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Peter Hayes claims the Vancouver Police Department denied him the permit needed to drive as a chauffer because of his kinky sexuality. Now a Canadian tribunal will adjudicate the matter.
The VPD tried to stop the tribunal from hearing the case on the grounds that the BC Human Rights Code doesn’t protect BDSM players from discrimination. Both the BC Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal dismissed the VPD’s argument and sent the case back to tribunal for a hearing.
BC’s Human Rights Tribunal hears man allegedly denied chauffeur licence
Earlier: BDSM Orientation : A Human Right?
Sadism, masochism, sexual submissiveness, erotic dominance - are these components of a person’s sexual identity. Of course they are. Only the bland and blind who determinedly avert their eyes from atypical sexuality can doubt this.
Also Sadomasochism and Sexual Orientation.