Jessica Yaniv

Jessica Yaniv
Born1986 or 1987 (age 36–37)[1]
Other namesJessica Simpson (legal name)[2]
CitizenshipCanadian
EducationKwantlen Polytechnic University
OccupationIT business support & IT reviews

Jessica Simpson,[2] commonly known by her former legal name, Jessica Yaniv, is a Canadian transgender activist in British Columbia who is best known for filing at least 15 complaints of discrimination on the basis of gender identity against various beauty salons after they refused to wax her male genitalia.[2][3][4][5][6] The complaints were filed with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal in 2018 and 2019. It was the first major case of alleged transgender discrimination in retail in Canada. In 2019, the Tribunal rejected her complaints and ruled Yaniv had racist motives.[7] In following years, Yaniv has gone on to make additional complaints of discrimination, libel and privacy breach.

In 2019, she displayed a taser in a livestreamed YouTube video, resulting in her arrest. Yaniv was found guilty of a charge of possession of a prohibited weapon, and sentenced to a conditional discharge, along with receiving probation and a firearms prohibition.

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