Female defence worker's hidden toilet refuge

Defence worker Maria Kelly told tribunal she used a 'secret toilet' at Leonardo UK, below, over trans staff having access to women's facilities

- By Neil Pooran

A FEMALE engineer has told an employment tribunal she changed the "pattern" of toilets she would use at her defence company workplace in response to trans colleagues being able to access female facilities.

Maria Kelly also said a suggestion she would leak the name of trans colleagues as part of a crowdfunder for her legal action was "shocking" and something she would never do.

She has lodged a complaint alleging harassment, and direct and indirect discrimination, against her employer Leonardo UK at its facility in Edinburgh. The aerospace engineer had earlier told the tribunal she began using a "secret toilet" at her workplace after encountering a transgender colleague in a female bathroom.