A prominent LGBTQ advocate is taking her complaint against the Edmonton Police Service to the province's human rights commission after a police dispatcher repeatedly misgendered her and assumed her transgender friend was a sex worker. Panas filed the complaint to the Alberta Human Rights Commission on Tuesday, and it was accepted on Thursday. Listen to an excerpt from that call, now the subject of a human rights complaint against Edmonton Police Service. - Marni PanasFrustrated by what she calls a lack of accountability, Panas filed the human rights complaint against EPS on Tuesday, days before the one-year deadline to submit lapsed. EPS will have an opportunity to respond to the complaint before the human rights commission determines next steps.

Source: CBC News April 12, 2020 13:52 UTC