Trans doctor altered notes after changing room row, tribunal told
A landmark employment tribunal had previously been told that Beth Upton kept contemporaneous notes of interactions with Sandie Peggie, including claims that she had put patient safety at risk by failing to communicate with her senior colleague.
Peggie is suing the health board for discrimination and harassment due to having to share a single-sex changing room with Upton, who was born male but now identifies as a woman.
Peggie was suspended from work for several months after she confronted the doctor in women's changing rooms in Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, on Christmas Eve, 2023.
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