VANCOUVER — A B.C. Human Rights Tribunal hearing devolved into repeated outbursts and name-calling this week as it considered a transgender’s complaint that a home-based salon discriminated against him by refusing to give him a Brazilian wax.

Brazilian waxes differ from regular bikini waxes because hair is removed in the front, back, and everything in between. Sometimes a “landing strip” is left in the front, but many clients opt for the “Hollywood Wax,” where everything is removed.

At one point, the complainant compared the business owner 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 careening off course, according to National Post.

Jessica Yaniv, born Jonathan, and still in full possession of a penis, showed up at the salon demanding to have his testicles waxed. The salon owner refused. He made such a stink that she ended up closing her business.

This extremely annoying Yaniv weirdo filed a human rights complaint against him, because as we know, Heinrich Himmler arrested salon owners who waxed Aryan privates, The American Conservative reported. Yaniv has filed a number of complaints against female spa owners who would not touch his penis and testicles to remove hair from them.

We’ve moved on from “Bake my cake!” to “Wax my balls!” — Chris McKeever (@TheRealMcKeever) July 20, 2019

Marcia Da Silva, who is an immigrant from Brazil operated the business out of her home where her small children also live. Da Silva claims she refused to perform the procedure on the claimant, Jessica Yaniv, due to safety concerns raised by her husband and alleged harassment on Yaniv’s part and not because of the claimant’s identity.

Yaniv, who was formerly known as Jonathan Yaniv, has taken fifteen other B.C. women to the tribunal for refusing to wax his male genitalia citing discrimination based on gender identity and is seeking financial compensation. Many of the woman are of East Asian ethnicity and have English as their second language.

During Wednesday’s tribunal proceedings Da Silva claims that the incident directly led to her shutting down her business and losing it as a source of income for her family.

“Some of my clients have been very significantly affected on a personal level. [Another client also] closed her business, she has been depressed, anxious, sleepless and that has gone on for a period of many many months,” said her representative and Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms lawyer, Jay Cameron.

“It is a very serious thing to launch a human rights complaint against a person. My clients are people. They have a right to make a living and this has interfered with their livelihood, but also you have the stigma of being associated with this hanging over you.”

Cameron told the tribunal judge that many of Yaniv’s claims specifically target women from ethnic and religious minorities and that the procedure to perform a wax on male genitals is different than those performed on a vulva.

According to Yaniv, estheticians should be obliged to provide a service like waxing to a female-identifying trans person and religious and cultural views should not interfere with the ability to access a service.

“You cannot choose who your clientele is going to be,” he said.

However, business owner Marcia Da Silva said she was not comfortable carrying out a Brazilian wax on a person with male genitalia, nor did she have the training for it.

Jay Cameron, Da Silva’s lawyer and litigation manager with the Alberta-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, told the hearing that a ruling against his client would be tantamount to ordering “intimate services” against someone’s will.

Trans activist Jessica Yaniv is a freqent flier at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. She wanted her male genitalia waxed. The owner said no.

Yaniv is no shrinking violet and managed to get free-speech advocate Lindsay Shepherd banned from Twitter after the pair engaged in a war of words. Yaniv was not banned.

The complainant wanted to keep the hearing under wraps but the tribunal ruled she was so obsequious on social media there was no point.

On Wednesday, Yaniv, who is representing himself, said he came upon a Facebook ad in spring 2018 offering a promotion for a Brazilian wax, which involves the removal of pubic hair around the groin.

Da Silva testified she had just started her home-based business after previously performing waxes on family and friends.

Yaniv was the first person to respond to her ad, she said.

They agreed over text message to an afternoon appointment.

But Yaniv testified that after identifying herself as transgender and sending Da Silva a selfie, Da Silva cancelled the session.

“I have no problem with LGBT,” Da Silva said, adding she was simply not comfortable waxing male genitals and didn’t know how.

Yaniv also bombarded her with messages to the point Da Silva said she became frightened.

“For my safety, I said, ‘No,’” she testified.

Da Silva told the tribunal she defined someone who is transgender as a person who has undergone sex-reassignment surgery.

She responded affirmatively when asked if she’d perform the waxing service on someone who had undergone such surgery.

Under cross-examination, Cameron put to Yaniv that Brazilian waxes were services performed only around female genitalia and that what Yaniv should have sought was a “brozilian” — waxes that involve male genitalia.

One proud lesbian. I'll never give up fighting for human rights equality. #LGBTQoftwitter pic.twitter.com/sKyjJ0Um39 — Jessica Yaniv (@trustednerd) June 16, 2019 Transgender claiming to be a lesbian.

That prompted Yaniv to tell the tribunal that he was intersex and had female body parts.

“It exists,” she said, declining to elaborate.

Cameron accused her of an outright “fabrication.”

“You’re attempting to mislead the tribunal,” he said.

Cameron called Yaniv’s credibility into question and earlier suggested Yaniv had used a fake Facebook profile of a pregnant woman when she initially sought out the waxing service, a claim Yaniv denied.

The tribunal heard Da Silva shut down her salon business after her encounter with Yaniv.

Earlier this month the JCCF also represented two other aestheticians who were the subject of similar complaints from Yaniv.