Accusations fly at human rights hearing into transgender woman's Brazilian wax complaint

[Alan]

A B.C. Human Rights Tribunal hearing devolved into repeated outbursts and name-calling this week as it considered a transgender woman’s complaint that a home-based salon discriminated against her by denying her a Brazilian wax.

At one point, the complainant compared the business owner to a neo-Nazi. The lawyer for the business owner accused the complainant of engaging in “half-truths and fabrications.” Tribunal adjudicator Devyn Cousineau frequently had to interject to maintain decorum and to keep the hearing from careening off course.

But a substantive question remained at the core of the raucous daylong hearing: should a business be allowed to deny service on the basis of gender identity? Jessica Yaniv, the complainant, told the hearing she was entitled to receive the advertised wax service and that if the tribunal ruled against her it could lead to a “dangerous” precedent.

“You cannot choose who your clientele is going to be,” she said.

However, business owner Marcia Da Silva said she was not comfortable carrying out a Brazilian wax on a person with male genitalia, nor did she have the training for it. Jay Cameron, Da Silva’s lawyer and litigation manager with the Alberta-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, told the hearing that a ruling against his client would be tantamount to ordering “intimate services” against someone’s will.

The complaint heard Wednesday is one of more than a dozen filed by Yaniv, who describes herself as a digital marketing expert and LGBTQ activist. All allege she was the subject of discrimination by salons. A few complaints have been settled without hearing or withdrawn.

Yaniv also made headlines recently for engaging in a social media spat with free-speech advocate Lindsay Shepherd, in which they both made disparaging remarks about each other. Twitter subsequently banned Shepherd from the platform, but not Yaniv.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canad...to-transgender-womans-brazilian-wax-complaint

 

[My_King]

A few complaints have been settled without hearing or withdrawn. Nuff said

 

[Vrotappel]

So twitter banned the free speech. Typical.

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

This is the bloke who got me banned from Twitter by mentioning his sex.
Jonathan Yaniv. Even uses a male name.
Have you seen him?

 

[HelterSkelter]

What if he did the wax, and plucked the chap right off along with the hair? Could he then have had a claim against the client based on unjustified enrichment, because then he would have spared the client the costs of having the chap removed later when going for the sex change surgery?

 

[HelterSkelter]

 

[Temujin]

neo-Nazi

For not wanting to touch a mans junk... obviously, the third reich was founded on that basis, fourth reich is alive and well, no doubt about it

 

[saor]

However, business owner Marcia Da Silva said she was not comfortable carrying out a Brazilian wax on a person with male genitalia, nor did she have the training for it.

That's all there is too it.
Which completely nullfies the previous question posed:

But a substantive question remained at the core of the raucous daylong hearing: should a business be allowed to deny service on the basis of gender identity?

 

[Vrotappel]

Nobody can interfere with the principle that you can do business with whom you want to do business.

If I don't like your face I should have the right to show you the door.

 

[konfab]

Watch Lindsay Shepherd's videos on Yaniv.

That creep thinks it is normal conduct to go into a woman's bathroom and ask girls about their periods and tampons.

 

[R13...]

This guy is weird. if he still has his d why is there a screen cap of him asking about borrowing pads off 12 year old girls. And one asking about whether you see tits and vees in women's gym change rooms. Sounds creepy if anything.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Are we still on trannies? I thought binaries were the new flavour of the month...

 

[AstroTurf]

What I find ironic is that this "woman" wants to get rid of her own peis at some stage yet wants others to touch it.

 

[McSack]

If I were the business owner I would just give in and agree to do the wax. Just imagine how well a procedure involving hot wax, a man's junk and "insufficient training" is going to go ...

 

[konfab]

No slippery slope here.

2016: Canada makes gender expression a protected class.
2019: Wax my balls bigot.

It is an interesting case, if the state forces a woman to touch a man's genitals, wouldn't that be sexual assault?

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

Watch Lindsay Shepherd's videos on Yaniv.

That creep thinks it is normal conduct to go into a woman's bathroom and ask girls about their periods and tampons.

Further: asks friends if it's OK to offer to help (young) girl to insert tampon. This is documented.

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

No slippery slope here.

2016: Canada makes gender expression a protected class.
2019: Wax my balls bigot.

It is an interesting case, if the state forces a woman to touch a man's genitals, wouldn't that be sexual assault?

In the Cult, you have to repeat Transwomen are women 15 times a day. As if that makes it true. Bonus points if posted in all-caps on Twitter by a formerly reputable company or charity.

 

[Aghori]

In the Cult, you have to repeat Transwomen are women 15 times a day. As if that makes it true. Bonus points if posted in all-caps on Twitter by a formerly reputable company or charity.

No such thing as trans-women or trans-men.

/puts on phlegmsuit

 

[Emjay]

This is the bloke who got me banned from Twitter by mentioning his sex.
Jonathan Yaniv. Even uses a male name.
Have you seen him?

The same bloke who talks about little girls using tampons.

Lindsay Shepard has been perma banned from Twitter now too due to this person.

Edit.

Sorry, I see Konfab has already posted about it.

 

[konfab]

In the Cult, you have to repeat Transwomen are women 15 times a day. As if that makes it true. Bonus points if posted in all-caps on Twitter by a formerly reputable company or charity.