3 h. ago Nurse cleared of misconduct in trans doctor changing room row in Scotland

NHS Fife says there is insufficient evidence against Sandie Peggie as her tribunal case against the trust resumesA nurse who objected to sharing a female changing room with a transgender woman doctor has been cleared of gross misconduct allegations.Sandie Peggie, who has worked as a nurse for the health board for more than 30 years, is claiming she was subject to unlawful harassment under the Equality Act when she was expected to share a changing room with a trans woman, Dr Beth Upton. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Nurse who complained about trans doctor in locker room cleared of misconduct

Nurse Sandie Peggie did not want to share a changing room with Dr Beth Upton

Society

12 h. ago Nurse suspended after complaining about doctor using female changing room is cleared of gross misconduct

Sandie Peggie was suspended after she complained about having to share a changing room with transgender medic Dr Beth Upton at the NHS Fife hospital where they both worked.

Society

13 h. ago Nurse at centre of row over trans doctor cleared of gross misconduct

It comes as the employment tribunal brought by Sandie Peggie resumes.

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13 h. ago Nurse Sandie Peggie cleared of gross misconduct in trans doctor changing room row

Sandie Peggie has been cleared of gross misconduct the day before her employment tribunal resumes.

Events

2 w. ago 'Ridiculous' Wimbledon rule saw female players have to go braless before change

Wimbledon's strict dress code has been well-documented over the years, and it once led to a bizarre situation where female players were forced to remove their bras

Sport

2 w. ago Doctor Who legend issues major complaint about BBC series in 'terribly worried' admission

Fans are currently waiting to find out when the show will return for another series

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2 w. ago Glastonbury's 'forgotten' first female headliner looks unrecognisable 36 years after game

Hailing from New York, the musician earned recognition when four of her singles entered the UK top 40 in the mid-80s.

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2 w. ago Olympics chief reveals plans for transgender policy change and pledges to 'protect the female category'

Kirsty Coventry revealed that a working group was being set up to determine a new policy after 'overwhelming support' amid raging controversy over transgender boxers.

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3 w. ago Meet the woman who became a United Airlines pilot at 50 after 20 years as a journalist and brand executive

Carole Hopson today is one of only around 150 professional Black female pilots in the United States

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3 w. ago Perfumed With Mint review – poetic Egyptian stoner flick reveals inertia of failed revolution

Debut from Muhammad Hamdy, who won an Emmy for his cinematography, features dramatic chiaroscuros and panning shots to rival AntonioniMuhammad Hamdy’s debut feature is what you might call an Egyptian stoner flick – if Cheech and Chong were a pair of exhausted, poetry-spouting revolutionaries roaming a broken-down necropolis. Hashish is the means of dulling painful memories and, apparently, preventing subcutaneous eruptions of mint, in this distinctive and stubborn-headed post-Arab-Spring reckoning which comes with magic-realist overtones.Bahaa (Alaa El Din Hamada) is a disaffected doctor who, on hearing a woman’s complaint about being unable to stop her dead son manifesting, passes her a joint. Wandering through a set of decrepit apartments in a becalmed nocturnal purgatory, pursued by sprinting shadows and bemoaning his lost love Dalal, it seems he and his friend Mahdy (Mahdy Abo Bahat) have joined the ranks of the ghosts themselves. These ruins are psychological as much as anythin...

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4 w. ago Trans ruling has 'changed landscape' of tribunal after nurse suspended in single

The ruling stated said the words “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex, which has implications for access to single-sex spaces.

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