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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

"Darlington Nurses" vs County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust Tribunal Thread 9

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ThreeWordHarpy · 16/01/2026 12:36

Thread 1, 7-Oct to 23-Oct
Thread 2, 23-Oct to 28-Oct
Thread 3, 28-Oct to 29-Oct
Thread 4, 29-Oct to 31-Oct
Thread 5, 31-Oct to 04-Nov
Thread 6, 04-Nov to 05-Nov
Thread 7, 05-Nov to 11-Nov
Thread 8, 11-Nov to 16-Jan (last thread with the schedule and abbreviations)

Five nurses working at Darlington Memorial Hospital filed a legal case against their employer, an NHS trust, for sexual harassment and sex discrimination. The nurses objected to sharing the women’s changing facilities with a male colleague, Rose, who identifies as female. The hearing was held between 20th October and 11th November and was live tweeted by Tribunal Tweets who have comprehensive information regarding this case on their substack, including archives of the twitter threads, lists of people involved and press releases.

At the time this thread was started, the judgment had not yet been published on the Courts website but was widely reported in the media that the NHS was found to have discriminated against the nurses, but the claims against Rose were not upheld.

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sohard · 25/06/2026 15:27

moto748e · 24/06/2026 18:02

The idea of x hundred Trusts all individually writing their own (virtually identical) policies did seem absolutely crazy, I must say. Has no MP every queried this?

It seems like such an inefficient way of doing things. A crazy amount of duplication of effort.

Easytoconfuse · 01/07/2026 15:57

theilltemperedamateur · 24/06/2026 19:00

Ah, yes, forgot about all the other policies! I wonder if they could just use the policies they had in place 15 years ago? I suppose some of those might be outdated now, though

Some things used not to need to be said at all, like 'using single-sex services for the opposite sex is not allowed' or 'patients who request a same-sex HCP should not be treated by an opposite-sex HCP in disguise'.

How about tearing up the 'trans' guidelines and replacing them with a) don't bully trans people, and b) if staff or patients refuse to use services for their own sex, try to provide a gender-neutral alternative if at all possible'?

What did I miss out?

That trans people shouldn't bully people who won't tell them they're brave, fearless and definitely female?

Easytoconfuse · 01/07/2026 15:58

DrBlackbird · 24/06/2026 20:33

And if they can’t or won’t admit to being able to tell the difference, they should not be working in the NHS.

I will never go to heaven because my first thought was that they could get SpecSavers to sponsor it.

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