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https://nationalpost.com/news/canad...s-complaint-transgender-woman-toronto-shelter
By background, British Columbia had a relatively similar case two decades ago relating to a transgender individual who wanted to work at a women's shelter, in which the transgender individual lost. However, that decision was based on the following statutory provision, which does not exist in Ontario: https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcca/doc/2005/2005bcca601/2005bcca601.html
A woman has filed a human rights complaint against a Toronto shelter for female recovering addicts, claiming staff forced her to share a small double room with a pre-operative male-to-female transgender person.
The formal complaint against the Jean Tweed Centre, which runs Palmerston House, followed Kristi Hanna’s efforts to inquire about her own legal rights in this unusual situation, only to be told by Ontario’s Human Rights Legal Support Centre that, by describing her new roommate as a “man,” Hanna was the one engaged in illegal discrimination.
Hanna said the woman is in her late 20s, has facial hair, chest hair, and wears large black combat boots that “trigger” her with their thumping. She said at one communal dinner, the roommate talked about having had a wife in the past, and a pregnant fiancée, and was overheard talking about some unidentified women as “hot” and expressing her preference for Latina women. Hanna said her mannerisms came across as “piggish” and inappropriate.
By background, British Columbia had a relatively similar case two decades ago relating to a transgender individual who wanted to work at a women's shelter, in which the transgender individual lost. However, that decision was based on the following statutory provision, which does not exist in Ontario: https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcca/doc/2005/2005bcca601/2005bcca601.html
41 If a charitable, philanthropic, educational, fraternal, religious or social organization or corporation that is not operated for profit has as a primary purpose the promotion of the interests and welfare of an identifiable group or class of persons characterized by a physical or mental disability or by a common race, religion, age, sex, marital status, political belief, colour, ancestry or place of origin, that organization or corporation must not be considered to be contravening this Code because it is granting a preference to members of the identifiable group or class of persons.