Transsexual sues ex-employers after she 'was sacked for dressing as a woman'
A TRANSSEXUAL is suing her former employers, claiming she lost her job after she came to work dressed as a woman.
Rachel Millington, 24, has been living as a woman for a year ahead of undergoing hormone therapy next year and eventually gender reassignment surgery.
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Rachel Millington.
But Rachel, who was formerly called Andrew, is taking her former employer to tribunal next month.
Miss Millington, of Thurlby Crescent, Ermine, Lincoln, claims the company terminated her contract as a support worker working with adults with learning difficulties, but does not know why.
She says this happened in September, shortly after she changed her name from Andrew by deed poll and came to work dressed as a woman.
She said: "This is the longest time I've been out of work and I don't want to be signing on.
"I don't think people are aware that there are people like me out there and that I'm not hurting anyone."
The company declined to comment ahead of the tribunal hearing.
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by lynn, lincoln
Tuesday, August 24 2010, 4:29PM
“I'm an atheist, thank God.”
by Anon, Lincoln
Tuesday, August 24 2010, 9:34AM
“Out of all these messages, the most shocking to me is that people still believe in god. Next you'll be telling me the tooth fairy made him and santa gave him the wrong bits.”
by Zenster, Kent
Monday, August 23 2010, 7:49PM
“God did not make him a man .. Gad made her a Transsexual.. she was never ever a man .. she just looked like one.. and now she looks on the outside what she has always been on the inside. and it makes no difference to the way she does her job..”
by Ozzy, Ozzy's Ostrich Farm
Friday, August 20 2010, 6:05PM
“The ones I see aren't flying, Dan.”
by Dan, Bottesford
Friday, August 20 2010, 2:04PM
“Will,
Look around you in the natural world what are the birds doing?”