The owner of a Windsor, Ont., waxing salon, who was ordered to pay $35,000 to a transgender woman who claimed she was discriminated against while seeking a leg waxing, has appealed the human rights tribunal’s ruling.

The incident occurred in 2018, but the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario did not issue its ruling against Mad Wax Windsor Inc. until late May 2024. Jason Carruthers, the owner of the salon, filed an application for judicial review to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on June 18, seeking to have the decision of tribunal vice-chair Karen Dawson quashed.