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Our story has travelled far beyond Darlington Memorial Hospital. It has become a warning, not just to Britain, but now to America, of what happens when ideology overtakes common sense, safeguarding, and basic human dignity.
For more than two-and-a-half years my colleagues and I asked our NHS Trust (County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust) for something that should never have been up for debate: the right for women to have a female only changing room. Instead, we were told to “broaden our mindset,” get “educated,” and accept a biological male in our private space, or else.
Some of my colleagues, including survivors of abuse, were re-traumatised. All of us were ignored, intimidated and put at further risk.
When the employment tribunal ruled earlier this month that what happened to us was unlawful harassment, that our dignity had been violated, it should never have felt like a groundbreaking victory. But it did. And that fact alone is alarming to say the least.
My message to America is simple: do not wait until your institutions are captured before you start fighting back. Women should never have to go to court to defend biological reality or their right to singlesex spaces.
Source: I’m going to tell the world about Labour’s failure to act on radical trans ideology