Helsinki - Residents of a Helsinki apartment block have asked the country's top equality officials to rule on whether their transsexual neighbour, formerly a man, can be banned from a women's sauna.
The appeal came after all the women living in the block of flats quit using the sauna in protest at the transsexual's attempts to bathe at times designated for women, the Finnish tabloid newspaper Ilta-Sanomat reported. The case has perplexed officials and will test the bounds of Finnish sex discrimination legislation.