Saturday, September 9, 2023

"Calling trans woman a 'w----r' is discrimination, tribunal suggests"

It's wanker. 

And this is the second story in the last month I've read about a trans person named Amanda.

From The Telegraph, August 24 

Female-specific insults should be used to avoid possible breach of equality law, panel advises, after complaint from trans bus driver

Calling a trans woman a ‘w—-r’ is discriminatory because the insult is commonly used in reference to men, an employment tribunal has suggested.

The swear word is not a gender-neutral term and so using it against someone who has transitioned would constitute a breach of equality laws, a panel concluded.

To insult a trans woman without being discriminatory, female-specific slurs should be used instead, the tribunal suggested.

Its ruling came after a trans bus driver sued the company where she had been working for gender reassignment discrimination.

Amanda Fischer claimed that another employee called her a “w----r”.

The agency worker also claimed a driver drove too close to her because she is trans, which made her fear for her life, the tribunal heard.

She lost her case after the panel decided the “w----r” incident had not actually occurred.

In addition, the bus company had argued that the swear word could be used against both men and women.

However, the panel ruled that if it had been used against her it would have been discrimination.

‘Swear words that are used to insult women’
Employment judge Kathryn Patricia Ramsden said: “Despite the [company’s] position, the Tribunal does not consider the insult ‘w----r’ to be a gender-neutral term.

“The panel members’ own experiences of use of that term is that it is applied to men, and that there are equivalent but different swear words that are specifically used in common parlance to insult women.”....

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