Slander Case vs. TS Rejected

By Australian Broadcasting Corporation


What's believed to be the first case of transgender vilification to go the New South Wales Equal Opportunity Tribunal, has been thrown out.

A trans-gender person from Sydney, Norrie May-Welby, alleged she had been vilified in the gay newspaper Capital-Q-Weekly, because she's a transgender.

A political debate within Sydney's transgender community about control of the Gender Centre at Petersham last year, led to a series of fiery letters to the newspaper. Ms May-Welby took the author of one letter and the newspaper to the tribunal, under the Anti-Discrimination Act.

But the tribunal has found that the letter taken in context with the acrimonious debate within the community did not vilify Ms May-Welby.


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