‘Trans’ toilet protest means no more ‘ladies’ and ‘gents’

Erin Bisson, who was known as Robert before she identified herself as a woman, complained to the Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal that she had been discriminated against after the operator said that she would have to use the disabled toilets, rather than the ‘ladies’.

Condor later admitted to the tribunal that there had been a ‘non-intentional and non-malicious act of discrimination’ towards Ms Bisson.

The company will now remove the words ladies and gentlemen on all of its toilet doors and use the appropriate gender symbol instead, after it worked with Ms Bisson and the tribunal to come up with a satisfactory resolution to the complaint and Condor has until 30 June to implement the changes.

Read the full story in Wednesday’s JEP.

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