Kimberly Nixon

Biography

Kimberly Nixon is a transgender woman who filed a human rights complaint against Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter Society (VRRS) for discrimination. VRRS argued that Nixon, a transgender woman, did not have the same life experiences as a woman who was assigned female at birth, and could not volunteer as a peer rape counselor. She brought her case to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal which ruled in her favour. VRRS opposed the decision, bringing it to the Supreme Court of British Columbia, which ruled against the original tribunal decision. Nixon then appealed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal, which upheld the decision in favour of VRRS, and then eventually the Supreme Court of Canada, which dismissed her request to appeal the decision against her case on February 1, 2007