A trans woman facing jail for stalking the surgeon who carried out her gender reassignment surgery bombarded the NHS with more than a dozen freedom of information requests asking for details about her, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Vivienne Taylor yesterday pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to stalking and threatening Tina Rashid – who specialises in surgery for trans women at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital – after she operated on her in 2021.
Over a four-year period, the 28-year-old repeatedly tried to see Ms Rashid by turning up at the hospital pretending to have an appointment and sending emails threatening to ‘batter’ her.
Disturbing new details can now be revealed about the case, including Taylor’s attempt to exploit freedom of information laws – which gives the public the right to ask for material held by public bodies – to find out her salary and contact details.
Other requests asked NHS trusts, a private healthcare provider and the General Medical Council about Ms Rashid’s ‘social and educational background’ and even her ‘motivation to become a doctor’. None of them were ever answered.
Meanwhile, Taylor revealed on social media that she wanted to become a gender reassignment surgeon herself and last month claimed she had applied to medical school.
She also told followers she had completed a course in aesthetics, a type of cosmetic medicine.
Taylor – who is from Liverpool but lived in London – adopted a bright and friendly online persona, but other posts give an insight into a darker side of her psyche.
Vivienne Taylor pictured herself in medical scrubs after she had completed a course in aesthetics
A worrying message Taylor posted on social media during her stalking campaign
In one, posted during her stalking campaign, she wrote: ‘People tend to underestimate me and it’s a foolish mistake to make. I can be the kindest, most helpful and hospitable girl but if you screw me over, I’ll be your worst nightmare. so [sic] don’t f*** me over.’
Taylor’s obsession with Ms Rashid first emerged in 2021 when she was going through gender reassignment procedures.
‘She had organised a cake, to say thank you to the surgeon, and at that point it was noticed that she had a large number of photographs of the surgeon on her phone’, Prosecutor Jonathan Bryan told Westminster Magistrates Court.
Taylor was discharged from hospital but returned after suffering ‘complications’ believed to be ‘self-inflicted’.
‘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,’ Mr Bryan said.
Ms Rashid believed the matter had ended after Taylor was banned from seeing her and moved away from London later that year. But Taylor got back in contact last year when she returned to the capital.
She sent Ms Rashid a series of emails before requesting to connect with her on LinkedIn in March 2025 and began turning up at the hospital to see her in May.
Taylor (pictured) bombarded Tina Rashid with unwanted emails, and even turned up at her workplace several times claiming she had booked an appointment
Ms Rashid (pictured) who specialises in surgery for trans women at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, carried out Taylor’s gender reassignment surgery in 2021
Mr Bryan said: ‘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.’
Mr Bryan said Taylor turned up for invented appointments five more times before sending Ms Rashid a threatening email on November 2.
Taylor said she ‘would batter her and s**g her partner’, the prosecutor told the court, as reported by The Standard.
The court heard Taylor had suffered past breakdowns in her mental health and moved back to London to escape domestic abuse.
The defendant admitted stalking causing serious alarm or distress at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday and will be sentenced at a later date.
She will also undergo a psychological profile and be assessed by probation ahead of a sentencing hearing.
