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PHOTO: ADRIAN EVANS/STUFF Artist and curator Ema Tavola says estate agents shouldn’t make assumptions about people’s gender identity or political views.
A real estate company has apologised “unreservedly” after a letting agent was alleged to have told a prospective tenant that a neighbour was transgender.
Ema Tavola says she was concerned when the real estate agent told her they had to “disclose” something about the neighbour.
Tavola, a mother, thought the agent would say the neighbour was “a sex offender or something”.
But then the south Auckland agent allegedly told her: “The person upstairs is a transgender person.”
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