A conservative Langley-based group is attempting to make a human rights complaint about the bathroom signs at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal in Vancouver.

Kari Simpson鈥檚 Culture Guard announced it has launched a new complaint, targeting the head of the Human Rights Tribunal and the attorney general for B.C., because signs on the women鈥檚 room at the tribunal鈥檚 offices read 鈥淭rans People Welcome.鈥�

According to a complaint filed last week by Simpson, a woman with Culture Guard allegedly had her rights violated because when using the washroom stall, she 鈥渉eard a loud male voice鈥� talking in the stall next to her.

The complaint singles out Morgane Oger as the woman in the other stall.

In December, Oger was before the board alleging discrimination after Bill Whatcott distributed flyers making various claims about Oger, a trans woman. Oger was a 2017 NDP candidate in a Vancouver riding during the last provincial election; she narrowly lost to Liberal incumbent Sam Sullivan.

The complaint claims that the Culture Guard member felt intimidated.

鈥淗er security of person was violated, she remained in the stall until she was certain that the biological man, Oger, had gone for fear of being bullied,鈥� the complaint stated.

Last spring, Oger was among the organizers of a peaceful counter protest against an anti-SOGI rally attended by Simpson.

Simpson told Black Press Media that she had invited the Hells Angels to come to the rally with her group, although Vancouver Police Department officials could not confirm any attended.

Oger said she believed Simpson was attempting to bully her with the complaint.

鈥淜ari Simpson鈥檚 recognition as a vexatious litigant is long overdue,鈥� Oger added.

She noted that she and Simpson have one point of agreement.

鈥淚 agree that every building should have a single stall washroom,鈥� Oger said.

Single-stall washrooms provide a place where anyone, including those who identify as being gender non-binary, can use and feel secure, Oger said.

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Simpson鈥檚 demands in her complaint include creating 鈥渨omen only鈥� and 鈥渕en only鈥� washrooms at the BC Human Rights Tribunal, and that the tribunal define 鈥渟exual harassment鈥� to include 鈥渁 male using a women鈥檚 washroom and a female using a male鈥檚 washroom鈥� in provincial law, and to essentially redefine gender in B.C. law as being only about biological sex.

She asked further for $180,000 in damages.

The majority of complaints to the Human Rights Tribunal do not go before the panel itself, either because they are dealt with through mediation or because they are not found to meet the criteria the tribunal will consider.