

You see phrasing like that in the news quite a lot, where they squeeze their occupation into a sentence. Here’s another random example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw62y04r563po
Former fish and chip shop owner John Dutton suffered a severe stroke…
Maybe it looks a bit off because you’d usually write “painter and decorator”? It’s normal to say “painter decorator” for short though.
Banning all trans people sounds like discrimination to me. If you want to hide behind the (bullshit) Supreme Court decision, you have to allow trans men too. Surely?