The five NHS nurses, dubbed as the "Darlington Five", have raised women's rights against their employers as they were forced out of their changing rooms after complaining about a trans colleague.
The group of five at Darlington Memorial Hospital launched a legal case last June alleging sexual harassment against their employer, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.
The nurses - Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Annice Grundy, Tracey Hooper and Joanne Bradbury - who were compared to the Ford Dagenham workers who fought for equal pay, claim the trust ignored their concerns about sharing a changing room with a staff member who was born biologically male but now identifies as a woman.
In a report released to the media, the five nurses reported that vulnerable women, including those with past trauma and whose religious and cultural beliefs prevented them from undressing around men, suffered panic attacks as a result of the arrangement.
The women said they had been left feeling "degraded and dehumanised" after being offered a "temporary" locker room to change in instead.
In July, the nurses were informed that their ward manager’s office was being cleared out and would become a "temporary" locker room for anyone uncomfortable undressing in front of colleagues who were assigned male at birth.
In a joint statement, the nurses said: "We were told the locker room would be 'temporary' until a solution was found. This locker room, however, does not appear to be temporary and no solution has been found.
"Changing in this room has made us feel humiliated, embarrassed, isolated, ostracised, degraded and dehumanised.
"Ultimately this 'locker room' still falls under the same policy as any other changing room facility in the trust and, therefore, if a male identifying as a female wanted to access it, they could."