Transgender employee 'impossible in office'

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Transgender employee 'impossible in office'
20 July, 2010


http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20100720221931840C736378


Colleagues of a woman who claims she was unfairly dismissed from her job because she underwent a sex change said she became impossible to work with and they started to fear her.

Three colleagues of 43-year-old Christine Ehlers, previously known as Chris, testified in the Johannesburg Labour Court on Tuesday that Ehlers who was diagnosed as bipolar, came into the office in the morning, threw her diary and keys onto the desk and mumbled under her breath.