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 decided to take the matter to court. She sued the NHS Fife in an employment tribunal. That matter began in February. The proceedings are still ongoing. Peggie has been cleared of misconduct, yet these proceedings continue to drag on, wasting taxpayer money. Peggie last took the stand for one month ago today. We await a verdict in the coming months.
An employment tribunal in Scotland has taken up weeks of time, over the course of several months and at the expense of the Scottish taxpayers, to decide whether or not women are permitted to have female-only spaces.
I have personally been in contact with lawyers and others in the U.K. who tell me that this is just going to have to play itself out because, in the words of one U.K. resident, the NHS “is now effectively rogue.”
This situation is not, of course, limited to Scotland, nor even to the U.K. American readers know that young women on the women’s swimming team at the University of Pennsylvania were forced to be naked in the presence of a man in their locker room 18 times per week throughout their 2021-2022 season. These young women, in their early twenties, were told by school administrators to stay silent. They were told that if they had any problems with the situation, that they needed to get mental health counseling.
Eight years after “Me Too,” women are being abused and gaslighted into believing that if we have a problem with men in our intimate spaces, we are actually the problem. We are being told that we must simply deal with men’s indecent exposure and voyeurism if they call themselves women.
We are told that this is just part of a left-right “culture war” against a “small community of marginalized people,” and that all opposition to transgender ideology comes from the MAGA right.
None of this is true. And there are rank-and-file Democrats (women and men) across the country who are not okay with this, including myself. In 2023, I published a book on the topic, and in August 2024, I asked then-Vice President Kamala Harris to say out loud at the Democratic National Convention that a woman is an adult human female person. Needless to say, she did not.
The unvarnished truth is that the transgender issue is not about civil rights, but rather about abusing women. Its primary target is women and girls, but it actually abuses all of us by lying about the material reality of sex.
And now, a nurse in Scotland is being forced to sue her government employer just for the right not to be forced to share a changing room with a man — to deal with her bleeding without having to do it in front of a man. Scottish taxpayers are being made to pay for courts to preside over such an absurd case because their National Health Service refuses to accept the truth.
One day, a reckoning will come.
Kara Dansky is author of The TERF Report, “The Abolition of Sex: How the ‘Transgender’ Agenda Harms Women and Girls,” and “The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls.”
