Kimberly Nixon is a transgender woman who filed a human rights complaint against Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter Society (VRRS) for discrimination.
She lived privately as a transgender woman and publicly as a male until 1990 when she underwent sex reassignment surgery alongside hormone replacement therapy at age 33.
[1] Inspired by her own past experience, Nixon applied to volunteer at Vancouver Rape Relief Society, a non-profit organization that provides services for women who have been victims of male violence.
[5] The society argued that they didn’t allow males into the group and to qualify as a volunteer she must have been a woman who experienced sex-based oppression from birth.
Nixon won the Human Rights Tribunal on the grounds that the society discriminated against her and was awarded $7,500 for injury of self-respect and dignity.
[9] This allowed the society to abide by its female-only membership policy, based on its mandate to provide services to female victims of male violence.