dailymail.co.uk Trans woman who said she was not allowed into female-only spa never visited the site
A transgender woman who accused a female-only Korean spa of discrimination after claiming she was barred from entering never even set foot on the property. Olympus Spa in Washington state was ordered by a judge to admit pre-op trans women with penises despite nudity being required in communal areas. That came after activist Haven Wilvich complained to the Washington State Human Rights Commission that Olympus Spa discriminated against her by refusing her access during a visit in January 2020. But a lawyer for the spa, Tracy Tribbett, whose suit against the commission was thrown out by a federal judge on June 5, has said Wilvich never actually visited the spa in person - a position its owners have held for years. Since that order this month, Wilvich has herself admitted that she never visited the spa. Now says she was denied access by the spa's owner over the phone. Tribbett told DailyMail.com that Wilvich's confession that she lied in the complaint is evidence that she did not make an honest attempt to report a violation of her rights, but instead a calculated attack on a business with values that she did not like. Haven Wilvich originally claimed that she was denied entry to a traditional Korean female-only spa in Washington after a visit in January 2020. She has now told the Lynnwood Times that she was actually denied access after making a phone call, and not an in-person visit A copy of Wilvich's complaint made to the Washington State Human Rights Commission. Highlighted is the sentence in which she says she 'went' to the spa She also cast doubt on Wilvich's latest claim, saying that the owner of the business does not take phone calls and is prepared to review telephone records for proof of that call and also hopes to take the case to the Supreme Court. 'This is not a direct attack on Haven Wilvich, other than to say that she's not being truthful and was just looking for trouble,' said Tribbett. 'It adds fuel to the concept that the Human Rights Commission is playing with activism, rather than investigating complaints accurately,' she said. 'They're not a proactive entity or agency of the state that goes out and polices.' To support her client's position that the spa came under an unsolicited attack she pointed out that within months of January 2020 Wilvich completed gender reassignment surgery, according to her own blog, and that would have allowed her access to the spa.
