The NHS could become flooded with thousands of discrimination claims from female staff after a tribunal found it has wrongly been allowing trans women to use single-sex toilets.
An NHS employee in Leeds successfully sued health bosses this week, saying she suffered discrimination and harassment because transgender colleagues were told they could use single-sex facilities, including lavatories and showers.
Her case centred on policies adopted by NHS England in 2017, which stated that transgender colleagues could use facilities according to the gender they identified as.
While she did not encounter transgender women (biological males) in the facilities she used, Leeds Employment Tribunal upheld her
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