The rights of transgender workers in China have been given a shot in the arm after a Beijing court ruled in favour of an employee who was fired for taking time off to recover from gender reassignment surgery.
It sounds like it was a case of targeting a trans woman. CW: transphobia
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From the article: “In the letter, the company addressed Gao as “Mr”, referred to her as a “mental patient” and said that they had to “protect” other employees from her.”
That’s cool but why the fuck was a worker fired for being on sick leave in any way? Like, does China not have paid sick leave??
It sounds like it was a case of targeting a trans woman. CW: transphobia
spoiler
From the article: “In the letter, the company addressed Gao as “Mr”, referred to her as a “mental patient” and said that they had to “protect” other employees from her.”