Craig Williams<\/span>BBC Scotland<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Fife nurse Sandie Peggie says she will not give up her legal fight “any time soon” as she confirmed she will appeal the findings of her employment tribunal.<\/p>\n Ms Peggie was suspended from her job in a Kirkcaldy hospital’s A&E department after she complained about Dr Beth Upton – a biological male who identifies as a woman – using a female changing room.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, Ms Peggie won a claim for harassment against NHS Fife but other allegations of discrimination and victimisation were dismissed.<\/p>\n Ms Peggie’s solicitor confirmed they would lodge the appeal in the new year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Speaking for the first time in public at a media conference in Dundee, Ms Peggie said she felt compelled to continue with her case.<\/p>\n She said: “I am not a campaigner and had never heard of the phrase ‘gender critical’ when I first raised complaints over two years ago about my employer’s decision to allow men into female only changing rooms.”<\/p>\n “I just knew instinctively that it wasn’t right that women were expected to undress in front of men in private spaces and I still believe this to be the case.<\/p>\n She added: “Whilst I am delighted that the tribunal was critical of Fife Health Board and found they harassed me, their judgement I believe falls short in many respects and that is why I certainly won’t be giving up this legal fight any time soon.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Her solicitor, Margaret Gribbon, described some of the findings as “problematic” and said they would make it harder for women to raise complaints in the future.<\/p>\n “The judgement places responsibility on female employees to raise complaints if they feel uncomfortable about sharing single sex spaces with men,” she said. <\/p>\n “This ignores industrial realities. When Sandie objected, she was suspended, subjected to an unreasonably lengthy disciplinary investigation and falsely accused of patient care concerns. <\/p>\n “It then emerged during the hearing that FHB then embarked on an archaeological dig to find material to discredit her,” she added.<\/p>\n Ms Gribbon said work was already underway on the appeal and it will be submitted to the Employment Appeal Tribunal in early January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Earlier on Thursday, it was announced the tribunal judgement has been amended following complaints a quote used in it was “made up”.<\/p>\n One of Ms Peggie’s most high-profile supporters, campaigner Maya Forstater, had pointed out that a reference in the 312-page judgement to her own case against the Centre for Global Development Europe was “completely made up”.<\/p>\n The Peggie ruling originally stated the judgement in Ms Forstater’s case emphasised that the Equality Act does not create “a hierarchy of protected characteristics.”<\/p>\n On the social media platform X, Ms Forstater posted a screenshot of the text from the tribunal and said: “One of the many things wrong with the Sandie Peggie judgement.<\/p>\n “This ‘quote’ from my judgement doesn’t come from my judgement. It is completely made up.”<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/bbcdotcom\/web\/20251203-121739-f954f14c69-web-2.35.1-2\/grey-placeholder.png\")
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