FFS Friday: Sandie Peggie
February 14, 2025
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Today’s FFS Friday honors Sandie Peggie, a nurse at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkaldy in Scotland. She was suspended for “harassment” after complaining about the presence of a man, Dr. Beth Upton, in the women’s changing room. She brought legal proceedings against the National Health Service and asked that they be made public, which they are.
If I wanted to get changed in front of a man, I would have went to the male changing rooms.
I have been doing my best to follow the story on X, where the account Tribunal Tweets has been live-posting about it. But it’s difficult to keep up! So I was grateful when a Substack piece by Andrew Doyle, helpfully titled “Men do not belong in women’s changing rooms,” showed up in my in-box on Thursday morning. One should not have to say that men do not belong in women’s changing rooms, but here we are.
Andrew states:
Trans-identified people are among the most powerful in society. They are endlessly celebrated by the media and celebrity classes. They are able to enforce speech codes against the will of the majority of the population in the knowledge that those in authority will support their demands. They are able to call on the police to harass those who dare to refuse to comply. Above all, they enjoy the status of victimhood in spite of being among the safest and least victimised of all demographics. Who knew that being oppressed was so appealing?
The proceedings have been going on for several days and are a bit dizzying. Among other things, Upton has said that he “is not male” and that the words male and female have “no defined agreed meaning in science.” He’s either lying or deluded. He is male, and the words male and female do have defined and agreed meanings in science. Nothing will change that. He has acknowledged that he continued using the women’s changing room, knowing that it made her uncomfortable.
Ms. Peggie has told the tribunal that she felt “embarrassed and intimidated” when he started getting changed in the women’s changing room on three occasions in 2023. She says that he sexually harassed her. When she first encountered him in the women’s room, she stepped out of the room and into the hall. She complained. Later in the year, she was wearing a bra and trousers when he entered the room. She says she quickly put her top back on and left because she felt embarrassed. She says that other female staff members have complained about him as well. She told him she felt it was unacceptable that he was in the women’s changing room and that it made her embarrassed and intimidated. She said, “If I wanted to get changed in front of a man, I would have went to the male changing rooms.”
Women should not have to put up with this, and I’m grateful to her for standing up and speaking out. Sandie, if you’re reading this, today’s’ FFS Friday is for you.
Until next time, please enjoy this exceptional design by the fabulous Louise Woodward-Styles.
There is a crowdfunder for Sandie Peggie, to provide her with the ability to take herself and her family on vacation when all this is over. (She says she's donating it to charity, but people are speaking with her daughter to make sure she uses at least some of it for herself.)
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/in-support-of-sandie-peggie
Peggie's lawyer, Naomi Cunningham, has skewered the living daylight out of Theodore Upton repeatedly:
Sandie Peggie opted out of your immersive role play. That's why you're angry. That one voice saying, "You're a man," breaks the spell.
Cunningham's summing up at the end of her questioning of Theodore is a thing of beauty:
That bullying of her by you was all about you being male and her being female--she was protesting against your presence, the invasion of her privacy. You were determined to punish her for standing up to you. You are taking steps to remove her from the workplace. You are disappointed she is still working. This is about punishing Sandie Peggie.
You told a pack of lies. Lies which could not only have lost her her job, but which could have had her struck off. It's all about controlling your female colleagues. You have done your best to end Sandie Peggie's 30-year unblemished career, to punish her for standing up to you.
There is a bully in this story. But it's not the 50-year-old nurse wanting a women's changing room to deal with a menstrual flood.
Even the judge demanded an answer to the fundamental question:
What is the sex of the respondent [Theodore Upton]?
Theodore's lawyer answered:
We need a skilled expert to deal with the question of sex.
BRAVO! and thank you, Sandie.