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The discrimination included misgendering and outing three individuals in 2019.","category":"Politics","area":"United States","publishedAt":"2026-11-09T11:45:32.176Z","sourceReportedAt":"2026-11-09T09:06:49.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-11-09T12:00:23.679Z","readTime":"2 min read","scores":{"trust":42,"critic":60,"hype":20,"notes":{"trust":"One outlet provided a full report; 31 others provided digests, corroborating the central claim.","critic":"The full report clearly separates fact from comment and provides specific details about the tribunal's findings.","hype":"The language used in the headlines and digests is factual and avoids sensationalism."}},"tags":["#HumanRights","#Discrimination","#TransgenderRights","#NonBinaryRights","#Healthcare","#LifeLabs"],"entities":["LifeLabs","Excelleris Technologies","British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal","Theressa Etmanski"],"body":[{"type":"key_takeaways","items":["LifeLabs and its subsidiary Excelleris Technologies must pay $32,000 in damages following a British Columbia human rights tribunal ruling.","The tribunal found the companies discriminated against three transgender and non-binary patients in 2019.","Discrimination included misgendering, outing patients, and preventing updates to medical records.","The ruling requires LifeLabs to update policies and staff training on gender identity."]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"British Columbia's human rights tribunal has ordered a private laboratory provider to pay $32,000 in damages for discriminating against transgender and non-binary patients. The tribunal found LifeLabs and its subsidiary Excelleris Technologies engaged in discrimination in 2019 at clinics in Vancouver and Burnaby."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The discrimination involved misgendering and outing three patients. One non-binary individual was told they had to select either male or female for services and was outed in a public space. A transgender patient could not update their gender marker on medical records, and another opted out of cancer screening to avoid being misgendered."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Tribunal member Theressa Etmanski stated that while information about a patient's sex may be medically relevant, there was no evidence to support that the standard practice was medically necessary or justified. LifeLabs has been ordered to update its policies and staff training regarding gender identity and to provide private spaces for patients to discuss their identity."},{"type":"heading","text":"Coverage comparison"},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"None of the left-rated or centre-rated reports mentioned the specific locations of the clinics where the discrimination occurred, Vancouver and Burnaby. 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