Canada: An Indigenous Trans Woman in Ontario Won a Six-Year Legal Battle Against a Waxing Salon

The anonymous woman was awarded more than CAD $35,000 in damages.

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has awarded an Indigenous transgender woman more than CAD $35,000 (about $25,500) in damages, following her six-year legal battle against a waxing salon owner who discriminated against and publicly humiliated her, as the court determined.

The anonymous complainant, known as A.B. during the proceedings, filed her case in 2018 after she attempted to book a leg waxing service from the salon Mad Wax in Windsor, Ontario, owned by Jason Carruthers. After speaking with an employee who later testified that she did not know what the word “transgender” meant, A.B. received a call back from Carruthers, who assumed that A.B. wanted a Brazilian wax and told her that nobody would offer that service to “someone like you” — referring to her status as a trans woman, per court documents.

More: https://www.them.us/story/canada-waxing-salon-indigenous-trans-woman-lawsuit