British nurse disciplined for ‘misgendering’ racist transgender pedophile sues NHS
A nurse is suing Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) for disciplining her after she referred to a transgender pedophile who hurled racial epithets at her as “mister.”
Jennifer Melle, a Ugandan native, was working the night shift at St. Helier Hospital when a convict entered the ward handcuffed and flanked by prison guards. The man, identified only as Patient X, was serving a prison sentence for grooming young boys online by pretending to be a teenage girl and convincing them to perform sexual acts. Standing over six feet tall, Patient X claims to be a woman. That night in Melle’s ward, he began shouting and upsetting other patients as he waited to be treated for a urinary issue.
While she conferred with a doctor on the phone outside his room, Patient X overheard Melle refer to him as “mister” and “he,” and shouted: “Do not call me mister, I am a woman!” Melle later noted that even if she subscribed to gender ideology, referring to Patient X as female would have denied him proper care because he required a catheter removed from his penis.
“This was a real-life medical scenario that required accurate terminology to avoid any doubt between medical professionals,” she said.
Entering his room, Melle found Patient X pacing up and down, incensed at her references to him as a male. She politely explained that calling him by female pronouns violated her Christian values but offered to refer to him by his name. That’s when Patient X began hurling racial abuse.
“Imagine if I called you ni**er?” Patient X screamed at her. “How about I call you ni**er? Yes, black ni**er!”
Melle warned Patient X that she would call security if he continued his abuse, at which point he lunged at her before being restrained by the guards. He demanded her name and NHS number so he could report her to the police for homophobia.
“It was terrifying,” she later recalled. “I’d never been called that word before. And I thought I was going to be attacked. The whole thing – the terrible racial abuse, the aggression, which all happened in front of patients and staff – left me traumatised. And I was only trying to help.”
Although she was traumatized by the event, Melle’s ward manager placed her under investigation for not respecting “equality and diversity.” Melle questioned why equality and diversity do not extend to her Christian beliefs, which preclude her from denying biological reality. But her point was ignored and the report on the investigation concluded that she had violated the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) Code of Conduct, which states that “in order to treat people as individuals and to uphold their dignity nurses should avoid making assumptions and should recognise diversity and individual choice.” The code also requires that nurses “not express ... personal beliefs (including political, religious or moral beliefs) in an inappropriate way. Therefore, although [Melle] felt unable to identity Patient X using the preferred pronouns due to her religion . . . it could be perceived that [Melle’s] actions could . . . be seen as a potential breach of the code” by “not respecting the patient’s preferred identity.”
Melle was summoned to a disciplinary hearing in October, slapped with a warning, and referred to the NMC for further disciplinary action. The NMC is the UK’s independent regulator of nursing and midwifery. She has since been denied overtime, which came as a financial blow to the mother of three. In her 12-year career, she had never received a complaint. She is now taking legal action against the NHS, which oversees St. Helier Hospital.
‘We thought we had seen it all’
“I was put at risk, but I am being treated like a criminal,” said Melle. “Sadly, if you put your head above the parapet and speak truthfully on these issues in the NHS, the risk is that you will be knocked down, punished severely and demoted. The message to me during the investigation was that I should put up with extreme racism and deny biological reality and my deeply held Christian beliefs for the sake of inclusivity.”
“I am devastated by how I have been treated and believe I am being institutionally abused, harassed, bullied and racially discriminated against,” she added. “Ever since I have expressed my Christian beliefs under extreme pressure, I have been a marked woman.”
Andrea Williams, head of the Christian Legal Centre that is supporting Melle with legal assistance, said the NHS has taken gender ideology to a “whole new disturbing level.”
“The NHS appears to remain captured by transgender ideology to the point it is prepared to back a convicted paedophile, who was clearly very disturbed and shouting racist comments, over the Christian nurse.
“We thought we had seen it all when it comes to controversial legal cases on these issues, but what Jennifer is experiencing at the hands of this ideology is off the scale and on a whole new disturbing level. Jennifer loves Jesus and is a talented nurse who should be supported and protected, not investigated and silenced. The trust cannot force compelled speech on their staff and an urgent U-turn and apology is needed.”
Gender ideology permeates healthcare
Melle is not the only nurse to be persecuted for failing to observe gender orthodoxy. The Daily Mail notes that a nurse named Sandie Peggie was placed under disciplinary investigation for a year after she objected to sharing a female changing room with Dr. “Beth” Upton, a man. Eight other nurses in Darlington are pursuing legal action after also being forced to share a changing room with a trans-identifying male.
But it’s not just female healthcare workers who are harmed—even female patients are sacrificed for gender ideology. Last year, London’s Metropolitan Police investigated a woman for a social media post in which she criticized a transgender doctor for “intimately examining female patients without their consent.” Dr. Kamilla Kamaruddin, a male doctor who declared himself a woman in 2015, wrote how his female patients—unaware that he is a man—allowed him to perform more intimate examinations when they believed him to be a woman. This admission prompted Maya Forstater, who heads the women’s rights group Sex Matters, to voice concerns about whether Dr. Kamaruddin’s patients were giving their informed consent. That triggered a lengthy police investigation into whether she was guilty of “malicious communications,” a crime punishable by up to two years in prison.
