A nurse who was punished for calling a 6ft transgender prisoner “he” on the phone to a doctor has called on Wes Streeting to stand up for her in her fight against her treatment.

Speaking to GB News, Jennifer Melle said: “It’s been quite a journey since last year at the end of May, when the ordeal happened at the hospital.

“It’s been quite overwhelming, the support that I’ve received from the public. The first time, when I went back to the hospital, I had massive applause from the nurses, and they were really happy to see that I had to stand firm and also sympathising with me at the same time because it’s been quite an ordeal for me, a traumatising experience.

“[The hospital] assumed that I misgendered a patient who was admitted to the hospital for treatment. This was a man about six foot tall, and a prisoner that was in chains at both hands and feet.

“He had come in for treatment and was very disturbing and very aroused and outraged.

“Being the nurse in charge I had to support my colleague. She came to me in distress. I could see her very shaken, and I just asked her what happened and she said that she needed support.

“[She said] This patient is really getting very outrageous and yelling and disturbing the rest of the patients.

“As a nurse in charge it was my position to support her. And I said, okay, I’ll come and help and support you, because she was new to the department.

“The doctors phoned and when the doctor phoned and I spoke to him I said, ‘Mr. So and so’ would like to self-discharge and at that point he became outrageous.

“He overheard me over the phone and began to yell racial slurs at me. ‘I’m not a man, I’m a woman.’

“I was just quite shaken and I was staring at him, big and tall, with two prison guards with him, yelling racial slurs at me.

“I said, ‘I can’t refer to you as a woman because she’s against my belief, against my faith and I’m a Christian.’

“Wes Streeting is responsible also in this case, because of the Supreme Court ruling. He’s supposed to stand up and say, look here, we have a Supreme Court ruling at hand. The courts now have decided and five judges are affirming the Equality Act 2010.”