by Jonathon Van Maren, The Bridgehead
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has struck again.
In February, the tribunal ordered former public-school trustee Barry Neufeld to pay a staggering $750,000 for his public statements on transgenderism. In September, they ordered a doctor to pay $28,000 after he refused to administer puberty blockers. And this month, the tribunal ordered LifeLabs to pay over $32,000 for “misgendering” three people.
The complaints against LifeLabs were brought by “Noa Moses,” who identifies as “non-binary” and objected to being required to select male or female to get lab services; “Devan Snow,” who identifies as transgender, objected to the lab using biological sex to interpret blood-test results; and “Vincent Viezzer,” who identifies as transgender and was angry that the lab reports frequently changed the sex marker to “female” or “unspecified.”
For these ideological crimes, BC’s Human Rights Tribunal ordered LifeLabs and a subsidiarity to pay Moses, Snow, and Viezzer a collective $32,000 for “injury to dignity,” an additional $2,965.07 between the three of them for “lost wages” for the time they spent attending the tribunal, and $11,000 for the “expert witnesses” who were called to testify in the case.
The “injury to dignity” came from the apparent confusion of staff members when confronted with someone who identified as neither male nor female. As the CBC reported: