An NHS nurse faces losing her job after referring to a transgender patient in her care as “Mr” and refusing to use she/her pronouns, saying doing so was against her Christian beliefs.

Jennifer Melle, 40, was working as a nurse at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton in Sutton. When discussing the care of her patient — who was a convicted paedophile and an inmate at a high-security prison — she referred to them using a male pronoun and title.

The patient, referred to as Patient X, took issue with the title, to which Ms Melle responded: “sorry I cannot refer to you as ‘her’ or ‘she’, as it’s against my faith and Christian values, but I can call you by your name”.

Ms Melle claims the patient then subjected her to racial and religious aggravated assault, lunging at her and repeatedly us

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