Alan Henness, a retired electronics engineer, has made it his mission to highlight employers’ infractions of equality law. He became interested in the issue after his wife, Maria MacLachlan, was assaulted by a transactivist in 2017. Under the influence of the Equal Treatment Bench Book, the judge ordered her to refer to her transwoman assailant as ‘she’ while giving evidence. Though the defendant was found guilty, the judge reprimanded MacLachlan and denied her financial compensation because she kept forgetting to use female pronouns for the obviously male person who had punched her in the
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