Ten pubs across Sydney and Canberra have been ordered to change the name of long-running pub favourite night Tranny Bingo.
Sydney law firm Allens last week sent the pubs letters on behalf of a transgender woman named Katherine Wolfgramme, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The letters demanded the pubs stop using the term ‘Tranny Bingo’ as it is ‘highly offensive and distressing.’
Transvestite Daniel Floyd, also known as Penny Tration (left) started Tranny Bingo in Bondi in 2000. It’s now hosted at over 15 pubs across Sydney and Canberra
Ten pubs across Sydney and Canberra have been ordered to change the name of long-running pub favourite night Tranny Bingo (Tranny Bingo at Pendle Hill Inn pictuired)
Transvestite Daniel Floyd, also known as Penny Tration started Tranny Bingo in Bondi in 2000. It’s now hosted at over 15 pubs across Sydney and Canberra.
One pub that received the letter, The Pendle Hill Inn, in Sydney’s west, has stopped running Tranny Bingo, but licensee Peter Adams said the demand was ‘ridiculous’.
‘The word “tranny”, for some people, is not acceptable. For a lot of people, it still is acceptable,’ Mr Adams told The Daily Telegraph.
‘The letter has made absolutely no difference to us at all. They haven’t got a legal leg to stand on.’
Part of the letter said: ‘Our client is not requesting that the event cease. Rather, her request is simply that you change the description of the event and associated advertising.’
If the request was not met by December 22 further action would be taken with the Australian Human Rights Commission, the letter said.
Other pubs that received the letter include The Coopers Hotel in Newtown, Potts Point Hotel in Kings Cross and the Balmain Hotel in Balmain.
One pub that received the letter, The Pendle Hill Inn, in Sydney’s west, has stopped running Tranny Bingo, but licensee Peter Adams said the demand was ‘ridiculous’
Ten pubs across Sydney and Canberra have been ordered to change the name of long-running pub favourite night Tranny Bingo