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What do you do when your own union acts in lockstep with your employers or HR on grievances with a political undercurrent? Nurse Sandie Peggie, an intensive care nurse with 30 years’ experience—I have mentioned her before—was suspended from her role because she objected to getting undressed in front of a male resident doctor who identifies as a woman. Nurse Peggie is now suing her own union, the Royal College of Nursing, for its failure to defend her because it supported the NHS trust’s trans-inclusive policies, so she could hardly have the RCN as adequate representatives accompanying her. As an aside, Nurse Peggie at last won her employment tribunal when the NHS Fife trust dropped its charges of gross misconduct allegations, having wasted a huge amount of taxpayers’ resources—that happened only last night, so congratulations to her.