REVEALED: Britain's shocking bias against transgender workers

UK employers are shockingly biased against transgender candidates, with one in three employers admitting they are “less likely” to hire a transgender person and nearly half (43%) unsure if they would recruit a transgender worker.

The findings, published by Crossland Employment Solicitors, found that the retail sector has the highest number (47%) of businesses unlikely to employ a transgender person, followed by IT (45%), leisure and hospitality (35%) and manufacturing (34%).

The financial services industry is more open to the idea of hiring transgender workers with a third (34%) agreeable with the idea, along with the legal sector (33%) and construction and engineering (25%).

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Beverley Sunderland, Managing Director of Crossland Employment Solicitors, explained that this bias is harming the lives of trans people.