immutability

The article discusses the conceptual challange that addiction and mental health pose in being not immutable, pose for establishing prima facia discrimination and how courts/adjudicators have dealt with it. The article addresses the test to determine indirect discrimination and the need to include indirect discrimination to achieve substantive equality. 

Explores the social construction of heavy weight as a disability, with considerations of illness, aesthetic, and blame; reviews Canadian human rights cases in which obesity has been considered as a disability; discusses mythopoeia and its affect on the social construction models.