In AB v Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (ET/2303616/2021), an employee of the Borough of Kingston council won nearly £25,000 in damages after convincing the Employment Tribunal that the council discriminated against her while she was undergoing a gender transition by using her previous name.
The tribunal ruled in a judgment published on 13 October 2023 that the claimant, referred to as Miss AB, had proved that the council committed several acts of direct discrimination because of her status as a transgender woman, upholding 10 of her claims.
The majority of the claims that succeeded were instances in which she was ‘deadnamed’—the term for referring to a trans person by the name, and therefore gender, that they used before they transitioned.
The tribunal awarded Miss AB £21,000 as compensation for injury to feelings plus £4,423 in interest.
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