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Thanks for the advice  
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You're welcome!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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A man who has worked at a solicitors, as a solicitor, for 39 years suddenly decides that he no longer wants to be known as Mike, but wants to be known as Melanie.
Melanie has been on hormone treatment and is on the list for GRS soon.
Melanie has had trouble at home with the Hausfrau unt Kinder, unsurprisingly.
Then Melanie turns up at work in frock and make-up.
Melanie is escorted from building and promptly fired.
How do I know this?
A friend of Michelle's is his secretary and has spilled the beans.
Now, I think that it is generally illegal to fire someone of the grounds of sexual orientation or gender reassignment.
Secondly, it seems foolish for a legal firm to do it, by breaking the law they could lose the right to practise.
Thirdly, and this is the really moronic thing to do, do not fire the firms TOP PROSECUTION LAWYER!
As 'Mike' this guy was sh*t-hot at suing people and companies and had earned a fortune for himself, the company and his clients.
Although 'Melanie' may be wearing a gold lame dress and a pair of slingbacks, that forensic mind will now be outside the tent pissing in!
Best of luck Melanie.
No pun intended, but it takes balls to do what you did.
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... wasn't that an episode of Boston Legal?
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You hired a man with these qualifications.
Would you hire a woman with the same qualifications?
So what's the problem?
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Sounds like craniorectal impaction on the part of the pointy hairs.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Assuming this is real (it does seem a little too close to the setup for an online drama piece to be sure!), it does seem very odd. I can't see how that's not straight up and down sexual discrimination.
I'm sure it's a huge shock when a man you've worked with for decades is suddenly a woman, but that doesn't make firing him/her justifiable.
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Obligitory Monty Python reference... From now on I want you all to call me Loretta.
Perhaps there is more to the story than meets the eye. It isn't legal on this side of the pond and I wouldn't think that it is leagal to dismiss someone based on the gender reassignment on your side either. Good luck to Melenie.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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It happened at a contractor's office where a man decided to become a woman (not sure if everything was removed at that point). The office didn't fire him, but the women refused to allow him/her to use their restroom since they knew him for years and felt uncomfortable. So s/he was asked to use a restroom on another floor. Not sure what happened afterwards since I quit my company and moved away.
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Unless the firm can prove that it had valid grounds, other than for gender reassignment, what they did is classic discrimination and unlawful discrimination. Me suspects that there is a lot more to this than meets the eye.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Now, I think that it is generally illegal to fire someone of the grounds of sexual orientation or gender reassignment.
Probably true, but I doubt they'd be stupid enough to fire someone for being female or undergoing GRS. They'd find some other, more legally acceptable reason to fire her.
I suspect that a lot of HR departments would try their best to keep record of every wrongdoing ever in case they need to fire someone at a moment's notice. I hope this is just baseless paranoia, but I doubt it.
What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
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Quote: gender reassignment.
As if that were possible. One's genitals do not determine one's gender.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well they do point in the right direction...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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RyanDev wrote: As if that were possible. One's genitals do not determine one's gender.
Science wrote: Gender is the range of physical, biological, mental and behavioral characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity
They certainly have a significant part to play in it.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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At a place I used to work there was a guy who had a sex change.
After the process he came back to work and changed his name to "Amanda"
From that point on whenever I saw him all that went on in my head was "A Man duh!"
Never said it out loud - instant dismissal.
Still, it made me internally chuckle.
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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Dalek Dave wrote: Now, I think that it is generally illegal to fire someone of the grounds of sexual orientation or gender reassignment.
And what makes you think that?
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It is a Labour Stronghold so I have no illusions.
But I do hope to save the deposit.
Clickity[^]
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What? I see no Daleks?! 
I think you might have done better if you had called yourself 'Dalek Dave' but good luck all the same. 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Splendid, now I have both your name and address BWHAAAHAHHAAAHAAAAAA!!!!!!
Personal Hat: Good luck, hope you win.
Political Hat: Hope you come 2nd. Normally I'd say 3rd, but the Lib-Dems have proven their worth in gov't.
I thought you were all UKIP now?
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I'm worried now. Who do you want to come first????!
Uh-oh, the political slippery slope. I'm bailing out now..
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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you better beat the UKIP!
Or I will tell DeathByChocolate that you have hidden her chocolate!
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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If he did hide my chocolate I would scare him so much he would 'lose his deposit'! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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I would be more than happy for you to help me lose my deposit.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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