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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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The problem often to me comes from wrongful abstraction of social markers by people educated in the life sciences. Most individuals coming from the STEM sector tend to align right due to the fundamentalist fatalist perception education in the sciences procurs. The issue is they lack the self-awareness to realize that they are not educated sufficiently on social topics.

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