Doctor at centre of trans row now faces gender row in Australia

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 25 Oct, 16:56 · Archive

A doctor who quit NHS Scotland after a gender tribunal has faced another gender row after taking a job in Australia.

Dr Beth Upton quit NHS Scotland and moved to Australia after a tribunal brought by nurse Sandie Peggie centred on her use of women's changing facilities. She is now working at Port Macquarie Base Hospital in New South Wales, registered as a female doctor under the name Lis, and began work in the emergency department in April.

According to reports, a middle-aged female patient was admitted to the hospital and raised concerns after identifying Dr Upton as biologically male. The patient's family claimed she feared being pressured into accepting the doctor as female. Her husband reportedly remained at her bedside throughout her stay.

Under Australia's self-identification laws, transgender doctors are under no legal or professional obligation to disclose their gender history or trans status to patients. The Daily Mail reports that Australian women's rights campaigners demanded the government investigate the incident after the country's health regulator listed Upton's sex as female.

How it is being reported

• NHS doctor at centre of Sandie Peggie trans row now ignites gender storm in AustraliaA doctor who quit NHS Scotland after being embroiled in a changing room row is now entangled in another gender debate — this time, on the other side of the world. Dr Beth Upton, the transgender medic at the heart of Sandie Peggie's employment tribunal, has relocated to Australia and is registered as a female doctor under the name Lis, according to reports. Born Theodore Upton, the biological male whose use of women's changing facilities at a Scottish hospital sparked a major gender dispute, has taken up a position at Port Macquarie Base Hospital in New South Wales, The Mail on Sunday claim.…GB News · 25 Oct, 16:38
• Doctor who quit the UK after Peggie trans row at centre of ANOTHER gender storm in Australia (and is now known as Lis!)The transgender doctor who quit Scotland for a new job in a sun-soaked Australian coastal resort after a high-profile tribunal is at the centre of another gender row.Daily Mail · 24 Oct, 18:03

In this story: Dr Beth Upton · Sandie Peggie · Port Macquarie Base Hospital · New South Wales · NHS Scotland · Scotland · Australia

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