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Shadow Equalities Minister gives support to Christian nurse suspended for using wrong pronoun

Shadow Equalities Minister gives support to Christian nurse suspended for using wrong pronoun
Jennifer Melle | Christian Legal Centre
ET staff writer
ET staff writer
21 October, 2025 2 min read

A Christian nurse, suspended after a disagreement about gender pronouns, has won the backing of the shadow equalities minister.

Nurse Jennifer Melle has been accused of misgendering a convicted transgender paedophile who racially abused her.

When she spoke to the media about her case, she was suspended, but now the Conservative Party’s equalities front-bencher Claire Coutinho has called for her to be reinstated.

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