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Sarah Ward

Transgender doctor had right to use female changing area, nurse’s manager told

The pair worked at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife (PA) - (PA Archive)

A health board’s equality and diversity department advised that it was a transgender doctor’s “right” to use a female changing room, an employment tribunal has heard.

Nurse Sandie Peggie, who has worked at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife, for 30 years, took the Fife health board and Dr Beth Upton to tribunal after being suspended following an incident on Christmas Eve 2023 in the female changing room.

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