Fired for sex change Employed as a man, now a woman and out of a job

[Shana A]

Fired for sex change
Employed as a man, now a woman and out of a job
Jul 13, 2010 10:42 PM | By SALLY EVANS

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article548941.ece/Fired-for-sex-change

Chris Ehlers, a 43-year-old part way through a sex change, has taken her employer to court for discriminating against her since she became "Christine".

The case will be heard by the Labour Court over three days next week.

Ehlers was fired after her employers, the multinational steel retailer Bohler Uddeholm Africa, found that she had begun a series of sex change procedures in 2008. She claims in court papers that she was fired as a sales representative for the company "on the grounds of her sexual status".