{
  "id": 18847652,
  "title": "LifeLabs in B.C. ordered to pay $32K for misgendering transgender, non-binary patients: Human Rights Tribunal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/07/lifelabs-in-b-c-ordered-to-pay-32k-for-misgendering-transgender-non",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-07T13:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
    "slug": "cbc-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lifelabs-human-rights-tribunal-bc-9.7412649"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "B.C.'s Human Rights Tribunal has ordered LifeLabs and a subsidiary to pay three transgender and non-binary people $32,000 for \"injury to their dignity\" after the staff at the company misgendered and outed them at service centres in Vancouver and Burnaby in 2019.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "B.C. lab ordered to pay $32K for misgendering transgender, non-binary patients",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/b-c-lab-ordered-to-pay-32k-for-misgendering-transgender-non-binary",
        "published": "2026-11-09T06:37:18.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}