SJW's BLIND TO THEIR OWN FAULTS

An extraordinary column appeared on the website of Canadian Lawyer on Tuesday. Titled, “B.C. Brazilian waxing case a step backward for trans human rights cases, says lawyer,” the article presented an interview with self-described “transgender human rights activist” Adrienne Smith, who laments that the recent legal setback to scrotal-waxing enthusiast Jessica Yaniv (JY) is “going to put a chill on trans rights human rights litigation in British Columbia.” That’s a rather eyebrow-raising claim given that an exhaustive judgment written up by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal showed Yaniv to be a vexatious racist and grifter who’d deliberately targeted Vancouver-area immigrant women who didn’t have the means to fight back. Incredibly, Smith complains that, in the words of the interviewer, a good lawyer “would have prevented Yaniv” from expressing the racist animus behind the human-rights grifting campaign. Which is to say: This “human rights activist” regards JY’s racism as “unfortunate” — but mainly because it got in the way of a trans-positive judgment.