B.C. Lab Ordered to Pay $32K for Misgendering Transgender, Non-Binary Patients

B.C. lab ordered to pay $32K for misgendering transgender, non-binary patients

British Columbia's human rights tribunal has ruled that a private laboratory provider must pay $32,000 in damages, along with other costs, for discriminating against transgender and non-binary patients. The tribunal found LifeLabs and its subsidiary Ex...

LifeLabs Ordered by BC Tribunal to Pay $32K for Misgendering Three Patients

The office that houses the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal is seen in Vancouver on March 28, 2023. (The Canadian Press/Nono Shen)

LifeLabs ordered to pay $32,000 after B.C. tribunal finds discrimination against transgender patients

Floyd Brenz., Philippine Canadian Inquirer November 08, 2026 A British Columbia human rights tribunal has ordered laboratory services provider LifeLabs and its subsidiary to pay a combined $32,000 to three […]

LifeLabs in B.C. ordered to pay $32K for misgendering, outing patients: Human Rights Tribunal

B.C.'s Human Rights Tribunal has ordered LifeLabs and a subsidiary to pay three transgender and non-binary people $32,000 for "injury to their dignity" after the staff at the company misgendered and outed them at service centres in Vancouver and Burnaby in 2019.

Trans-identifying trio wins $32K from LifeLabs at B.C. tribunal

Subhead:A B.C. tribunal says the “sex” box on your health card can’t be relied on to document your physiology, and now LifeLabs is paying the price.#   B.C.’s woke Human Rights Tribunal has done it again! This time, it’s ordering LifeLabs to pay three trans-identifying individuals a combined $32,000. Two of them won because the lab went by the sex on their own government ID instead of what they told staff at the counter. The third won over three…

LifeLabs Misgendering Ruling: $32,000 for Trans Patients

A B.C. tribunal found LifeLabs staff refused to recognize a non-binary patient and wrote ‘FTM’ on a trans man’s form. It owes $32,000 and must offer a private space.