BREAKING: Jessica Yaniv loses cases against women who wouldn’t “wax her balls” 

I can’t imagine there is a single person in Canada—apart from the complainant’s mother—who didn’t feel a great wash of relief when transwoman Jessica “Jonathan” Yaniv lost the case brought to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against the waxologists who refused to wax Yaniv’s balls. 

Even the most fervent trans activist knows in his or her heart that, given Yaniv’s public truculence, combined with a weird and disturbing history of expressed fantasies around menstruation and adolescent girls, this individual does not project an image that is helpful to the transgender brand. 

The sordid chronicle was covered by this publication in-depth, but it was hardly mentioned by our national broadcaster, the CBC, even though the preposterousness of all its elements had made it an international phenomenon. The only explanation is ideology, and the CBC is certainly not alone in its journalistic fail. 

On Oct 23, Kara Dansky—a self-described left-winger and lifetime Democrat—representing the feminist organization Women’s Liberation Front, spoke to Fox News host Tucker Carlson about her organization’s objection to transwomen in sport. She cited transwoman Rachel McKinnon’s triumph in the Manchester, UK cycling championships, where McKinnon set a new world record for women, as a distressing example of the unlevel playing field trans entitlement has brought to sport. 

Of course, McKinnon did not really set a new record for women, as she is a biological male, with all the attendant advantages that confers in athletics. I was very interested in what Dansky had to say. But I would not have known about her if I did not watch Fox News. Like other radical feminists such as Meghan Murphy, who has suffered and continues to suffer greatly for her common-sense views, Dansky and her organization don’t get the time of day from the mainstream media, apart from being criticized for transphobia. 

Dansky thanked Carlson several times for having her on his show, stating that her organization’s views are routinely rebuffed by outlets such as NPR and the Washington Post. “No one will hear us … no one will publish us,” she said. Carlson expressed his complete bewilderment that even feminists of the left are cold-shouldered by media that are normally friendly to all things feminist.

Sometimes there really is a conspiracy. The left-leaning media has decided that in the battle for rankings on the intersectionality ladder, trans oppression trumps women oppression. Even when the CBC does report on trans stories, like the Toronto Public Library’s refusal to bow to pressure to cancel Meghan Murphy’s appearance Oct 29, the reportage is extremely skewed, as CBC host Carol Off’s interview with TPL librarian Vickery Bowles demonstrates in spades. 

Don’t look for rationality or coherence in left-wing shunning of feminists who actually defend the natural rights of women over the alleged rights of men who want to be women. Any movement that is comfortable in defining a woman as a person with a vagina or a penis according to their subjective feeling—and fully on board for all the social and cultural and legal rights that follow from that definition, however harmful they are to women—is not receptive to rational debate on the subject. As the great satirist Jonathan Swift said, you cannot reason someone out of something he or she was not reasoned into in the first place.

The betrayal of women by the LGBT community, as well as by politicians, legislators, social service institutions, mental-health professionals, educational establishment, athletic associations and media is surely one of the great mysteries of our time, and will doubtless be remembered by historians as a shaming indictment of gender ideology run amok. Meanwhile, victims of the craziness are mown down with Leninesque satisfaction in the name of “equality” and “rights.”

Which is why the HRT decision against Yaniv is a beacon of hope in a dark place. HRTs are generally regarded as bastions of political correctness. If even a left-leaning HRT can so decisively rule against Yaniv, and can so plainly see the frivolousness of the complaint, and can come down so squarely on the side of a truth that is screamingly obvious to anyone with common sense—that no woman should ever be forced to handle male genitals against her will—then a useful precedent has been set. 

Naturally, not all trans claims will be so black and white as the Yaniv case, and one could question why it should have been accepted for a hearing at all on those grounds, but we in the business of promoting reason must take what crumbs we can find. The important takeaway here is that the HRT recognized that trans entitlements have “reasonable limits,” according to the Charter, and that those limits are set by biology, not feelings. That is a victory for reason.

Today, the BC Human Rights Tribunal released their bombshell ruling in favour of all of the defendants Jessica “Jonathan” Yaniv had brought suits against for declining to provide services to her male genitals. In three of the cases, Yaniv was ordered to pay $2,000 in damages each to Sandeep Banipal, Marcia DaSilva, and Sukhdip Hehar for “improper conduct.”

The details of the ruling, released in a 60-page document, includes stunning detail of the Tribunal’s decision, with Yaniv being described as “engaging in extortionate behaviour,” and “being untruthful” with details, as well as “offering evidence calculated to mislead the Tribunal.” 

Most shockingly, the Tribunal recognized the reality that the majority of defendants in the case were racialized women, and documented a condemnation of Yaniv as being on a mission to “punish” certain racial groups for not “assimilating into Canadian culture.” According to the ruling documents, Yaniv allegedly attempted to explain away the volume of suits against racialized women as an unavoidable consequence of “these are the only people” who provide these aesthetic services. 

The Tribunal didn’t buy it.

Speaking with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom’s Jay Cameron, one of the key lawyers who worked on behalf of the women pro bono, the excitement over the ruling rang through his voice. 

“One of the clients I spoke with was crying. It was a very heavy weight off her shoulders—the stress, the loss of income. She was exceedingly relieved.”

Commending the Tribunal for their comprehensive ruling, Cameron discussed the details of the document released by the BCHRT. 

“It became evident there was a [racial] pattern with the complaints once there was more information about them.” Cameron says, noting that the pattern wasn’t immediately clear due to the publication ban, which obscured the details from case to case. But once the individual respondents were named, all became clear. Cameron also stated that the comments made by Yaniv at the tribunal proceedings itself revealed a highly charged racial sentiment. 

“Yaniv’s perception of why there was a refusal to provide a service—whether because of culture, religion, or failure to conform to Canadian social norms as Yaniv sees them.” Cameron says, “That became something obvious that we had to advance on behalf of the defendants—that there was an improper motivation for the complaints.”

The Tribunal ruling revealed that Yaniv had also used fake Facebook profiles and profile images to solicit services from the women in an attempt to present as either a biological female, or significantly more feminine and far along transition than Yaniv in fact was.

On this, Cameron says “Yaniv realized when using their ordinary physical presentation on Facebook, that the women were saying look, we don’t provide this service to men because we don’t service male genitalia,” continuing, “So to work around that, Yaniv thought to work around that I will present as something stereotypically female and then spring it on them later.”

Cameron adds that the Tribunal found it was improper and calculated to obtain sufficient evidence against a service provider to ground a human rights complaint.

While Cameron said he could not comment on whether or not he foresees Yaniv attempting to ground a complaint against him in the wake of his latest victory, he offered that the Justice Centre was a public constitutional firm that did pro bono work on public interest cases.

“The friction between self-identification and service providers, that’s of public interest. The theatrical aspects of some of the complainant’s behaviour, that’s of public interest. The Justice Centre exists by virtue of the fact that people make donations.”

While the Tribunal cases for the estheticians may have come to a close, Yaniv has already launched two additional suits… One in the BCHRT against anti-LGBT Christian activist Bill Whatcott for allegedly misgendering Yaniv, and one in the BC Civil Courts against a Vancouver-area physiotherapist after the table Yaniv had been lying on allegedly broke.

In both cases, Yaniv is seeking the maximum allowable claim of $35,000. 

European publication PinkNews touts itself as being the “brand for the global LGBT+ community and the next generation,” but lately it’s mission seems to include the defence of accused child predator Jessica Yaniv and the smearing of a transgender woman who dared to speak out against the accused pedophile.

When Canadian “trans activist” Jessica Yaniv forced into existence an international controversy by trying to weaponize Canadian law to force female estheticians to wax Yaniv’s male genitalia, multiple allegations of Yaniv’s past inappropriate sexual behaviour with young girls began to surface. The Post Millennial published multiple exclusive interviews with Yaniv’s various accusers including an account from a young woman who claimed that Yaniv tried to share child porn with her when she was only 14, and an interview with a young woman who provided screenshots of several disturbing Facebook messenger conversations with Yaniv, including one in which Yaniv asked the 15-year-old for a picture of her used tampon.

When these allegations came to light, YouTuber Blaire White was among the first to bring attention to the situation. Being a trans woman herself, White expressed both concern for Yaniv’s alleged victims and potential future victims, but also for the transgender community. White feared that Yaniv’s attempt to characterize her predatory behaviour as part of her transgender identity would be detrimental to the transgender community.

White’s concerns were not at all off-base. From the beginning of the Yaniv saga, PinkNews was there to tell the story of Jessica Yaniv: misunderstood trans activist.

In August, shortly after publishing a piece defending Yaniv’s crusade to force women to wax her male parts, PinkNews felt the need to update the same article when screenshots of racist messages surfaced sent by Yaniv about the very women she hoped to force out of business for refusing to touch her genitals.

The publication has yet to make any such updated or acknowledgement regarding the expansive allegations against Yaniv of vile sexual misconduct and inappropriate sexual contact with teenage girls. It does however, continue to this day try to frame Yaniv’s biggest critics as “bigots.”

After a cringe-worthy appearance and attempt to “debate” White on her Youtube channel led to Yaniv’s house being raided by police in search of an illegal taser that Yaniv flashed on camera, Yaniv admitted to doxxing White by releasing her address online. Yaniv later recanted the admission.

Weeks, later White tweeted the following regarding Yaniv:

Trans: I’m trans

Society: k

Trans:  Here are my pronouns

Society: k

Trans people: WAX MY BALLS & GIVE HORMONES TO KIDS OR YOUR’E A BIGOT

Society: Ok that’s a little too fa-

Trans: FUCK YOU FASCIST

Society: Okay fuck it then I give up

Trans: Omg why does everyone hate me

Many claiming to defend the trans community took issue with White’s tweet, including PinkNews, who ran a story focused entirely on the tweet, which it called“bigoted” and an “anti-trans tirade.” The article briefly mentioned the critical component of White herself being a transgender woman, but did not acknowledge its own contradiction of framing her as “anti-trans.” 

The piece also made several petty personal jabs at White, like qualifying the description of her as a “political and social commentator” with the phrase “self-described.” Whether or not White is a political and social commentator is not up for debate. It is how she makes her living, but apparently, at PinkNews, the only real commentators are the ones whose comments they approve of

“From #HowHardDidPubertyHitYou glo-ups to trans-positive spins on the ‘Is This a Pigeon?’ meme, trans Twitter users know how to use the internet to become the master at clapbacks,” read the article. “No wonder with what many trans folk are forced to contend with on an almost daily basis online, like one tweet by YouTuber Blaire White,” it continued. Which is a sentence this reporter personally had to read five times before understanding, because apparently they use punctuation sparingly at PinkNews.

White responded in a tweet to PinkNews calling the publication “disgusting and unhinged.” 

“You paint me as bigoted & anti-trans meanwhile you’ve DEFENDED Jessica Yaniv. You’ve DEFENDED pedophilia. Fucking dumpster juice publication,” wrote White.

PinkNews claims to be the authority on news for the LGBT community, but its content as of late only serves to push the perception of the community in the wrong direction. Aside from bashing a transgender public figure and defending accused child predator Yaniv, the publication has been putting out plenty of other questionable content this year. 

Like this video, which argues that people don’t even have to identify as women to be lesbians.

Or this article titled “Jussie Smollett might have lied, but violence against queer people of colour is real.”

In a statement to The Post Millennial, White said emphatically “Pink News is hot garbage. Their defence of Jessica Yaniv is not only disturbing but completely out of step with the overwhelming majority of the LGBT community who do not appreciate pedophilia.”

The Post Millennial has been following the Jessica Yaniv story closely for weeks now. And we make no apologies for our repeated coverage. It is a story of a single, vexatious human rights litigant attempt to ruin the lives of more than a dozen Vancouver area estheticians—most of them women, and many of them poor immigrants working out of their own homes—by forcing them to (literally) handle her penis and testicles under the guise of trans rights.

It is also a story about policy and law because Yaniv waged her whole shakedown campaign only because Canada has rushed into a policy of unfettered gender self-identification, which allows any person reading this to demand treatment as man or woman by, in effect, snapping their fingers and declaring them so. While the vast majority of trans people in Canada apply this power of self-identification in good faith, a few do not. 

Finally, it is a story—or metastory—of the rather shocking spectacle of almost the entire Canadian media ignoring the first two stories, out of a (rightful) fear that reporting it will force editors, reporters and readers alike to grapple with the implications of our current policy. And this is a discussion that, being politically incorrect, they would prefer not to have.

Last night, Jesse Brown tweeted a question as a promotional teaser for his Canadaland podcast: “The Intellectual Dark Web has a trans fetish. Why are they so obsessed?” The tweet pointed to his most recent podcast with co-host Mary Rogan which discusses the sad saga of Jessica Yaniv. 

Brown, throughout the episode, seemed to go out of his way to pretend as though the Jessica Yaniv story was non-news. A sham. A complete fiction picked up by right-wing outlets only to propagate their narrative. Brown continues to put forward the idea that Jessica Yaniv is a figment of the right wing’s collectively bigoted unconscious.

The truth is far less spectacular—Jessica Yaniv is real. The implications of Yaniv’s actions have been laid bare for all to see on multiple occasions. Further, that Yaniv’s self-declared identity directly influences the way in which the mainstream media can and does cover Yaniv’s historical racism, and alleged child sex predation. 

Despite being reported throughout the world, there is barely a trace of any of these developments in Canadaland’s coverage of the Yaniv story. In fact, in Canadaland’s print story about the Yaniv saga, a piece called “We Need To Talk About Jessica Yaniv,” the only hint of the women she has harassed and taken to tribunal is a nine-word sentence: “Specifically, she wanted a beautician to wax her balls.” 

Canadaland reduces over a dozen mostly-immigrant women down to one for the sake of Canadaland’s progressive narrative. Perhaps trying to force one woman to handle and wax male genitals is less nefarious than demanding more than a dozen to do so. Interestingly, the word “women” does not appear once in the entire column. 

Canadaland’s approach to Yaniv’s confirm the most toxic and destructive elements of intersectionality. It appears that their hands are tied when it comes to commenting fairly and appropriately on this very disturbing story because of the intersectional points that Yaniv has accumulated. A few years ago, before trans became the force of culture that it is today, the minority women would have had the intersectional upper hand. But now, because trans individuals are considered more of an oppressed minority, it is Yaniv who can play the intersectional fiddle. 

When the Canadian media has spoken about Yaniv, it often has been only so it can ask: Why is anyone talking about Yaniv? The presumption is that the act of even mentioning Yaniv’s name in a journalistic context can be motivated only by transphobia. Given the number of women whom JY sought to victimize—never mind the accusations of pedophilia, stalking, doxxing and racism—it is an absurd accusation. But it is illuminating because it shows the manner by which the media will circle the wagons against not only inconvenient opinions, but inconvenient facts when it comes to this one issue. 

Despite having a history of racism and xenophobia, going so far as to even call for the women of colour she is litigating against to be deported, Yaniv still receives ample protection from Canada’s woke left.

And as though being a virulent racist were not enough, Yaniv has been documented grooming and sexually communicating with girls as young as 14. Even Morgane Oger, a trans activist who is no fan of The Post Millennial, has made it clear that “the trans umbrella does not provide protection for predators.” Why can’t Brown see what’s right in front of his nose? Oger had previously supported Yaniv’s activism. She has since woken up to the truth about Yaniv and disavowed her.

In response to Brown’s tweet, Quillette editor Jonathan Kay tweeted the following: “Hi Jesse. It’s [because] a government-enforced policy of no-questions-asked gender self-identification has led directly to the demand (now before a BC tribunal) that a group of women handle a penis and testicles. To Canadaland bros who favour mandatory penis handling, I’m sure it’s no big deal.”

When an individual’s assertion of their rights actively compel another individual to do a thing to which their rights enable them to be opposed, there is a problem with the law. One person’s rights do not override another’s, and that is a key problem both with the Yaniv case and the issue that started it all, pronouns. 

That a person can assert that another person must intimately touch them, and that the law can abused to try to compel that touch, brings us to the heart of why people feel so strongly about pronouns. It’s about compelled speech. It’s not acceptable to legally force people to say things. A system that enforces compelled speech leads to people abusing the system in very dangerous and harmful ways. For Yaniv, compelled speech provided a direct path forward to continue her abuse of immigrant women estheticians. It also has provided a shield from being held accountable for alleged predation of young girls in her past.

Compelled speech is one of the primary ways identity politics manifests itself in the real world. Once it becomes law, then very bad, Orwellian things start to happen. Dr. Jordan Peterson rose to prominence specifically because he warned Canadians (and those around the world) that if you allow the government to dictate what you can and cannot say, then this power will be abused to harm the average citizen. 

We are witnessing Dr. Peterson’s warning come to reality in the very dangerous case of Jessica Yaniv. 

I personally have no problem calling Yaniv by the pronouns she wants, as in the statement: “I believe Jessica Yaniv abused a number of underage girls. I hope that she spends a lot of time in prison.” But ask yourself this: which prison does Yaniv go to? Considering her recent history of harassing women and her alleged history of abusing girls, where will she get locked up? Men’s or Women’s? As you contemplate the appropriate answer to that question, you begin to realize precisely why compelled speech is so insidious. 

So, yes. I’m happy to call Yaniv by whichever pronoun she wants. But some others aren’t. And I’m okay with that too. What I completely reject is the government forcing me or anyone else to comply with someone’s given preference.

Freedom of expression is a basic human right that is being denied to Canadians. Feminists and people with deeply held cultural and religious convictions also have the right to have their voices heard. The problem with compelling speech or action is that it prioritizes the rights of some groups over other groups, when the reality is that the upholding of rights must be on the individual level. If Jessica Yaniv has positively contributed in any way to Canadian society, it’s by confirming that this is true. Perhaps, once Yaniv is safely locked up, we should thank her.