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In a media release, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms says it has been retained to defend another beauty salon that has had a complaint launched against it by Jessica Yaniv, the transgender activist who previously sued B.C. salons because they refused to wax her.

Yaniv, a transgender woman, previously took action against a number of B.C. salons that refused to wax her scrotum during bikini waxes that she had requested, but in a ruling earlier this year on three such complaints, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal dismissed her argument. The tribunal, in October, said she launched the complaints for financial gain, and that she was nursing a particular grievance against South Asian people.

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“I am satisfied that the pattern is deliberate and motivated by (the complainant’s) animus towards certain, non-white, immigrants to Canada and, in particular, members of South Asian and Asian communities,” the adjudicator wrote.