Trans Woman In China Is Suing Her Former Employer After Being Fired
A Chinese trans woman, using the name Yang, wad fired from her job after completing gender-reassignment surgery. In China, that is the fate of many members of the country’s LGBT+ community.
The reason given to her for her dismissal was “chronic tardiness” but Yang is suing her former employer for discrimination and LGBT+ activists are calling “a landmark test of a transgender woman seeking redress through a new addition to Chinese law promoting equal employment rights,” reports ‘Yahoo News’.
"A lot of times, people think an LGBT-friendly company or environment is ... actually being friendly to homosexuals or gay men, but not friendly to transgender people," said Yang.
"A lot of (people with) traditional ideas still think transgender people are either performers or prostitutes," she continued.
"The law will just be a dead law if nobody uses it.”
This is one of China’s first trans equal-employment rights suit.
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