Sunday, August 12, 2018

Woman protests sharing abuse-shelter room with man who says he’s female

Woman protests sharing abuse-shelter room with man who says he’s female
"A Canadian woman seeking help in an abuse shelter fled the facility after she was placed in a room for two nights with a man who says he’s a woman.
They were assigned to the double room by the managers of the Palmerston House, run by the Jean Tweed Center.
The National Post reported Kristi Hanna has filed a formal complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario after the Ontario Human Rights Legal Support Center warned that her description of the roommate as a “man” might be considered illegal discrimination.
Since fleeing the facility, she’s been sleeping on friends’ couches.
The two nights at the abuse shelter “were hell for me,” she said.
“It’s affecting everyone in the house. This can completely ruin your recovery, let alone your safety, let alone your life,” she told the Post.
The center is for women who are recovering addicts, and she claimed the staff “forced her” to share a small double room with a “pre-operative male-to-female transgender person.”...
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