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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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[–] 5 points 1 day ago

This article (scientificamerican.com) contains a really nice graphic illustrating all the various reasons why looking at gender in binary is flawed from the get-go. Much more useful to understand the person individually; respecting pronouns being just the tip of the iceberg of that.

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