A female waxer who declines to handle male genitalia could face legal consequences. At least, this might soon be possible in the bastion of woke insanity otherwise known as Canada.

The insanity stems from a recent British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal hearing, in which Jessica Yaniv brought a complaint against Marcia Da Silva, a woman who ran a waxing service from her home. Complicating matters, Yaniv, despite identifying as a woman, sports the full package of male genitalia.

According to the Toronto Sun, Yaniv responded to an advertisement Da Silva posted on Facebook and sought out Da Silva’s waxing services. However, upon learning that Yaniv retained male genitalia, Da Silva said she was no longer comfortable performing the waxing, as she was only offering female waxing services.

“I have no problem with LGBT [people],” Da Silva said. In fact, she was willing to offer her waxing services for a transgender woman who had undergone reassignment surgery, just not one who still retained male sexual organs. To the average outsider, this seems like a perfectly reasonable response. To the woke identitarian Left, it’s an act of bigotry.

Yaniv charged that Da Silva was discriminating against her on the basis of her gender identity, and such discrimination is barred under Canadian law. During the hearing, Yaniv even compared Da Silva’s refusal to wax her penis to an act of neo-Nazism. Naturally, comedians and parody accounts had a field day.

It's a sad state of affairs when a lady can't have her hairy balls waxed. — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) July 20, 2019

But on another level, this is no laughing matter. While yes, the "wax my balls, bigot" case is just one isolated incident, it shows how the identitarian Left has rapidly advanced from pursuing equality, which involves the freedom from oppression, to seeking their version of justice, which includes the freedom to force your views — or yourself more literally — onto others.

And this vision of social justice poses a threat to free society.

Think about it: Yaniv could have gone to a waxing service that accepted both male and female customers (plenty exist), or even bought a do-it-yourself home kit. She didn’t — instead, she relentlessly pursued this case to try to browbeat her fellow citizen into submission.

While this example is particularly ludicrous, in principle it’s not much different from similar cases we’ve seen here in the U.S. Take the gay couple that took Christian baker Jack Phillips to the Supreme Court, for example. They could have gotten a wedding cake made almost anywhere. And the lesbian couple who sued a religious florist in a similar case? Surely there was no shortage of places to purchase flowers.

Increasingly, the progressive movement is pursuing a vision of “progress” that grants members of allegedly aggrieved classes, such as homosexuals and transgender people, not just the freedom from government discrimination they sought for so long, but the freedom to impose themselves on others. This goes beyond tolerance, which simply requires mutual respect for each other's individual rights and dignity, and into the realm of authoritarianism.

Still, it’s certainly true that most transgender people aren’t trying to force random women to wax their balls, and most of us gay people are content without chasing down Christians and forcing them to bend to our will. So it’s important that we view these cases not as warnings of a pending LGBT apocalypse, but rather as isolated incidents that pose troubling philosophical and moral questions.

Nonetheless, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives recently passed the so-called LGBT rights law the Equality Act . And this law would enshrine similarly broad protections for gender identity and sexual orientation into law, further restricting the ability of American business owners to invoke freedom of conscience. This bizarre case in Canada shows that a legal system that fails to protect freedom of conscience fails to protect justice at all.

With their passage of the Equality Act, do Democrats support forcing women to wax male genitalia against their will? The language of the bill they just passed suggests that, bizarrely, they do.