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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tom Wilkinson

Nurses who changed with trans colleague suffered harassment, tribunal rules

Nurses from Darlington Memorial Hospital (left to right) Annice Grundy, Lisa Lockey, Karen Danson, Bethany Hutchison and Tracey Hooper, pose for a photo outside the Civil and Family Courts and Tribunals Centre in Newcastle - (PA Archive)

A group of nurses who complained about a trans colleague using single-sex changing rooms suffered harassment which violated their dignity and created “a hostile, intimidating, humiliating and degrading environment for them”, an employment tribunal has ruled.

Eight members of the Day Surgery Unit at Darlington Memorial Hospital brought a claim against County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust after Rose Henderson, who was born male but identifies as a woman, was allowed to use the women’s changing facilities.

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