Photo of JY in a public bathroom, described by JY on Twitter as a "selfie." Yaniv has admitted to creeping young girls in female bathroom facilities (though he doesn't call it that)
The Canadian human-rights litigant formerly known as Jonathan Yaniv — a trans woman who now goes by the name Jessica, but whom we will refer to simply as "JY" — is a unique figure among those who follow the debate over transgender rights. In 2018, this
self-described "global internet personality" and "social justice warrior"
contacted numerous Vancouver-area aestheticians seeking Brazilian-wax services — a process Wikipedia describes as "the removal of all pubic hair from the [female] pelvic region, vulva, labia, perineum and anus, while sometimes leaving a thin strip of hair on the mons pubis." As
reported by Joseph Brean in Canada's
National Post, JY seems to have sometimes used the name "Jonathan" when first making contact (an act of self-"
deadnaming," as it were), revealing only later in the conversations that the "Brazilian" in question would be performed on a client who is legally a woman, albeit a woman who has a penis and testicles. Predictably, some of the aestheticians indicated that they either didn't have the expertise to perform their trade on such a client, or resisted the idea of having a male-bodied individual in their work area (which may also be their home, with children on premises) — at which point JY responded with human-rights complaints.
Comment: RT adds that the incident began at 3:17 pm, and the Honda was pulled over simply because the driver had failed to signal a left turn. More tweets from eyewitnesses:
During the chase, a local CBS affiliate in Odessa was forced to evacuate during broadcast: