Jill Foster
@JournalistJill
Freelance writer/editor. Never turns off replies.
What did councils actually know about Pride in Surrey founder Stephen Ireland before he was arrested for child rape? I've been speaking to several women who were trying to raise the alarm as much as six years ago...will lessons be learned? telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/0…
NHS Fife seem to be good at writing a load of old guff, then sneakily deleting or changing it when someone on social media points out that it’s a load of old guff. Well done @GenderReceipts 👏
🚨The @nhsfife website was edited following my post.🚨 Why is "intersex" suddenly no longer a "gender identity" - who there has the power to decide what ideological nonsense is included on the website? It ALL needs removing. New: archive.ph/SrYSC
"Right now, lurking in offices across Scotland, there are overconfident and under- qualified men and women who hold in their hands – and seem indecently eager to exercise – the power to destroy careers." ✍️ @euanmccolm
my @MailOnline column about the tyrants of the lanyard class: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Interesting how both Isla Bumba and Kate Searle relied on Google to provide them with advice on the law relating to single sex changing rooms. I wonder what their views are on people googling their symptoms and relying on that for medical advice.
If I can offer one suggestion: Take these stories outside X if you are able. I posted about Peggie V Fife on Fbook and made 400 contacts - many in journalism - aware of the bias by BBC etc. Steer clear of lecturing. Just state facts. X can be such an echo chamber.
It’s one of the most anticipated days of evidence at the Peggie tribunal. Follow @tribunaltweets but also @holyroodmandy @heraldscotland and @TheScotsman for live updates. Legacy outlets have shown themselves to be unreliable storytellers. For the full picture, look elsewhere.
Really nice story from an @TheScotsman FOI showing that efforts to remove books from libraries including ‘Irreversible Damage’ by Abigail Shrier and ‘Trans’ by Helen Joyce, have been resisted. /
How many times have men used the “but we have no Ladies toilet” excuse to keep women out of the workplace? The Carnegie Institution tried this in 1965 with Woman of the Day astronomer Vera Rubin when she applied to observe at the Palomar Observatory. She cut out a little paper…
So no other woman complained about Upton in the female changing room? Troubling that an anaesthetist might confuse silence for consent.
The BBC was at a different tribunal to the rest of us. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Friends and I just discussing who will play who in the dramatisation of Peggie V Fife. So far we have Anna Maxwell Martin as Naomi C, Miranda Hart as Kate Searle and Brian Blessed as Dr Upton.
And until this never happens again, anywhere in the UK, those of us who can, MUST stop it happening. This wouldn't happen to me, or anyone else protected by wealth or privilege, but it's happening to NHS nurses under the bosses' eyes. #istandwithsandiepeggie always 💜🤍💚
He felt uncomfortable’ that a female nurse didn’t want to ‘engage’ in undressing with him. And even when she tried to do the right thing - by staying out of his way while he was in the changing room - that action was thought of as ‘bad behaviour’. JFC what dark days for women.
Six NHS Fife staff members all forgot to disclose an email revealing their conspiracy to aid the man forcing his way into the female changing room Forgot Remarkable
Day 5 | PM Session | Peggie v NHS Fife & Dr Upton How to Bury an Email (and a Woman’s Rights) The fifth day of Peggie v Fife NHS Board & Dr. Upton closed with two afternoon sessions that drilled straight into the case’s procedural and moral core. Dr. Kate Searle - A&E…
He felt uncomfortable’ that a female nurse didn’t want to ‘engage’ in undressing with him. And even when she tried to do the right thing - by staying out of his way while he was in the changing room - that action was thought of as ‘bad behaviour’. JFC what dark days for women.
By “engage” Kate Searle means that Dr Upton “felt uncomfortable” because a female nurse wouldn’t undress in his presence.
KS I dint make an approach to Sp about her feeling uncomfortable NC U saw her removing herself from CR as bad behaviour KS Beth felt uncomfirtable that SP didnt want to engage...she was the only one behaving like this NC That's not the Q.
Just wheeling this out again in honour of Dr Kate Searle.
‘Would you like to know the nebulous dog whistle?’
An actual medical doctor is saying out loud, in front of a judge, that someone’s sex is decided by the people who deliver the baby and that she is not an expert. Oh. My. God. 🤡 🤡 🤡
It's a decision made at birth by the ppl delivering the baby, I believe. I'm not an expert at it. NC So sex assigned at birth is whether u have a M or F body? Yes NC Bio sex is very important [lists re responses to drugs, normal ranges for bld results] KS Yes
Special place in hell for women like Dr Kate Searle…not a moment’s concern for Sandie Peggie. All about how Dr Upton was feeling.
KS SO we cld all support Beth if she felt unable to work or if she needed any support. JR Can u estimate how many colleagues 19 at that time JR Can you read "Beth was approached" Why say this? KS Beth perceived active confrontation, was aggressive in manner
Cue a mis-isla crisis…
Jane Russell KC calls Isla Bumba "Isla Bryson" 🤣🤣🤣😱😱😱
Men like Upton HAVE to be very open about their trans status…otherwise we would just see them as…men. It’s like someone telling you they are vegan so you don’t serve them a ham sandwich by mistake.
KS - when I met her, in interview for job was very open about it JR - did she tell you? KS - yes JR - how long did you beloeve out as TW? KS believe a year JR - first meeting with DU? KS - aug 23 JR - purpose of meeting? KS - intro to me, what she wanted to get out of role, ans