title: Victory for transgendered people in gaining protection against discrimination.
abstract: On 7 June 2000, the BC Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the Vancouver Rape Relief Society to prevent the provincial human rights commission from hearing a complaint that it had discriminated against a transgendered woman. Kimberly Nixon filed a complaint with the BC Human Rights Commission in August 1995, alleging that the Vancouver Rape Relief Society had refused to allow her to work as a volunteer counselor because she had not been biologically female at birth.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Elliott
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011287:Prejudice; D014189:Transsexualism