A TRANSSEXUAL who was refused service in a shop after being called a drag queen is seeking $25,000 after winning a discrimination case.

Gold Coast sex worker Ms Malone, 28, brought a complaint against Ultimate Convenient Stores, trading as IGA Express Broadbeach, and assistant manager Josh Aberdeen.

She told the tribunal Aberdeen had laughed when another man called her a drag queen in 2003 and later refused to serve her in the store.