Prisoner/Hospital Patient X

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Prisoner/Hospital Patient X, a violent male who identifies as a transgender woman, was jailed for sex offences against children on an unknown date. While X’s identity and the sentence received is currently not publicly known, the Daily Mail reports that X groomed young boys and ‘exploited gender identity by posing as a teenage girl online to incite under age boys to perform sex acts.’ X is also apparently over 6ft tall. 

Discussion of Prisoner/Hospital Patient X in the media is the result of legal action being taken by a senior nurse, Jennifer Melle, at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Surrey. In May 2024, X was transferred from a male prison and admitted to Ms Melle’s ward with a urinary problem. After Ms Melle had referred to X as ‘mister’ and ‘he’ during a phone call discussion with a doctor outside the patient’s room about removal of a catheter from the patient’s penis, she alleges that X subjected her to a racist tirade, including calling her the n-word repeatedly. Ms Melle also alleges that X lunged at her and was only prevented from making physical contact with her due to being chained to two prison officers. Reportedly, a white colleague had also referred to X as a male but was not abused for doing so.

Afterwards, Ms Melle was investigated and given a final warning by Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust and received a letter from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) saying it was investigating concerns about her fitness to practise because she ‘referred to a patient in a manner inconsistent with their gender identity’.

 Ms Melle is suing the hospital trust for harassment, discrimination and human rights breaches. She commented, ‘I am devastated by how I have been treated and believe I am being institutionally abused, harassed, bullied and racially discriminated against. Ever since I have expressed my Christian beliefs under extreme pressure, I have been a marked woman.’

Christian Concern, who is supporting Nurse Melle with her legal action, has provided a press release and X/Twitter thread with more information.

While X’s identity is currently unknown there is no shortage of trans-identified males featured on this site who have pretended to be children online in order to groom vulnerable minors. The majority, though, have targeted young girls, e.g. Gary/Carys Cooper, Sean Pudwell/Michelle Lewin, Nigel/Emma Davies and Anthony Lonsdale all posed as girls to target young girls, and Duncan Smart/Jacinta Brooks posed as a teenage boy to target girls. However, Jasmine Hill and Bex McCullgh both posed as boys in order to target young boys. It also may well be that Prisoner/Hospital Patient X was convicted under a male name and has started identifying as transgender while in prison; the CEO of Sex Matters, Maya Forstater, put together a useful thread on X/Twitter to collate recent cases of adult males posing as girls and boys online to illustrate how commonly male sex offenders use this method to groom and abuse children.

Media reports

Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14526813/nurse-Jennifer-Melle-racism-transgender-paedophile-sex-offender-NHS.html  archive

Interview with Jennifer Melle on GB News https://www.gbnews.com/news/nhs-nurse-jennifer-melle-punished-misgendering-transgender-paedophile  archive

Daily Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/23/nhs-nurse-punished-for-calling-transgender-paedophile-mr/  archive

Evening Standard https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/south-london-nurse-legal-action-nhs-transgender-row-b1218290.html  archive

The Sun https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/33998101/nurse-disciplined-nhs-trans-paedophile/  archive