Chinese netizens are celebrating a landmark court ruling regarding employment discrimination against transgender people. Dangdang.com, a Chinese ecommerce platform once seen as an Amazon-equivalent, was ruled to have infringed an employee’s rights after it fired a worker who underwent sex reassignment surgery.

A court in Beijing delivered a 1,000-word final judgment in the case, including a call for an inclusive and tolerant social environment for people who wish to express their gender identity as differently to how others may perceive of it.

The news, announced on Friday July 3, has sparked a heated national debate on transgender people’s rights in the workplace. A large majority of online citizens seemingly support the court decision, with one survey recording that 81.9% of the more than 326,000 surveyed viewed the news positively. The most upvoted comment on that same poll on social media site Weibo reads, “[The defendant] has become a female after the transgender surgery, why can she not go to the female bathrooms?” Read morevia Radii