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UK Employment Tribunal: Calling Trans People ‘Wankers’ is Discrimination Because Insult Not ‘Gender Neutral’

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An employment tribunal in the UK has suggested that gender-specific insults against a transgender person, such as using the common British insult “wanker,” could be a breach of equality laws because the insult is not ‘gender neutral.’

The comments came after a trans bus driver sued London United Busways, the company where he had been working, for gender reassignment discrimination.

Bus driver Amanda Fischer accused his former employer of anti-trans discrimination after co-workers insulted him claiming an employee called him a “wanker.”

He was subsequently fired by the company and filed a lawsuit alleging the firing was connected to the complaint about his treatment.

The employment tribunal ultimately found he had not been discriminated against because the alleged abuse,

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