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Trust pays £187k over trans changing room tribunal
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- PA Media Image caption, Seven nurses at Darlington Memorial Hospital have received damage payments of £187,000 from their employer
- An NHS trust has paid out £187,000 in damages after an employment tribunal found it harassed seven nurses by requiring them to share a changing room with a transgender woman.
- Judges ruled County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust created a "hostile environment" for nurses who objected to Rose Henderson, who was born male and identifies as a woman, using the single-sex changing rooms.
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PA Media Image caption, Seven nurses at Darlington Memorial Hospital have received damage payments of £187,000 from their employer
An NHS trust has paid out £187,000 in damages after an employment tribunal found it harassed seven nurses by requiring them to share a changing room with a transgender woman.
Judges ruled County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust created a "hostile environment" for nurses who objected to Rose Henderson, who was born male and identifies as a woman, using the single-sex changing rooms.
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