By Madeleine Kearns
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Imagine this. It’s 1990. A feminist novelist is pitching
her latest book to a publisher. Set in a dystopian future in which a tyrannical
ideology has gripped Western politics, it features female estheticians who have
been dragged before a national kangaroo court for refusing to wax a man’s
genitals. The publisher worries that the story, about an outrageous affront on
women’s rights, isn’t plausible. She suggests something more realistic — how
about fascistic men who force women into reproductive slavery instead?
Well, it’s 2019. The Handmaid’s Tale is still
fiction. While Wax My Balls, B**** is a real-life horror show.
This week, British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal
(CHRC) — a self-described “quasi-judicial body created by the B.C. Human
Rights Code” — held hearings on whether or not female beauticians should be
forced to handle male genitalia. The complainant, known until Wednesday under
the alias “J. Y.” owing to a court gag order, is Jonathan/Jessica Yaniv, a
self-identified transgender woman.
Yaniv has filed 16 different complaints against
estheticians in the past year. Yaniv argues that, as a transgender woman, being
denied services on account of her gender identity was discriminatory. As “Jessica,”
Yaniv explained on Twitter:
This is not about waxing. This
about businesses and individuals using their religion and culture to refuse
service to protected groups because -they- don’t agree with it or the person
and use that to illegally discriminate contrary to the BC Human Rights Code and
the CHRC.
But who said this was about waxing? This about sex,
surely. Yaniv is male — a male who has not made the surgical commitment
necessary to pass as a female. On top of that, in the past year, Yaniv has presented
unambiguously as a male on a number of sites including Google, LinkedIn,
Pinterest, and YouTube. And on top of that, Yaniv is a male who is
sexually attracted to females.
For the women who declined to wax Yaniv’s private parts,
however, the matter was simpler still. Yaniv has male genitalia. Some preferred
not to touch these for religious reasons. Others, such as business owner Marcia
Da Silva, didn’t feel comfortable or qualified. In the hearing, Da Silva’s
lawyer, Jay Cameron, further explained that forcing his client to touch Yaniv’s
scrotum would effectively be coercing “intimate services.”
It gets worse. The Canadian journalist Meghan Murphy, who
was banned from Twitter for identifying Yaniv as a man, writes at Spectator
USA:
In some cases, Yaniv, who is male
and maintains male genitalia, used fake Facebook profiles, displaying photos of
women (in at least one case, he used the profile of a pregnant woman) to
request the service via Facebook Marketplace. When the aestheticians realized
he was male, they told him they only performed the service for women (indeed,
waxing male genitals is an entirely different procedure, which requires
particular training and wax). Yaniv went so far as to tell Sandeep Banipal,
proprietor of Blue Heaven Beauty Lounge, that he was on his period, and asked
if she could work around the string.
The damages to these women have been considerable,
including stress and depression; at least one woman was forced to close her
business. Another, a single mother who worked out of her home, paid Yaniv
$2,500 to withdraw the complaint so that she could escape the expense of
further litigation. Some of the women Yaniv targeted were immigrants. And as if
there weren’t enough reasons to be suspicious of Yaniv, some of his comments on
social media have seemed strikingly xenophobic. On Facebook, as “Jonathan,”
Yaniv posted:
We have a lot of immigrants here
who gawk, judge and aren’t the cleanest of people, they’re also verbally and
physically abusive, that’s one reason I joined a girl’s gym, cause I DON’T want
issues with these people . . . They lie about sh[**], they’ll do anything to
support their own kind and make things miserable for everyone else.
It gets worse still. Yaniv is also “seeking permission”
from a Canadian local council “to hold three ‘topless’ swims for people ages 12
and up, and parents would be barred from attending,”the Daily Caller
reports. This swim would be for children who identify as LGBTQ2S+ and would
include topless girls.
So there we have it. An obviously predatory male is
attempting to use the force of law to coerce females to touch his private parts
and — unbelievably — a Canadian human-rights tribunal is entertaining this
demand. Yaniv has so perfectly exposed the absurdity of gender policies that it
would scarcely be surprising if he turned out to be a troll.
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