The Employment Tribunal recently considered whether a non-binary employee could rely on the protected characteristic of gender reassignment under section 7 of the Equality Act 2010 and whether repeated incidents of misgendering and deadnaming amounted to unlawful harassment.
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Non-binary employee does not have protected characteristic of gender reassignment - Haech Lockwood v Cheshire and Wirral NHS Foundation Trust & Others

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