Posted on 07/18/2019 8:43:52 PM PDT by rickmichaels
VANCOUVER — 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 A few complaints have been settled without hearing or withdrawn.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.
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to keep the hearing from careening off course
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!
I’d give it the last Brazilian wax of its entire lifetime.
That I guarantee.
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Do these men actually think they are attractive?
ROTFL!
waiter, there’s a fly in the ointment?
Alphabet people. Not sure this is going to work.
They want to force others to touch their genitals or to change their soiled diapers. It’s a “thing”. Thanks internet.
Problem is, give in by giving bad service, and they can sue you for THAT and have stronger standing. AND if you give in to liberal bullies’ demands that you serve them, others will come in demanding the same service.
You must say NO to be able to stop it.
There’s a practical question they refuse to admit:
Does a woman have a right to refuse to wax a man’s organs? Or is forcing her to do this a violation of her civil rights / sexual harassment?
None of this addresses the “I’m trained to do women’s genitals and he has a man’s” because the liberal bullies will say fine, you have to learn how to wax the man’s balls so he feels like a woman and then do it every time we come in.
No woman should be forced to interact with male genitalia against their will. That’s rape (right, feminists?).
“Problem is, give in by giving bad service, and they can sue you for THAT and have stronger standing.“
It wanted waxed. Waxed it would get.
“others will come in demanding the same service.”
Not bloody likely.
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Transgender woman? Nonsense...
but I don't understand these things apparently.
So, let me get this straight, son. You just pissed off a woman who you want to pour boiling hot wax on your johnson and tear it off with gauze, taking whatever is there with it. Is this the path of wisdom?
Looks like someone found a way to make some easy money.
“It was not sex discrimination. If we catered to this customer’s demand for a full body wax, our supplies and most of our emergency reserves would have been depleted! It was only 8.30Am, we had other customers waiting for their own waxing.”
“Twitter subsequently banned Sheperd from the platform, but not Yaniv.”
Yes it is time to regulate/govern Big Brother Big tech.
It is about as ‘private business’ as the Politburo.
Did she want her balls waxed or what?
“ Nobody wants to touch you down there, so I brought my weed eater. Ready?”
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