Scots nurse Sandie Peggie wins trans row tribunal against NHS

Sandie Peggie was harassed by NHS Fife in a row over sharing a staff changing room with a trans colleague, an employment tribunal has found in a landmark legal ruling. The nurse, who has been working for 30 years, took the health board to a tribunal after refusing to share a Kirkcaldy hospital changing room with Dr Beth Upton.

Peggie was suspended by NHS Fife bosses after she complained about Dr Upton using the female changing room at the A&E department in Victoria Hospital following a row in December 2023. She argued that having to get changed beside Dr Beth Upton amounted to unlawful harassment under the Equality Act, reports the Daily Record .

NHS guidance at the time stated said transgender men and women were allowed to use the changing rooms that aligned with their declared gend