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Must US and UK women be forced to change clothes in front of men?

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29.08.2025

In 2017, there was a movement called "Me Too." It was about taking women seriously when we complained about being sexually harassed or abused by men.

Eight years later, that has all gone out the window. Women are in fact being forced to share intimate spaces like changing rooms and locker rooms with men who claim to be women.

Sandie Peggie is a nurse at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkaldy in Scotland, which is overseen by the National Health Service at Fife, a public body funded by taxpayers. One day, she found herself dealing with an unexpected period, bleeding through her uniform. This is an experience many women have had; it’s not unusual. She went into the women’s changing room to address it discretely. She did not expect to find a man in the room.

The man in question is a doctor named Beth (born Theodore) Upton. He calls himself a transgender woman. Peggie asked the man to leave. He complained to superiors that Peggie was discriminating against him.

The National Health Service at Fife suspended Peggie for harassment. And so, eight years after MeToo, women are now being suspended from work for complaining about the presence of men in women’s intimate spaces.

Peggie

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