'I am expected to tolerate racism, deny biological reality and suppress my deeply held Christian beliefs': Nurse who called transgender paedophile 'Mr' is suspended after investigation

A elder caregiver who addressed a transgender paedophile arsenic 'Mister' has been suspended aft speaking to The Mail connected Sunday.

Jennifer Melle, 40, was antecedently investigated and disciplined by NHS bosses contempt being called the N-word 3 times by the patient, a convicted enactment offender, who lunged astatine her.

Now, aft a four-minute gathering with a manager past week, she was suspended, ordered to cod her belongings and escorted retired of St Helier Hospital successful Carshalton, Surrey, successful tears.

Last nighttime Tory person Kemi Badenoch described Ms Melle's attraction arsenic 'completely crazy'. She said: 'She has my afloat support. It's clip the Government pulls its digit retired and intervenes to marque it wide nary 1 should beryllium punished astatine enactment for stating biologic world to paedophiles.'

Ugandan-born Ms Melle, from Croydon, South London, spoke to this paper past period astir her ordeal. She said that successful effect to being called 'he' alternatively than 'she', the paedophile, known arsenic Patient X, flew into a rage and near her fearing for her safety.

The caregiver has present been told she faces probe implicit a 'potential breach' of diligent information.

Ms Melle told the MoS: 'I americium devastated to person been suspended conscionable for whistleblowing. Despite being the 1 placed astatine risk, I americium the 1 being punished. The connection I person received is clear: I americium expected to tolerate racism, contradict biologic world and suppress my profoundly held Christian beliefs.'

After her communicative was published, Ms Melle was praised by colleagues. They told her of their ain encounters with Patient X, who turned up past twelvemonth from a high-security men's situation to person attraction for a urinary problem.

During the evening shift, a workfellow told Ms Melle the diligent wanted to self-discharge and a doc was called for guidance. Ms Melle spoke to the doc connected the telephone extracurricular the patient's room, during which she referred to the diligent arsenic 'Mister' and 'he'. She said she was discussing a catheter for a male, adding: 'This was a aesculapian script that required close terminology.'

Overhearing, the diligent took contented with the antheral pronoun. The caregiver replied she was 'sorry I cannot notation to you arsenic 'her' oregon 'she', arsenic it's against my faith'.

The diligent began to verbally maltreatment the nurse, saying: 'Imagine if I called you n*****? How astir I telephone you n*****? Yes, achromatic n*****.'

Ms Melle said: 'It was terrifying. I'd ne'er been called that word. I thought I was going to beryllium attacked.'

But it was Ms Melle who was punished by the infirmary with a last informing and a referral to the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Now she is filing a ineligible assertion against the Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust for harassment, favoritism and quality rights breaches.

Andrea Williams, main enforcement of the Christian Legal Centre, which is supporting Ms Melle, said: 'This is blatant, unlawful victimisation. Jennifer's determination to talk retired astir her attraction is simply a legally protected enactment nether the Equality Act.

'The NHS has go truthful entrenched successful transgender ideology that it is consenting to broadside with a antheral brought successful from situation successful chains – who was shouting racist maltreatment – implicit a Christian nurse. We telephone connected Health Secretary Wes Streeting to intervene.'

A spokesperson for Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust said: 'We expect each members of unit to travel nonrecreational standards – this includes maintaining confidentiality for immoderate patients successful their attraction astatine each times.'