Beth Upton: Activists made my life miserable, says trans row doctor

I’ve seen Twitter and it was so nasty, I really feel for Beth, she’s done nothing at all wrong. I can’t believe what they have said about her never mind done.

I’ve seen the doxxing and slander, absolutely unbelievable what people are link these days to trans people. It makes me angry this is our country now.

I just caught up with the transcript, and Sandie Peggie’s lawyer, Naomi Cunningham, is a vile nasty woman who should be disbarred. 

Misgendering Dr Upton, *comparing her to a torturer in 1984*, basically bringing all the grace and tact of a twitter troll to the courtroom. 

It’s plain this case is about extending Ms Peggie’s campaign of harassment and every lawyer who has engaged in conducting it should face sanction from their professional body. 

Gratuitously deadnaming Beth in court, gratuitously misgendering, likening her to a torturer, bringing twitter troll and general ignoramus to give ‘expert’ evidence by accusing all trans people of being fetishists (which even if it wasn’t debunked bollocks Forstater is not competent to give such evidence) there is absolutely no way any of this is necessary to make their arguments to the court. 

Unprofessional, bullying, vindictive [redacteds]

Poor woman, she doesn’t any hatred.

This poor woman did absolutely nothing except go about her life, do her job and exist.

Transphobes and anti-trans activists are the worst of the worst.

She’s not a biological woman and the nurse is well within her rights to ask not to be forced to change in front of her!

While it is absolutely unacceptable for anyone to face harassment, contrary to other comments on this thread I have to say the fault here lies with NHS Fife.

The Workplace (Health, Safety, and Welfare) Regulation 1992 stipulates that workplaces have to provide separate male and female changing facilities.

Dr Upton is male, biologically and certainly at the time of the dispute legally (as they did not have a GRC).

A female nurse, and victim of sexual assault (by a GP) was forced to change with someone obviously male, in contravention of the law. And when they complained, as they clearly should have the right to, found themselves harassed for it. I’m surprised by the apparent complete lack of concern for her and her wellbeing on this thread.

In terms of pronouns, Dr Upton is testifying that they are not male, an astonishing position for a doctor. Given the centrality of the reality of sex to this case, it’s quite appropriate that counsel for the claimant should insist on using accurate sex pronouns.

The employer, NHS Fife, really has handled this terribly. You can’t just pretend the law says what you’d prefer it to say. Single sex spaces exist for a reason. There were surely other ways to accommodate Dr Upton.

This was a workplace disagreement and should have been a workplace dispute, where workplace protections and rights come into play.

Instead, this person has had their life turned upside down by extremists.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/10/im-biologically-female-insists-trans-nhs-doctor-born-male/

>”The term biologically female or biologically male is completely nebulous. It has no defined or agreed meaning in science, as far as I’m aware. I’m not a robot, so I am biological and my identity is female. Without wanting to appeal to the dictionary too much, I’m biologically female.”

Our politicians are sleepwalking into the same mess the US is in if they let this sort of hate campaigning continue. Just a reminder that no sexual assault or similar crime at all occurred here, the idea of such a thing is complete fiction at this point to try and create a social bogeyman. Actual sexual assaults by colleagues don’t get this sort of minute by minute national coverage. This poor doctor has done absolutely nothing to deserve having their life picked apart like this.