Trans row nurse tells tribunal she ‘felt discriminated against’ by her union

Sandie Peggie accuses RCN of failing to adequately support her in dispute over sharing women’s changing room with trans doctor

Sandie Peggie worked for NHS Fife for more than 30 years Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

A nurse who objected to sharing a changing room with a transgender doctor has said she felt “discriminated against” by her union after raising the complaint.

Sandie Peggie, who worked for NHS Fife for more than 30 years, won a partial victory against her employer after a tribunal in December 2025, when a judge upheld her harassment claim against the health board but dismissed claims of discrimination, indirect discrimination and victimisation.

Now Peggie has begun a new tribunal proceeding, this time against her trade union, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which she accuses of failing to adequately support her in her original employment dispute. The union denies all allegations.

Giving evidence on the first day of the tribunal, Peggie said she had originally spoken to her RCN representative, Stuart Fraser, in January 2024 after being placed on special leave by NHS Fife. She told the tribunal: “I felt like he thought I was being disciplined because I had done something wrong.”

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