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Scottish Express Reported to the Police for Referring to Transgender Dr Beth Upton as a Man

by Richard Eldred
16 February 2025 3:00 PM

Trans activists say they have reported the Scottish Daily Express to police for “harassment” after the newspaper referred to Dr Beth Upton as a man in its coverage of an employment tribunal brought by nurse Sandie Peggie. Here’s an excerpt:

The veteran nurse is suing NHS Fife and Dr Upton in a landmark case after being suspended for objecting to his presence in the female changing rooms at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy on Christmas Eve, 2023.

The medic is biologically male and does not have a gender recognition certificate to legally change gender. The judge in the case has previously ruled that he can be called a man, although he acknowledged it would be a “courtesy” to use his preferred pronouns.

However, Ms Peggie and her legal team have referred to Dr Upton as a man throughout the hearings, while NHS Fife’s lawyers have used female pronouns. Quite apart from any reasons of accuracy and gender critical feminism, this can make reports difficult to follow for readers.

On X, formerly Twitter, the SEEN Police Official Open Public Network – a collective account set up to “challenge hate” and said to be a “malign impersonator” of Sex Equality and Equity Network – said it had reported the Scottish Daily Express to Police Scotland.

It said: “We have submitted a second report to Police Scotland of targeted harassment of Dr Beth Upton by the Scottish Daily Express editor, Ben Borland. This links to our first report, which Police Scotland are currently REFUSING to deal with. In this new incident, Borland explains… his reasons for intentional and gratuitous misgendering and deadnaming, are ‘simply stating a fact’ and other well-worn ‘gender critical’ tropes. Yet, he is fully aware he is causing harassment and distress. This is going to end badly for @PoliceScotland if they avoid dealing with this.

They are already in breach of the Equality Act and Public Sector Equality Duty. We are ready to apply for judicial review if this continues any longer. We will not allow Police Scotland to go on excluding the trans section of the public from the protection of a police service – which is effectively what they are doing, and have been doing since their infamous cowardice with JK Rowling. They are fobbing us off and know they are wrong. FAFO Police Scotland. FAFO.”

FAFO is Gen X slang, standing for ‘F*** Around Find Out’, which some might argue gives the comment a somewhat menacing and even threatening tone.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: HarassmentLanguage PolicingSandie PeggieScottish Daily ExpressTrans Activism

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    sskinner
    sskinner
    2 months ago

    Why is this a Police matter? We have Palestinian apologists marching in support of the extermination of Jews and yet ‘misgendering’ is a crime.

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    Jeff Chambers
    Jeff Chambers
    2 months ago

    gratuitous misgendering and deadnaming

    Our civilisation is in very serious trouble when fantasies of this kind become “protected” in law.

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    Mogwai
    Mogwai
    2 months ago
    Reply to  Jeff Chambers

    Autogynephilia is to become normalised in the same way paedophilia is intended to be. The former get rebranded as “trans” and the latter to “MAPs”. The intention is for these fetishes and perversions to become mainstream, erase the stigma and ultimately be accepted by the masses. This is why irrefutable biological fact and common sense must triumph in court cases like the above example.
    What we’re seeing is the de-masculinization and de-feminization of society, and this trans agenda daftness is just one way of achieving it.

    There’s someone on here who maintains that this gender ideology lark is not an attack on women’s sex-based rights purely because there’s more female to male ( FtM ) transitions, and all of these cases we’re seeing are mere “media distortion”. But I’m yet to see a single case of men’s sex-based rights being abused, or any men complaining of their sporting opportunities being stolen, male prisoners feeling threatened by FtM trans inmates or any men being sexually assaulted or harassed in male changing rooms by ‘trans men’, waving their faux schlongs about the place. Interesting that these many reports are all always, without fail, men parodying women, playing the system, because they ultimately want what we’ve got, or they’re blatant sexual predators exploiting the loopholes in the law to gain access to private female spaces where we’re most vulnerable. That’s some pretty impressive “distortion” going on.🧐

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    EileenD
    EileenD
    2 months ago
    Reply to  Mogwai

    It is an issue for both sexes.

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    Mogwai
    Mogwai
    2 months ago
    Reply to  EileenD

    Well it’s an issue that impacts men, women and kids, but undoubtedly it’s the female sex that’s most negatively impacted and is coming off the worst, as I describe above. To deny that is to deny reality.

    Last edited 2 months ago by Mogwai
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    Hester
    Hester
    2 months ago
    Reply to  Jeff Chambers

    If there is no such thing as a woman because a man can be one at the say so where is the need for an equality law? There are only Men it seems so how can the Trans lobby be arguing for equality with something that is a nothing, something that any man can be at the say so.

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    Lurker
    Lurker
    2 months ago

    Asides from the obvious (namely he’s a bloke), the case would be nearly impossible to report to someone who was unaware of the details without making that clear.

    I find it interesting they’ve highlighted the lack of a GRC and wonder if that will be their “defence” (as well as it being factually correct) over the matter?

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    Art Simtotic
    Art Simtotic
    2 months ago

    Yawn, yawn. Time for an afternoon nap.

    Last edited 2 months ago by Art Simtotic
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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    2 months ago

    Dear DS
    I love you to bits but please stop using the fantasy nonsense misleading evil word “transgender”, invented by the enemy
    Language matters
    Thanks
    ToF

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    Mogwai
    Mogwai
    2 months ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    Seems he’s even wearing his wife’s jewellery from their wedding day to court. God, this is double cringey. Why the wife didn’t run for the hills when she first got wind of this behaviour of his is anyone’s guess. Even if you split up but remained friends but to stay as, er…wife and ‘wife’, in what some might describe as an, erm…same-sex lesbian marriage🤦‍♀️is just taking the Michael and then some, isn’t it??🤡 What an unmitigated clown show;

    https://x.com/topgirls/status/1888998231318680020

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    Mogwai
    Mogwai
    2 months ago

    One thing that amazes me ( or perhaps it shouldn’t, because these traitors to their own sex are everywhere ) is that this Dr guy’s wife has stood by him. She’s accompanying him to court and everything. So once again, women screwing over and back-stabbing other women at any and every opportunity. Disgraceful behaviour from an odious woman, not only trampling all over female’s sex-based rights but being complicit in screwing up another woman’s career.
    Pete Barnes calls it because if he wins this case then this sets the precedent and all bets are off for this unsafe, abusive woke nonsense to continue unchallenged. Nurse Peggie must win this in order for common sense to prevail and defeat this gender ideology garbage;

    https://x.com/TalkTV/status/1890489285901533693

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    Michael Ford
    Michael Ford
    2 months ago

    The bigger news story is that we’re allowing mentally ill people to become doctors and practice when they should be receiving treatment themselves for a neurological illness. Does anyone in their right mind believe that this bloke will always provide rational medical care?

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    CircusSpot
    CircusSpot
    2 months ago
    Reply to  Michael Ford

    Clearly not as mentally ill as having the meat and two veg surgically removed before joining the women in their changing room and toilets!

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    Marcus Aurelius knew
    Marcus Aurelius knew
    2 months ago

    “The medic is biologically male and does not have a gender recognition certificate to legally change gender.”

    Once he possesses the paper he is allowed in the ladies’ changing room. Sorted.

    🤔

    Clown World

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    RT
    RT
    2 months ago

    Society is becoming more like Sodom and Gomorrah every day. I fear we we suffer the same fate unless we repent; and soon.

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    RW
    RW
    2 months ago

    The interesting question here is Since when is it a matter for the police when somebody calls somebody else a man, regardless of the sexes of both involved people?

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    BS Whitworth
    BS Whitworth
    2 months ago

    a “courtesy” to tell lies?

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    RW
    RW
    2 months ago
    Reply to  BS Whitworth

    Even better: A courtesy to address someone only in the way he’s ordering others to address him? Who gave him the authority to issue such commands? I can insist for as long as I want that other people may only refer to me as his magnificence but if they’re just going to laugh about that and ignore it, they have certainly every right to do so.

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    RTSC
    RTSC
    2 months ago

    He is a man; biological fact.

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