Employment judge Kathryn Patricia Ramsden said: “Despite the [company’s] position, the Tribunal does not consider the insult ‘w----r’ to be a gender-neutral term.

“The panel members’ own experiences of use of that term is that it is applied to men, and that there are equivalent but different swear words that are specifically used in common parlance to insult women.”

The tribunal - heard in Croydon, south London - heard that Miss Fischer began working for London United Busways at their Hounslow bus yard in 2020 until her contract was terminated on January 15 2021.

She said she was called a “w----r” by another driver on January 13, 2021, and that the company was “male-dominated”.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/24/trans-woman-slur-discrimination-men-tribunal-rules/