Transgender doctor Larin Kayataş has been expelled from public service and dismissed “because of public morality”.

News Center- Transgender Doctor Larin Kayataş released a statement on her social media account and announced that she has been expelled from public service and dismissed from her profession “because of public morality” following a year of systematic mobbing, pressure, and disciplinary investigations.

In her statement, Dr. Larin Kayataş asked, “Since when has the participation in March 8, stating that I vote for the CHP and being a trans woman been considered an obstacle to being a doctor in this country? I am told that my social media posts do not comply with public morality, they are not in line with how a civil servant is supposed to behave and act, and I am supposed to have moral values as a young woman. In fact, no one can intervene in what I do in my private life! No one can interfere with my private life by using public service as an excuse!”

“I have been condemned to social death”

Noting that she cannot work in private hospitals as her compulsory duty is not over; Dr. Larin Kayataş said in her statement, "I have been condemned to social death. All these efforts that I made alone for years have gone to waste. The reason for this is being myself, having the lifestyle that I want, rejecting the systematic pressure in the name of public morality and being a woman living her sexuality freely.”