All shall have prizes
A distraction while we wait. Yaniv sues again!
A Canadian transgender woman is suing a beauty pageant company for refusing to allow her to compete in its contest, according to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom, which represents the business.
But it’s a beauty pageant. It’s selective by its nature. Personally I don’t think the damn things should exist at all, but they do exist, and nobody expects them to include Joe of the beer belly and jowls to be able to participate.
Jessica Yaniv, a transgender LQBTQ rights activist, filed a human rights complaint against Toronto’s Canada Galaxy Pageants alleging it is in violation of the Ontario Human Rights Code, the conservative legal policy organization announced Monday.
In May 2019, Yaniv, whose biological sex is male, applied to be a contestant in the pageant’s “28 Years and Older Division” but did not disclose she was transgender and had yet to complete gender reassignment surgery, the Justice Centre alleged.
Or that he’s a litigious asshole, I bet.
Yaniv was tentatively accepted but also reminded of the pageant’s policy allowing only women or men who have “fully transitioned.”
When Yaniv was “reminded” of the policy, she filed a complaint alleging the pageant company engaged in discrimination based on gender identity, gender expression and sex.
But it’s a beauty pageant. It engages in discrimination in all kinds of ways. That’s the point of it – choosing The Most Prettiest. Discrimination is the core value.
The Justice Centre accused the activist of being a serial filer of human rights complaints. In 2019, Yaniv filed a series of complaints against five Vancouver estheticians for their refusal to perform bikini waxes on her because of her genitals. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal later dismissed the charges and ruled Yaniv’s motive was to “target small businesses for personal financial gain,” not “prevent or remedy discrimination,” according to the Telegraph.
Now it’s time to target beauty contests for personal financial gain. Dude has a weird hobby.
The Beauty Pageant organisers, if they knew Yaniv’s form, should have let him in and eliminated him at first round for not meeting beauty standards.
Most contestants are asked about their interests, and they say children, or ice-skating or whatever. He could say, litigation. .
I wish there were a judge with a sense of humor who would dismiss this case for lack of standing.
KBPlayer, #1; Yaniv could certainly list children as one of his interests, but he’d be praying that he isn’t asked the context of his interest. I don’t think that ‘I want to help young girls having their first period to insert tampons’ would go down well.
If he is allowed to compete, and does not win (which is the likely outcome), he would probably sue because our standards of beauty are discriminatory. Yes, they are. They discriminate against nearly all women, and pretty much all men who claim they are women. Very few meet the standards of beauty set by a beauty pageant. If he loses, he will be being treated like a woman (or man) who is not beautiful, by the standards determined by the judges.
If he claims that beauty standards are a result of western societal preferences, I could fully agree with him. That would not make him any more legitimate as a candidate in a contest over women’s beauty.
Perhaps he should put up his picture on one of those websites for rating women’s beauty – hot or not, or something like that. Might be a lesson in humility for him, unless he was able to create some sort of bot that would continually rate him a ten to counteract all the flesh-and-blood male people rating him lower (probably much lower).
Acolyte #3 – definitely choose ice-skating or working out as a safer option.
iknklast#4 – I have only ever been to one beauty pageant, which was a casual affair in a seaside town. The crowd was less polite than it should be towards the plainer, fatter entrants. Yaniv could try his luck at some ad hoc rodeo competition, and see what reception he gets from the vocal lads attending.