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LifeLabs in B.C. ordered to pay $32K for misgendering transgender, non-binary patients: Human Rights Tribunal (www.cbc.ca)
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B.C.'s Human Rights Tribunal has ordered LifeLabs and a subsidiary to pay $32,000 to three transgender and non-binary people for "injury to their dignity" after separate instances of discrimination.

Tribunal member Theressa Etmanski said in her decision, posted last week, that LifeLabs and its subsidiary Excelleris Technologies misgendered and outed the three patients at service centres in Vancouver and Burnaby in 2019.

Etmanski also ordered LifeLabs to pay almost $3,000 in lost wages and $11,100 for an expert report.

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[–] 11 points 1 day ago (1 child)

  1. People don't stop having a gender just because they're in a doctor's office. Gender-affirming care starts with treating people like themselves.

  2. "Sex" is not always a "one or the other" situation, if you assume that all cis women have ovaries then you're going to be wrong about every cis women with a hysterectomy. The actual medical best-practice is an anatomical inventory.

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago

    You would be amazed how often CIS women are assumed to have ovaries.

    My neighbour is in her 40s and hasn't had ovaries or a uterus in 15ish years due to cancer. The fucking docs ask if there's a chance of her being pregnant constantly, unless she's dealing with the specialists she dealt with during her cancer treatment.

    The TLDR is that doctors need to get their shit together, it's fucking embarassing how these old stupid mentalities still dominate that field.

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