A trans woman who threatened to ‘batter’ a top surgeon after she carried out her gender reassignment surgery is facing jail.
Vivienne Taylor, 28, bombarded Tina Rashid with unwanted emails, and even turned up at her workplace several times claiming she had booked an appointment.
Ms Rashid, who specialises in surgery for trans women at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, carried out Taylor’s gender reassignment surgery in 2021, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard.
After Taylor organised a cake to thank the surgeon, Ms Rashid realised there were ‘a large number of photographs’ of herself on Taylor’s phone.
Taylor was later discharged from hospital but returned after suffering ‘complications’ believed to be ‘self-inflicted’, Prosecutor Jonathan Bryan told the court.
‘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.
Vivienne Taylor, 28, threatened to ‘batter’ a top surgeon after she carried out her gender reassignment surgery
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 shag her partner’, the prosecutor told the court.
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.
