COMM 393 Lecture Notes - Summary Offence, Avail, Relief Society
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Kimberly nixon is a post-operative male-to-female transsexual woman who applied to volunteer as a peer counsellor at vancouver rape relief society in 1995. The society is a non-profit organization that provides services to victims of male violence. It consists of unpaid volunteers and paid staff members. She was asked to leave the organization because the society would not accept volunteers who had not spent their entire lives as female. Ms. nixon laid a complaint with the human rights tribunal (tribunal) alleging she was discriminated against because of her sex. Her claim was made pursuant to s. 8(1) of the human rights code, r. s. b. c. 1996, c. 210 (code) on the basis that she was denied a service customarily available to the public and pursuant to s. 13(1) of the code on the basis that she was refused employment. Tribunal and she was awarded . 00 in damages. The society sought a judicial review of the tribunal"s decision in the british columbia supreme court.
