A transgender woman who stalked and threatened the nurse who carried out her gender reassignment surgery has been jailed.
Vivienne Taylor, 28, stalked urological surgeon Tina Rashid over four years and developed a “fixation,” the court heard, hammering the NHS with over a dozen freedom of information requests in order to find her personal information, such as salary and contact details.
Taylor, of Wirral, Cheshire, pleaded guilty to stalking, causing serious alarm or distress between September 2024 and November 2025, and was sentenced to 14 months at Isleworth Crown Court on Friday.
She was also handed an indefinite restraining order, barring her from the home and workplace of Dr Rashid, who performed her gender reassignment surgery in 2021.
In her victim statement, Dr Rashid said she has had to change her behaviour and use a personal safety alarm and app. She now has “anxiety most nights”.
“I have considered very carefully whether I was in a fit state to operate safely and if I would have to wake that patient up before their surgery,” she said, describing an incident at work.
The ordeal left her wearing caps or hoods to hide her identity and paying for expensive Uber rides because she was “worried about being followed”.
“I have young children living with me and I also fear for their safety,” she added.
Vivienne Taylor, a transgender woman who stalked and threatened the nurse who carried out her gender reassignment surgery, has been jailed
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During the stalking, Taylor is said to have “bombarded” the surgeon with emails, initially suggesting they should “catch up”, though these later turned more sinister, threatening to “batter” the surgeon.
Initial suspicions were raised in 2021, following her surgery, when it was noticed there was a “large number of photographs of the surgeon” on Taylor’s phone.
Taylor then turned up at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where Dr Rashid specialises in surgery for trans women, with “self-inflicted complications,” prosecutor Jonathan Bryan told the court.
“The defendant was insisting that she be treated by the same surgeon,” he said. “She threatened to kill herself if she wasn’t dealt with by that surgeon.”
A trans woman has pleaded guilty to stalking and threatening the nurse that carried out their gender reassignment surgery in 2021 | LINKEDIN
She was later banned from seeing Dr Rashid and moved away from London, citing mental health problems and domestic abuse. She returned to the capital last year, restarting contact.
After trying to reach the surgeon on LinkedIn, the final email from Taylor to Dr Rashid, sent on November 2, was described as “plainly terrifying” by Judge Giles Curtis-Raleigh in court.
The message read: “I am going to find you and your partner and when I do I will hold both of you to account.
“I am going to batter both of you evil c**** and make you suffer.
“When I find your partner, Tina, I am going to s*** him.”
Tina Rashid worked at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital | PA
Sentencing, the Judge said: “Although you apologise at times, and say you understand the impact, you also sought to put blame on her for putting you in prison, which causes me concern.
“Dr Rashid has clearly been affected, in my judgement, in every aspect of her life.
“She suffered in very real terms… that is the real effect of your harm.”
He told the court that Taylor had even tried to contact Dr Rashid via letters while in custody, which showed a “lack of insight” into the harm she had caused.