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I by no means imagined {that a} frontline NHS nurse from the unique Washington, a city within the north‑east of England, would sooner or later discover herself flying to Washington D.C. to talk on a global stage.

Yet this week, that’s precisely the place I’m headed, alongside Andrea Williams of the Christian Legal Centre who has supported our case from the start, following the landmark authorized ruling that vindicated eight abnormal nurses who merely requested to not need to undress in entrance of a male colleague.

Our story has travelled far past Darlington Memorial Hospital. It has turn into a warning, not simply to Britain, however now to America, of what occurs when ideology overtakes widespread sense, safeguarding, and fundamental human dignity.

For greater than two-and-a-half years my colleagues and I requested our NHS Trust (County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust) for one thing that ought to by no means have been up for debate: the precise for ladies to have a feminine‑solely altering room. Instead, we had been instructed to “broaden our mindset,” get “educated,” and settle for a organic male in our non-public area, or else.

Some of my colleagues, together with survivors of abuse, had been re-traumatised. All of us had been ignored, intimidated and put at additional danger.

When the employment tribunal dominated earlier this month that what occurred to us was illegal harassment, that our dignity had been violated, it ought to by no means have felt like a groundbreaking victory. But it did. And that reality alone is alarming to say the least.

As I put together to deal with the She Leads convention in Washington, I am going not as a campaigner, however as an abnormal nurse who was pushed into extraordinary circumstances together with my brave colleagues who I couldn’t do that with out.

If this may occur within the UK, a rustic as soon as identified for its sturdy safeguarding, its clear understanding of organic actuality and because the residence of freedom of speech, then no nation is immune.

My message to America is straightforward: don’t wait till your establishments are captured earlier than you begin combating again. Women ought to by no means need to go to courtroom to defend organic actuality or their proper to single‑intercourse areas.

That is why our story issues internationally.

This shouldn’t be a British drawback. It is a Western drawback. It is a cultural drawback. It is a fact drawback. And it calls for a response.

Bethany Hutchison is President of the Darlington Nursing Union