365Gay.com – by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(London) A transsexual man who alleges he was fired by multi-national banking company HSBC because of his corrected gender will be allowed to appeal a labor tribunal ruling that dismissed most of his case.
Peter Lewis is seeking $9 million in damages. It is the biggest case of its kind since Britain banned discrimination on the basis of sexuality.
HSBC had lured Lewis away from his former job Societe Generale, where he was head of global client trading. But in the five months he was at HSBC he said in his claim that he was subjected to continued homophobic slurs.