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Sarah Ward

Nurse called transgender doctor ‘weirdo’ and ‘it’, tribunal told

Nurse Sandie Peggie was suspended after she complained about having to share a changing-room with transgender medic Dr Beth Upton (Andrew Milligan/PA) - (PA Wire)

A former friend of nurse Sandie Peggie has alleged that she referred to a transgender doctor as “it” and “asked for pictures of that weirdo”, a tribunal heard.

Ms Peggie was suspended after she complained about having to share a changing-room with transgender medic Dr Beth Upton at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on Christmas Eve 2023.

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