Nutmeg's week: Linzi Smith; Sandie Peggie; Judge Farquhar

This man was an MP last year

Jamie Wallis, whose Wikipedia page now states his name is Katie Wallis, has been sentenced to a 12-month community order involving 12 days of rehabilitation activity and fined £1,264. It emerged in court that he has been sectioned twice in recent months, attempted suicide and experienced a ‘psychotic breakdown’ during a police interview. A restraining order was also imposed for 12 months to prevent contact with his ex-wife, who he terrorised. After they split up, he repeatedly verbally abused her and demanded she pay him £350,000, which led to her installing CCTV cameras in her home for fear of him turning up. She told the court: “For so long I have had to fight against the tide of Jamie’s behaviour, publicly and privately. The woman I used to be is destroyed. I will never understand what I have done to deserve the hurt I have endured.”

Despite all this, the BBC News report on his conviction concentrates on his gender identity, and almost totally ignores the effect his abuse had on her.

A Bumba-ling idiot

The Sandie Peggie case resumed this week, in what turned out to be a tumultuous few days. A reminder: the tribunal is a case she has brought, citing sexual harassment and discrimination by NHS Fife and Dr ‘Beth’ Upton. This is because she was suspended from her job as a nurse after Upton (a cross-dressing man) complained about her confronting him in a women’s changing room when she was experiencing menstrual flooding. Sandie was accused of bullying and harassment by Upton, as well as ‘misgendering’ him and failing in patient care because of her ‘hostility’ to him.

First, Sandie discovered she had been fully cleared of these potentially career-ending allegations of misconduct the night before the tribunal was due to resume.

The next day, the tribunal went ahead as planned. This surprised some given how weak NHS Fife’s case now is: A crucial part of Upton’s ongoing defence was his allegations of misconduct against Sandie. And, since the tribunal was paused five months ago, the Supreme Court has clarified that a man is not a woman, which is likely to mean that NHS Fife was acting unlawfully by allowing a man into a single-sex female changing facility.

Yet, somehow, the resumption of the hearing went even worse for NHS Fife than was expected. Its equality and human rights lead officer, Isla Bumba, gave evidence on the first day. Not only did she refer to Upton as ‘he’ at least twice, as his own legal representative had done earlier in the hearing, but she inadvertently admitted ‘trans women’ are men. When asked by Sandie’s lawyer, Naomi Cunningham, whether she felt ‘men in general are a greater threat to women than vice versa’, she replied that “trans women are different from other men in the level of threat they present. They are less of a risk, except for Isla Bryson”.

She also claimed not to know the percentage of NHS Fife employees who are female, a widely available figure (84%), and that she didn’t know her own sex due to a lack of chromosomal testing. Bumba said, “I would hazard a guess that I would be female, but no one knows what their chromosomes are, or their hormonal composition, unless you’ve had that tested, and I at least have not and I’m not sure if Beth has”. It seems Bumba may have given professional advice and developed policies within her role based on unquestioning support for gender ideology and a misunderstanding of the Equality Act. She will perhaps become a convenient scapegoat for NHS Fife.

(More on the tribunal next week, as there are ongoing and quite incredible developments).

Led up the Jardine path

There was another major victory for a woman who has been victimised due to her bravery in standing up for reality against the abusive trans cult. A judicial review ruled in favour of Linzi Smith against Northumbria Police. Linzi, who is also taking a stand against Newcastle United’s discrimination against her, argued that Northumbria Police’s uniformed participation in Newcastle Pride in 2024 breached their professional oath to act impartially. Linzi says she has experienced the effects of Northumbria Police’s impartiality when she was the subject of an investigation due to her gender critical tweets and had also been failed by them when she was the victim of homophobic abuse.

Harry Miller of Fair Cop, who supported Linzi’s case, noted in his evidence referring to the Pride event that ‘the Chief Constable marched in the immediate proximity of those carrying the flags and emblems clearly associated with the gender ideologists’ cause. Trans Women Are Women, Trans Rights Are Human Rights, the intersectional flag and the blue, pink and white transgender pride flag signalled to me (and I believe would signal to anyone or certainly many people, including gender critical people) a political association in a similar way to how someone shouting ‘Build A Wall’ or ‘Make America Great Again’ signals an association with Donald Trump.’

Mr Justice Linden found that Chief Constable Vanessa Jardine acted unlawfully in authorising police participation in Pride, since the activities concerned could give rise to the idea that the police were not impartial. He also commented that Jardine seemed not to have understood that her responsibilities under the Equality Act did not outweigh her duty to be impartial.

As Sarah Phillimore suggests, this ruling will have enormous repercussions both inside and outside of the police: ‘This matters for every organisation but it’s a particularly dangerous failing for the police. They have the power to arrest and detain. If they are going to be dancing monkeys for one contested ideology, then they need to dance for all - or, and by far a better idea, none at all. Do your job, without fear or favour. That is how you win the trust of various communities. Because we can trust you not to judge us, to offer us equal protections, that you leave your political and religious affiliations at home. That we won’t see you smiling next to a placard that says ‘Terfs and racists - be afraid’’.

Linzi promised to take further legal action if Chief Constable Jardine continued to authorise off-duty officers wearing t-shirts that identify them as police for this year’s Northern Pride event. Shortly afterwards, however, Northumbria Police confirmed to Fair Cop that they would no longer participate in Pride, or in displaying the emblems associated with it. Fair Cop is confident that all police forces will be obliged to follow suit.

In the aftermath of Linzi’s victory, videos like this emerged. It features staff at Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service mocking people who think they shouldn’t be involved in Pride, saying, for example, that they need to display rainbow lanyards because ‘inclusion is part of our jobs’. They even suggest that they need to make videos like this because otherwise, LGBT people won’t call for assistance if there’s a fire. It feels like a video that was made in the last decade but it was actually put together just a few weeks ago, in 2025.

Fair Cop believes that the fire service will be included in any forthcoming changes to guidance on Pride.

And in more good news

Could you have imagined any of these stories happening just three years ago?

A fly in the ointment

While it was a week of extremely good news in the war against insanity, there are still gob-smacking stories about cross-dressing men benefiting from institutional ideologues all the time, and this week was no exception.

In what’s been described as a ‘legal first’, a judge at Brighton Family Court has forced a woman to pay £80,000 towards her ex-husband’s ‘gender surgery’.

The couple married in 2002, and had two children. The wife says that, in 2022, her husband announced that he was a ‘lesbian’ and had commenced hormone therapy. She issued divorce proceedings two months later. He, however, claimed that she had ‘always known I’m trans’.

During their separation, the husband, in his 60s, claimed he could not afford to pay court-ordered maintenance to his wife and children, but spent tens of thousands of pounds on credit cards in just a few months on ‘clothing, nails, jewellery, restaurants and tattoos’.

He then had surgery in 2024, which came to £160,000, which he paid for out of their joint account.

The wife told the court that it was ridiculous that she should have to fund his ‘transition’, particularly as that was the cause of the breakdown of their marriage.

However, the husband argued that it was an essential medical procedure akin to surgery for someone who has cancer.

The husband said: “You marry a trans person. You live with a trans person. You benefit from a trans person. They are suicidal and you support them.”

Incredibly, Judge Farquhar, despite acknowledging that the husband had a ‘striking lack of empathy’ for his ex-wife, accepted his argument, and ordered her to pay for half of his ‘treatment’.

And the BBC can’t let go either

Some cross-dressers in Cumbria have been featured in a documentary about what it's like being a cross-dresser in Cumbria, which will be screened for free in a Cumbrian cinema this month. Their ‘bravery’ was a BBC News story this week.

The new series of The Great British Sewing Bee, presented by Sara ‘men can get pregnant’ Pascoe, also featured the obligatory BBC man in a dress. Just before it aired, the show posted on Facebook that ‘degrading comments about things like identity aren’t permitted’.

And finally

The final episode of ITV comedy Transaction has aired, and it is all about the message - at the expense of any comedy - that Jordan Gray is a woman even though he has a penis.

See you next week!