Jane Russell KC, representing NHS Fife and Dr Beth Upton, emailed the tribunal shortly after 11.30pm on September 1 seeking permission to amend the pleadings. Read more:Ms Peggie, who works at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, is suing NHS Fife and her colleague, Dr Upton, after she was suspended following a confrontation in a female changing room on Christmas Eve 2023. When she arrived, Dr Upton — a transgender woman who had joined the department as a junior doctor in August 2023 — was already there. Ms Peggie told the tribunal she told Dr Upton that he was a man and should not be in the female changing room. They said Ms Peggie repeated “that I cannot be in this room and that I am not a woman, that it is not safe.