{"id":225793,"date":"2025-10-26T03:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T03:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225793\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T03:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T03:31:30","slug":"darlington-nurse-says-trans-colleague-put-her-in-panic-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225793\/","title":{"rendered":"Darlington nurse says trans colleague put her in &#8216;panic mode&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tribunal heard from another nurse, Jane Peveller, who has been working at the hospital since 1997 and said she was uncomfortable with Rose being in the changing rooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is among 26 hospital workers who signed a &#8220;letter of concern&#8221; about Rose&#8217;s behaviour, which included allegations Rose was stopping hormone treatment to conceive with their partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Describing when she was in the changing room with Rose, on a separate occasion, Ms Peveller said she felt &#8220;overwhelmed with anxiety that a man was stood next to me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked by Mr Cheetham if it was the presence of someone she considered to look &#8220;very male&#8221; rather than anything in particular they did, she replied &#8220;yes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Peveller said, before signing the letter she had overheard &#8220;rumours&#8221; from a colleague Rose had stopped taking female hormones and was trying to &#8220;inseminate&#8221; their female partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Cheetham asked if Ms Peveller had verified this rumour before signing it, and she denied doing so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He asked why it &#8220;did not trouble&#8221; her that she was putting her name to a letter &#8220;unequivocally&#8221;, without checking whether the rumour was true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She maintained it was &#8220;because it was correct&#8221; and said Rose was a &#8220;sexually active biological man [who was] stood next to me while I had my trousers down&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tribunal heard from another nurse, Jane Peveller, who has been working at the hospital since 1997 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-225793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}