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![Trans fears ‘forced woman to secret loo’
Greig Cameron
An engineer feared being labelled transphobic and felt that she had to start using “secret toilets” at her workplace after encountering a trans colleague in a female bathroom.
Maria Kelly was concerned that she would be placed on the “naughty list” after bringing up her worries about sharing toilets with “men who identify as women”.
Kelly, who has worked at the defence contractor Leonardo UK for 18 years, claims the company did not make it clear that staff could choose to use toilets on the basis of gender identity rather than biological sex.
Leonardo’s site in Edinburgh develops defence products including radar systems and aviation countermeasures.
Kelly was giving evidence during the first day of public hearings at an employment tribunal in Edinburgh.
She told of her shock when an individual came into a female bathroom as she was leaving. Kelly said: “In March 2023 I was walking out of the toilet and one of my trans-identifying male colleagues walked in and I was a little taken aback. I didn’t say anything, I just said ‘hi’ and walked out.
“I had just been washing blood off my hands so I was genuinely quite taken aback, so I then started [using] what we refer to as the secret toilets — they are secret because they are tucked away.”
Kelly had earlier told the tribunal about the need for privacy in dealing with things such as heavy periods.
After the encounter she described her reaction as: “I am not going to sacrifice my privacy, my dignity by sharing the toilet with a man.”
She said: “I went to hunt for a policy. I couldn’t find anything written down and that is what started me asking questions of the company.”
Kelly said that her grievance was not with trans colleagues but with a lack of transparency by the business.
Kelly said that she spent more than a year asking for clarity before the policy was relayed to her via email in April last year.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyefpiziml7b24sxpd74axq7/bafkreicvfio44smibqszsdq3cezppeb4daxqk3o526ddkeuibblsnfja4e@jpeg)
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