Stopps v Just Ladies Fitness (Metrotown) Ltd was a discrimination by sex case heard before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal that was significant in Canadian law because it found that a women-only admission policy of a public gym was not discrimination.
On October 2, 2004, Vancouver resident Ralph Stopps applied to the Just Ladies Fitness facility in Metrotown and was denied membership because he is male.
The facility also claimed that because it is cleaner, has smaller weights that are more suitable for females, and because it has prenatal fitness classes its women-only admission policy was justified.
The Human Rights Tribunal ruled that the complainant had failed to prove on a balance of probabilities all the elements required to demonstrate that illegal discrimination had happened.
Second, the tribunal found that the complainant failed to prove that his dignity has been adversely affected by his denial of membership.