The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a B.C. family doctor to pay $28,100 for declining to administer a puberty blocking drug to a transgender teenager in 2021.
Dr. Henry Ajaero said his refusal to inject the biologically male teen with a puberty blocker was motivated by clinical concerns with his lack of experience in past treatment for gender transition and his Christian religious beliefs, which do not recognize gender ideology.
“The Code is concerned with impacts and not intent,” tribunal member Devyn Cousineau wrote in her Sept. 1 decision, adding that “Child Q was denied access to medical services because of her gender identity.”…