The female nurses need to be more inclusive
Heads men win, tails women lose.
NHS chiefs are facing landmark legal action after 26 female hospital nurses protested about being forced to share a women’s changing room with a transgender colleague who is biologically male.
The women complained that the transgender nurse – who has not had gender reassignment surgery – had taken a ‘keen interest’ in female staff when they were getting undressed. They say they have found the situation ‘intimidating and upsetting’.
In a formal complaint, the nurses say they were stunned after the ‘sexually active’ trans nurse admitted to trying for a baby with a female partner and [that he] had stopped taking female hormones. But a human resources manager at the hospital trust allegedly said that the female nurses need to ‘be more inclusive’, ‘broaden their mindset’ and ‘be educated and attend training’.
The female nurses have to be so much more inclusive that they’re perfectly happy to have a gruesome piggy entitled man openly watch them take their clothes off. They have to broaden their mindset to the point that they don’t mind having this sadistic dude in their changing room.
Six of the nurses are taking legal action at an employment tribunal against the NHS trust in the North East for alleged sexual harassment and sexual discrimination in what is thought to be the first case of its kind. One of the nurses told The Mail on Sunday: ‘We don’t feel safe because we strip down to our underwear and [the individual] doesn’t just stay by his locker. ‘He walks around the changing room in his boxer shorts.’
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In March, 26 nurses wrote to management saying that the transgender nurse ‘has made no secret’ of the fact that ‘he has stopped taking female hormones and is trying to inseminate his female partner’. They added: ‘We do not consider it appropriate to have a sexually active biological male sharing our changing facilities.’
They did not receive a written response but say there was an ‘impromptu meeting’ at which an HR manager told the ward manager the female nurses ‘need to compromise’. The HR manager told them to ‘be more inclusive’, ‘broaden their mindset’ and ‘be educated and attend training’, according to a second complaint letter sent by the nurses in April.
They have to smile, shut up, spread their legs, and let him do whatever he wants.
I would dearly like to know the substance of that proposed “compromise”.
How such a complete sham fooled so many people, I will never understand.
Steven: a compromise according to P J O’Rourke’s definition (“being bitten in half by a shark is a compromise with being swallowed whole”), I suspect.
“What’s that fly doing in my soup?!”
— “Adding protein – that’s gonna cost you extra.”
According to the article, one of the nurses said he came up to her and repeatedly asked if she was about to get changed. That’s as creepy and inappropriate as fuck, especially since he was just wearing scrubs (top) and boxers at the time. Even if the hospital felt having a sexually active male who had stopped taking feminising hormones in the same changing room as women was appropriate, that behaviour was not. Not appropriate if you’re a man, a woman, or a transperson. The HR department and senior managers were just showing utter contempt for their female staff.
That little* detail stood out for me too, Rob. They just can’t help giving the game away.
*’little’ as in giant red flag.
Maybe you all know this, but “The Cannes Film Festival’s best actress award has been given to a man for the first time.” (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trans-woman-karla-sofia-gascon-185812235.html). To be honest, it didn’t say “man”; it said “trans-woman”, but I’ve fixed the error.