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A B.C. Human Rights Tribunal hearing over Brazilian waxes devolved into chaos this week punctuated by a slew of bizarre accusations from a transgender woman.

Jessica Yaniv, the complainant, argued she was entitled to receive the advertised wax service and that if the tribunal ruled against her it could lead to a “dangerous” precedent.

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Yaniv’s claim emerged after she was denied a Brazilian wax of her male genitalia at a home salon in Vancouver.

At one point, Yaniv compared the business owner — a female immigrant of colour — 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 becoming even more chaotic.

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?