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Jamie Sarkonak: At a human rights tribunal, it's better to be a transwoman
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal went out of its way to accommodate a trans inmate, but wouldn't even give a hearing to a female victim of sexual violence
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Human rights tribunals have drastically expanded society’s obligations to accommodate transwomen — but biological women seeking sex-based protections aren’t extended the same courtesy.
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One of those regular women, known only as J, had moved into transitional housing on the women’s floor of a B.C. Salvation Army building back in the fall of 2020. She lived there for two years without issue, but when her tenancy ran out in 2022 and she hadn’t found a new place to live, the Salvation Army extended her term and offered to place her in a different building. The problem: that building was trans-inclusive. For this, J filed a human rights complaint.
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J had experienced sexual violence from men before and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. She did not want to be housed with intact male tenants, no matter how they identified. She believed that the Salvation Army had a duty to provide her........