Subhead:The civil tribunal ruled against an image critical of the complainant’s gender identity, highlighting tensions around free speech vs. claims of transphobia.#
A recent eyebrow-raising decision has been handed down by the B.C. Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) after a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman filed a complaint regarding a meme-like image posted online about them.
A publication ban on the case, entitled AQ v. BT, was ordered by the CRT’s Vice Chair, Eric Regehr, which prevents us from being able to publish the names of the parties involved.
The CRT has awarded $7,500 to AQ, the trans-identifying individual, after the tribunal ruled that one of the images shared by BT, an activist who is critical of gender ideology, was altered to depict AQ in a more masculine form and was intended to undermine AQ’s gender identity.
