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.