Thread by @ripx4nutmeg

The following thread is entirely written by Teresa, the woman who found her life-saving operation at Princess Grace Hospital had been cancelled because she requested single-sex nursing care. She asked for it to be posted this afternoon, and it contains excellent news: 1/16

I’m sending this message which I hope will travel far and wide through Nutmeg to offer my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given me support since Princess Grace Hospital cancelled my surgery, saying “We do not share your beliefs” 2/16

This followed my refusal to engage with pronouns, and my reporting of a Patient Dignity Breach by a male with a ‘gender identity’ 3/16

My beliefs are protected by the UK Equality Act 2010, as per the judgment in the landmark appeal case of Forstater v CGD Europe (2021) 4/16

I do not believe that a person can change sex. I will not use the language of gender ideology 5/16

Legions of people, of all political persuasions and backgrounds, coalesced to launch a truly spectacular campaign on my behalf. As a direct result, @HCAHospitalsUK (owner of Princess Grace Hospital) has offered me surgery at its Wellington Hospital in London on October 31
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The surgery will be with the original surgeons in attendance in a double robotic suite. I’ve also been assured of single sex nursing care and am receiving superb service from the Wellington. I have full confidence in my surgical and nursing team 7/16

I don’t know where to start to express my overwhelming gratitude to the thousands of people who fought so vigorously on my behalf. Thanks to you all, I now have the best possible chance of recovery and a full life 8/16

Thank you so much to the 17,500 people who signed the Citizen Go petition 9/16

Thank you so much to the amazing UK women’s rights activists who rushed to my aid and supported me (my allegiance to you will be lifelong) and who travelled to London to protest outside Princess Grace Hospital 10/16

Thank you so much to the thousands of people, worldwide, who wrote letters, emails and telephoned in protest. I am truly grateful to the redoubtable Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne for raising my issue with the Care Quality Commission and others 11/16

I’m not forgetting the many decent men, too, who felt a sense of outrage, because they had the imagination to realise what could happen to their mothers, sisters or daughters. Thank you 12/16

I’ve also had incredibly generous offers to crowdfund a discrimination claim. I have already opened a dialogue with HCA and stated that my primary objective is not damages or a judgment though 13/16

Instead, what I hope to achieve is a manageable variation in HCA nursing policy to centre the interests of female patients in accordance with UK standards, that is, the Regulation 10 of the CQC Fundamental Standards of Care and the Equality Act 2010 14/16

I would like to avoid litigation and give HCA the opportunity to resolve the situation in a positive and amicable way. My request is that HCA grants single-sex nursing care on request to women in all of its UK hospitals 15/16

I hope that HCA will give full consideration to my request to open negotiations on this front in the next few weeks, all rights reserved 16/16