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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Megan Howe

NHS nurse at London hospital faces the sack after calling transgender paedophile patient 'Mr'

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.

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