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Amy Hamm: Misgendering case an absurd waste of time and resources

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20.02.2026

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Amy Hamm: Misgendering case an absurd waste of time and resources

Physician, receptionist summoned before rights tribunal for addressing new walk-in patient by the pronoun listed on their medical records

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An Ontario court has ruled that the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) must hold a new hearing, with a different adjudicator, in the case of a Black trans man who complained of discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression at a walk-in medical clinic.

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Jordan Renae Thorne originally filed an HRTO complaint alleging he was “repeatedly misgendered” by a physician and an office assistant at a walk-in clinic in December 2017.

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The Ontario court dismissed the complainant’s secondary claim of racial discrimination but insists the tribunal did not do a proper legal analysis regarding the misgendering.

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