Category: Canada

A Canadian court has ruled that deliberately misgendering someone in the workplace is a human rights violation. The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal made the ruling on 29 September after Jessie Nelson complained that their former employer discriminated against them. Nelson, who is non-binary and genderfluid, said the restaurant where they worked, Buono Osteria, deliberately used the wrong pronouns to address them. Gendered nicknames such as “sweetheart,” “sweetie,” and “honey” were allegedly used to refer to Nelson. Devyn Cousineau, a representative of the Tribunal, wrote that pronouns are “a fundamental…