In 1995, the group was at the centre of a legal dispute when Kimberly Nixon, a trans woman, complained against the organization in the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. Nixon slammed the Vancouver Rape Relief for not accepting transwomen to the training program for volunteer counsellors. The verdict of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal to award Nixon a 7,500$ compensation led to a series of appeals. The B.C. Court of Appeal, in a unanimous decision by a three-judge panel, ruled in 2005 that Vancouver Rape Relief has the right to exclude Kimberly Nixon as a volunteer counsellor. The court ruling noted that the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal was accurate when it found, in 2001, that Rape Relief performed an act of discrimination by rejecting Nixon as a counsellor. However, the court determined that Vancouver Rape Relief, a non-profit group, is entitled to legal protections that balance group rights against individual rights. [2] The Supreme Court of Canada backed this verdict in 2007. [3]
Kimberly Nixon
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-trans-woman-says-she-hopes-funding-cut-to-vancouver-rape-crisis-group/
Same person?