DailyMail.co.uk – By Elizabeth Day
The first transsexual officer in the Armed Forces is set to sue the Ministry of Defence for unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination.
Jan Hamilton, a former male captain in the Parachute Regiment who is now living as a woman, will lodge court papers claiming she was sexually discriminatedagainst and unfairly dismissed in April from a ?45,000-a-year post.
Captain Hamilton, 42, had been due to become head of media relations for the British Army in Gibraltar in May.
But after she refused to turn up at a medical examination dressed in a male uniform ? which her lawyers argue would have been ‘humiliating and demeaning’ ? the job offer was withdrawn.
Her lawyers have, to no avail, repeatedly sought an informal meeting with her Army bosses to settle the issue out of court. Captain Hamilton has now been without a salary for four months and has racked up several thousand pounds in legal bills.