After she was denied medical care for a body part she didn’t even have, a transgender woman claimed she was discriminated against by a gynaecologist.
The matter grew serious as litigation was initiated and now has the world divided in opinion.
Jessica Yaniv – now known as Jessica Simpson – is a Canadian transgender activist who sparked outrage in 2018 when she started filing a string of human rights complaints against beauticians who refused to manicure her man parts.
Simpson wanted a Brazilian, a treatment that removes all or part of the hair from a woman’s pubic region. The same technique involving a penis or scrotum is referred to as a “brozilian” or “manzilian” and estheticians are specifically trained for each.
Simpson, 37, still has her male genitalia but it didn’t stop her from accusing five independent beauty workers for refusing to give her a wax, demanding up to $15,000 in damages from each of them.
“None of these providers had any issue with anything until I mentioned I was transgender,” the Langley, British Columbia resident told the court, the Telegraph reports. Continue reading…
