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BC Ferries Fights Transsexual’s Claims

Once, he was John Marshall Magnone, a West Coast mariner who worked for the ferry division of a British Columbia government ministry. Then John became Deborah and got a job as a deckhand for BC Ferries. Now she claims her gender switch cost her a job with the province's main ferry company, according to a report on the Globeandmail.com. Ms. Magnone claims she was fired last year because she is a transsexual. She has filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. But BC Ferries says she's an incompetent sailor and its CEO says the company will fight her complaint. In her complaint, Ms. Magnone says she believes her employers fired her when they learned she is a transsexual. "It is Ms.