A TRANS woman who threatened to “batter” the surgeon who carried out her gender reassignment surgery has been jailed for 14 months.
Vivienne Taylor, 28, admitted threatening Tina Rashid, bombarding her with emails and turning up at her workplace unexpectedly.
The stalker mounted a relentless harassment campaign against the surgeon.
In one terrifying email, Taylor wrote: “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.”
The court heard how Taylor had even attempted to send Dr Rashid letters after being arrested.
Taylor, of Wirral, Cheshire, earlier admitted stalking causing serious alarm or distress between September 2024 and November 2025.
Judge Giles Curtis-Raleigh handed out a sentence of 14 months in prison and an indefinite restraining order barring Taylor from Dr Rashid’s home and workplace.
In her impact statement read to the court, Dr Rashid said: “I have had to change my behaviour and carry a personal safety alarm.”
She said she has “anxiety most nights” and added she now takes expensive Ubers to work.
“The work I do is sensitive, and I am very worried that people will get the wrong impression about my patient group,” Dr Rashid added.
Ms Rashid had performed Taylor’s gender reassignment surgery in 2021.
After the operation, Taylor was discharged from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital – where Ms Rashid specialises in surgery for trans women.
But Prosecutor Jonathan Bryan told the court Taylor later returned after suffering “self-inflicted complications”.
Mr Bryan said: “The defendant was insisting that she be treated by the same surgeon.
“She threatened to kill herself if she wasn’t dealt with by that surgeon.”
Taylor was eventually banned from seeing the surgeon and she moved away from London later that year.
Dr Rashid thought it would be the end of the nightmare, but Taylor initiated contact again last year after returning to the capital.
The specialist was bombarded with a series of unwanted emails before Taylor quested to connect with her on LinkedIn in March this year.
A few weeks later, Taylor then started frequently appearing at the hospital claiming to have appointments, the court heard.
Mr Bryan added: “She was requesting to be under the complainant’s care team.
“Later that month, she went to the hospital saying she had an appointment with the complainant.”
Taylor falsely claimed to have appointments five more times before vowing to “batter” Ms Rashid and “s*** her partner”, he added.
The threatening email was sent to the horrified surgeon on November 2.
Taylor had moved back to London to escape domestic abuse and had suffered breakdowns in mental health in the past, the court was told.
Passing sentence, Judge Curtis-Raleigh said: “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 added the fact Taylor also tried to send Dr Rashid letters in custody demonstrated a “lack of insight” into the harm the stalking had caused.
