Korean Spa Can’t Escape Agreement to Allow Transgender Women

A Korean-style women’s spa lost its bid for a court order voiding a settlement agreement under which it had pledged to provide service to transgender women.

Olympus Spa sued to set aside the pre-findings settlement agreement, alleging it had been forced into it by the Washington state Human Rights Commission following a complaint by a transgender woman who’d been turned away because the spa’s patrons are traditionally nude and she’d not yet undergone sex-reassignment surgery.

The spa was warned by the commission that its failure to accede to the accord would result in the patron’s complaint being referred to the ...