Transgender woman awarded €5,000 for being told to close AIB bank account

The Equality Tribunal has awarded a transgender woman €5,000 compensation after it ruled she had been discriminated against by AIB.

In October 2010, Deirdre O'Byrne contacted her bank to inform them that she had changed her name by deed poll, and would henceforth at all times use the name Deirdre Katherine O'Byrne.