Chris

Dr Upton shouldn’t be there - the workplace health and safety regulations 1992 specify there should be separate facilities for men and women. Dr Upton is a man. He cannot self-ID into women’s spaces, but NHS Fife seems to have set that as its policy (which is against the law) and then suspended the nurse for expressing her legally held and expressed views (contra the Equality Act).

The tribunal has heard damning testimony that Upton was taking notes on his phone of every time the nurse left the changing room without acknowledging him (as evidence that she had a problem with him) before making a complaint when she did eventually confront him. She was damned if she did and damned if she didn’t. And when she did it was because she believed she was having a menstrual flood - exactly the sort of thing you don’t want to have to deal with in the presence of a man who had no legal right to be there. Furthermore the tribunal has heard that Upton spent weeks consulting with the BMA trying to find out what he would have to accuse the nurse of to get her suspended, the complaint about the changing room not having done the trick. He then accused her of compromising patient safety, an allegation for which the evidence is non-existent.

Incidentally, the case is exactly the same as the Isla Bryson case. Bryson was a man accessing female-only spaces (a women’s prison) on the basis of self-ID’ing as a woman. Theodore “Beth” Upton is a man accessing female-only spaces (a female changin room in a hospital) on the basis of self-ID’ing as a woman. In both cases, these men were indulged by a Scottish public sector body taking its steer from the SNP instead of the law.

The underlying problem is that the SNP, aided and abetted by the Scottish Greens, have infused self-ID into public sector policy in Scotland even though their self-ID law was ruled to breach the UK law. And that has opened the door for vexatious behaviour by narcissists like Theodore “Beth” Upton, a man who LARPs as a woman.