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Complaints brought forward by trans woman Jessica Yaniv have been deferred for six months by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal because she has not paid costs from previous unsuccessful complaints against three beauty salons.

According to theJustice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, Yaniv has not paid $6,000 in costs to beauty salons she accused of discrimination for refusing to wax her genitalia. Yaniv filed the complaints in 2018 and the tribunal dismissed them in 2019.

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In October, the Human Rights Tribunal dismissed Yaniv’s case, ruling her persistent complaints that female salon workers refused to wax her scrotum were part of a campaign to both enrich herself and punish South Asian people, whom she views as hostile to the rights of transgender people.

In effect, the tribunal found the respondents did not offer scrotum waxing to anyone, so they did not deny Yaniv a service in the first place. It also preferred the respondents’ evidence wherever it conflicted with Yaniv’s, which was “disingenuous and self-serving.”