Yaniv is a transgender woman who hasn’t had surgery. She quite deliberately tried to make her appointments with women of colour, many of them modest, hijab-wearers, who had set themselves up in small business while choosing not to work outside the home. Yaniv sought an order that would have forced them to address her hairy genitalia, in their spare bedrooms, against their will. It sounds like performance art. I keep thinking it must be satire. Yaniv insists that she is serious.
She lost the battle on a technicality. The tribunal ruled that many wax artists simply weren’t trained to deal with a cock and balls and, therefore, Yaniv had to find a suitably qualified professional. She is not daunted, having since launched a human rights campaign against gynaecologists for refusing to accept her as a patient. “Are they allowed to do that, legally?” she asked, on Twitter.
Comedian Ricky Gervais took Yaniv on, saying: “It’s disgusting that a qualified gynaecologist can refuse to check a lady’s c..k for ovarian cancer. What if her bollocks are pregnant? She could lose the baby. I’m outraged.”
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@rickygervais
I was going to dress up as something weird and creepy for my Halloween party, but I’m bucking the trend this year and I’m going as brave female activist Jessica Yaniv. This also means I don’t have to wax my big old hairy balls.
https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1189610636344549377He can mock her. No one else dares. This is the debate we are now in. What is a woman? Who is a feminist?
In Britain this year, Maya Forstater lost her job as a visiting fellow at the Centre for Global Development for tweeting: “It is unfair and unsafe for trans women to compete in women’s sport.”
You may or may not agree, but woe betide those who are sceptical of the new gender ideology that now infects the movement. Just repeating: she lost her job.
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JK Rowling — a writer, mother and philanthropist — stepped up to support Forstater, saying: “Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?”
@jk_rowling
Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill
JK has now been “cancelled” — meaning her views on human rights and feminism and women and work will not be taken seriously by those who think they have the floor. She’s big enough to handle it, and she has her supporters.
“If we’re cancelling JK Rowling for saying biological sex is real, then WTF even is feminism?” one woman asked on Twitter.
And that’s quite right: we refuse now to acknowledge sex as a biological reality, we cancel same-sex attraction, and there goes lesbianism and all its grand literature, and philosophies.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/why-do-so-many-women-feel-so-horrible-...