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[Tribunal Tweets @tribunaltweets]

We hope to be reporting on Peggie vs Royal College of Nursing from Dundee Employment Tribunal today, 23 September. Peggie is taking action against the RCN, her union, for failure to support her during her employment dispute with Fife Health Board.

[SEEN in Health @SEENinHealth]

This should concern every public-sector employer, including the NHS.

Staff should not arrive at work to find themselves pressured to endorse a contested political or ideological position.

Public services are there to serve the public, not to provide a campaigning platform for employees.

There need to be much firmer boundaries. Ideological campaigning has no place in the workplace, particularly in politically impartial public services.

[SEEN in Health @SEENinHealth]

National Inclusion Week 2026: Where's sex in the conversation?

https://t.co/LihOiFRIE9

This year's theme is "Build Trust. Navigate Change." But how do we build trust and navigate change in the workplace when the protected characteristic of sex is misrepresented?

Workplaces will rightly showcase networks for race, disability, faith, LGBTQ+ colleagues and more this week. But look closely and one protected characteristic is consistently missing: SEX.

NHS staff networks talk about "gender" but gender is not a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010, SEX is.
They are legally distinct, and conflating them has real consequences: for safeguarding, for single-sex spaces and services, for data accuracy in patient records, and for staff who need their sex-based rights recognised and represented.

You cannot build trust on a foundation that misrepresents the law. And you cannot navigate change fairly while one protected characteristic is left unspoken for.

SEEN in Health exists because no one else was doing this. We're the network for the protected characteristic of sex, open to all NHS staff who believe biology matters in health care.

If your organisation is marking National Inclusion Week, ask the question: is sex actually represented, or just assumed to be covered by "gender"?

Find out more & join us at: https://t.co/9Dxa6vkEHW

#NationalInclusionWeek
#SEENinHealth #ProtectedCharacteristics
#NHS
#SexMatters

[SEEN in Health @SEENinHealth]

What Nadia Whittome is proposing is changing the Equality Act to an Australian-style model, where men have all the rights and women have none. We have already seen the consequences of conflicts over that approach in the Sall Grover case.

At some point we have to be prepared to say something very simple: there are limitations to identifying as the opposite sex.

Identity cannot give someone an unlimited right of access to the opposite sex's spaces.

Not the changing room your daughter uses.

Not the female ward where your confused elderly mother is at her most vulnerable.

Not rape crisis services.

Not female prisons.

Not female psychiatric wards.

Why have we spent years finding it almost unthinkable to say that someone may identify as they wish, but there are boundaries to what that identity can require of everybody else?

Women should not lose their boundaries because somebody else identifies across them.

State the boundaries and stop dismantling women's sex-based rights in an attempt to pretend there are no limitations to identity.

[SEEN in Health @SEENinHealth]

Almost 100 sex crimes were reported at Scottish swimming pools and leisure centres over three years in mixed sex facilities. 81 of the victims were female, with children among those targeted.

None were reported in single-sex facilities in the FOI dataset.

Meanwhile in the NHS:

Women's Rights Network found 6,539 rapes and sexual assaults reported in hospitals over less than four years. (Women's Rights Network hospital investigation – When We Are At Our Most Vulnerable)

Women are at their most vulnerable in healthcare. They may be ill, weak, confused, undressed or unable to protect themselves.

We already know sexual assaults happen in hospitals.

Single-sex spaces are a safeguard. We should be strengthening them, not removing them. https://t.co/iAX7e8Iqzq

[SEEN in Publishing @SEENPublishing]

And @jan_murray is reporting how the NHS has paid lip service to FWS but implemented no real change. @SEENinHealth 's research demonstrates this. https://t.co/TDUuWh3hVt

[GB News @GBNEWS]

‘They cannot breastfeed and it is taking the baby away from the mother.’

Co-founder of Biology in Medicine Dr Alice Hodkinson is in despair at a ‘male lactation expert’ attending a women’s conference and discussing how men can lactate.

[SEEN in Health @SEENinHealth]

👀It’s disappointing, but not surprising, that NHS England shelved the release of single sex spaces guidance last week. It may now be quietly slipped out just before or during the bank holiday📉
Honestly, we don’t care when they release it, we just want them to release it. The guidance is already signed off. Women’s rights and lawful practice shouldn’t depend on timing games ⚖️

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

A female detective has been sacked for gross misconduct and placed on a blacklist alongside killer and rapist officers after calling out her force’s woke ideology.

Detective Constable Rachel Fletcher was reported by male colleagues for saying ‘c**ks in frocks’ while criticising Northumbria Police guidelines that permit biological men who identify as women to insist on being strip-searched by a female officer.

The veteran child protection and family liaison officer — who played a key role in bringing prolific paedophile Ross Jackson to justice, resulting in a 23-year prison sentence in February — was shocked to be fired in July.

Northumbria Police said she had brought the force into disrepute with comments about men that were ‘sexist, inappropriate and offensive’, as well as the single ‘transphobic’ remark.

After working her way up from a civilian post to become a detective during a 20-year career, Ms Fletcher has now been barred from policing.

Male colleagues also told a disciplinary panel they were ‘offended’ after overhearing Ms Fletcher joke with a female officer that all men should be subject to a 9pm curfew to prevent night-time sex attacks.

Ms Fletcher is claiming unfair dismissal.

Read more in the Daily Mail 👇

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Not too long ago, stating that biological sex was real was a career-ending act of bravery.

Kathleen Stock was hounded out of her university job. Maya Forstater had to take her former employer to a landmark tribunal.

Kemi Badenoch and Rosie Duffield were told they were on the wrong side of history.

Our public bodies, charities, political figures, and sections of the media all lined up to condemn these women as bigots.

That establishment was wrong. The Supreme Court settled it beyond doubt: when the Equality Act says woman, it means a biological woman.

Every woman who was targeted for saying that sex means biological sex has since been vindicated. An apology is owed to each and every one of them, although I won’t hold my breath.

The EHRC's Code of Practice, which took effect this week, provides clear guidance to organisations on how single-sex spaces and services, like changing rooms, should operate on the basis of biological sex.

This is hugely welcome, particularly for the countless women and girls who have been denied their legal rights for so long. It is a tribute to the tireless campaigners who fought for years to get here, despite the Labour Government’s delays and attempts to water it down.

However, we should be clear that the Code does not change the law. All the Code does is provide guidance on how to follow the law.

Those who try to block the Code will not block the law that sits behind it. The Green, Lib Dem and Labour MPs who are pretending otherwise should know better.

Yet more than a year after the Supreme Court ruling, compliance is still falling short and there has been no accountability for the many institutions who have put women at risk of harm because they misunderstood the law.

Take the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Even after the ruling, they continued disciplinary investigations against the Darlington Nurses, who did nothing more than ask for single-sex changing rooms.

They have not issued an apology for getting things so badly wrong.

Then there's NHS England, which has still not updated guidance that allows men to be placed on female hospital wards simply because they identify as women.

That policy is unlawful, yet it remains in force today - putting the safety, privacy and dignity of female patients at risk.

Things are no better in the prison system, where violent male inmates are still being housed in women’s prisons, where they share communal spaces with vulnerable women.

It has been a legal requirement to house male and female prisoners separately since 1823, but apparently that doesn’t apply if the man says he is a woman.

For too long our public institutions treated radical gender ideology as if it were gospel and treated women's rights as something to be tossed aside in the face of this new religion.

The Code of Practice is an important tool in reversing the spread of that ideology, but alone it is not enough.

Bridget Phillipson needs to get a grip and hold government bodies to account if they refuse to uphold the law.

Our institutions must establish why they were so vulnerable to being misled and how they will prevent the next faddish ideology that comes along from taking root.

We need institutions that we can trust, not ones that are so quick to abandon common sense and the law.

That is the least that women and the wider public deserve.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

🚨 BREAKING >> Staff at an NHS trust received an email on Wednesday telling them there would be “no immediate changes” to its policies following new statutory EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces.

Those policies allow men who identify as women to be placed on women’s hospital wards - and to use toilets, showers and changing rooms intended for female staff.

A public governor has been challenging the policies for more than 18 months, including raising his concerns with the EHRC and even publicly objecting to the reappointment of the Trust’s chair.

Yet nothing has changed.

Truly one of the most extraordinary stories I’ve worked on this year. My latest @Telegraph

Link below 👇

[C-XX @BinaryBeliever]

@Gaynotqueer1 The sign behind him “sexual safety support service” I don’t think i have ever seen a bigger and uglier contradiction in all my life 🤢

[Darlington Nursing Union @DarlingtonUnion]

This brilliant map from the @SEENinHealth team shows the extent of how many NHS Trusts continue to break the law 👇🏻

https://t.co/RMipNARIzp

[C-XX @BinaryBeliever]

@triggerpod @ThePosieParker @HelenWebberley KJK did really well, particularly in letting her speak amd expose how dishonest and disgraceful she is! The debate i want to see is Webberley and @Psychgirl211; She would wipe the medical floor with Helen “Frankenstein” Webberley

[Teacake 💚🤍 💜#179 @2022Teacake]

I like to think that KK was employing “operation Let Them Speak” for a large proportion of the debate.
Webberly speaks nonsense. I feel sorry for any parents who are desperate enough to go to her for help.

Bravo @ThePosieParker 💜
Thank you @triggerpod 🫡

[HumanGayMale @HumanGayMale]

#LetThemSpeak

[SEEN in Health @SEENinHealth]

It really is that simple.

The law is clear. Now let's see leadership, accountability and consistent implementation across every NHS Trust and Health Board.

Patients and staff deserve the lawful single-sex facilities they should always have had.

@DHSCgovuk @NHSEngland @NHSScotland @NHSWales @EHRC @YvetteCooperMP @bphillipsonMP @AConstance23 @Jeremy_Miles @SexMattersOrg @ForWomenScot

[SEEN in Health @SEENinHealth]

"Put something on your website. Tell your staff. Use common sense." Well said @MForstater

It really is that straightforward.

The law is clear. NHS organisations should now be updating their policies, informing staff and ensuring lawful single-sex facilities for patients and staff are consistently provided.

SEEN in Health will be watching implementation.

@DHSCgovuk @NHSEngland @NHSScotland @NHSWales @EHRC @YvetteCooperMP @bphillipsonMP @AConstance23 @Jeremy_Miles @SexMattersOrg @ForWomenScot

[SEEN in Health @SEENinHealth]

If this tells us anything, it's that performative statements don't survive legal scrutiny.

The NHS has spent years issuing reassuring statements while too many organisations failed to provide lawful single-sex facilities for patients and staff. The law didn't change yesterday. Leadership didn't happen.

Now that the EHRC Code is in force, there are no more excuses. Every NHS Trust and Health Board should immediately review, publish and implement legally compliant policies.

If they don't, they should expect challenge, scrutiny and regulatory action. @DHSCgovuk @NHSEngland @NHSScotland @NHSWales @EHRC @YvetteCooperMP @bphillipsonMP @AConstance23 @SexMattersOrg @ForWomenScot @NHSResolution

[Biology in Medicine @biologyinmed]

People cannot change sex, it is no good chanting mantras and hoping they become true.