Transgender colleague brought nurse to tears

SHE IS ONE OF EIGHT STAFF MAKING LEGAL CLAIM AGAINST HEALTH TRUST

- By KRISTY DAWSON, and TOM WILKINSON

A NURSE has shared her distress at an employment tribunal, recounting how she broke down in tears after a transgender colleague allegedly asked her three times if she was changing from her work clothes in the changing rooms.

Staff nurse Karen Danson is one of eight nurses taking County Durham and DarlingtonNHS Foundation Trust to an employment tribunal.

The group of nurses are challenging the health trust following the decision to allow their colleague, Rose Henderson, who was born male but identifies as a woman, to use the women’s changing facilities at Darlington Memorial Hospital in Darlington.