An NHS England employee has described winning a discrimination case against bosses who allowed a trans woman to use single–sex toilets as a win ‘for all women’.

The Muslim woman, who was granted anonymity at her employment tribunal, suffered from post–traumatic stress disorder after a historic sexual assault, and said she had found it ‘very alarming’ and ‘quite triggering’ to learn she would have to share the women’s bathrooms at work with a male colleague who was transitioning to become a woman.

The policy advisor, who has worked for the Government body for nine years, said she was ‘gobsmacked’ to learn that it was NHS England policy for trans employees to use facilities that corresponded with their gender, rather than their biological sex.

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