{"id":27509,"date":"2019-07-26T22:02:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T02:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27509"},"modified":"2019-07-26T22:02:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T02:02:41","slug":"the-whole-ball-of-wax-acquires-a-new-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-whole-ball-of-wax-acquires-a-new-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whole Ball of Wax acquires a new meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anglican Church of Canada is devoted to championing the marginalised in our society. Before anyone hastily jumps to the conclusion that the ACoC is against murdering babies in the womb, let me reassure your that they are not that <\/em>prophetic. The ACoC prefers to campaign on behalf of LGBTQ (you can add any more characters, including special or numeric characters, that you like \u2013 it\u2019s a bit like choosing a new password) individuals. The \u201cT\u201d for Transgender, is an interesting one. What would our learned bishops who, in addition to the L,Q,G and Bs, support and affirm the Ts because they are too cowardly not to, make of this?<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"There\u2019s an important category in logic known as reductio ad absurdum, according to which you contradict an argument by showing that its general application will produce absurd results. It has been in my mind over the past fortnight or so, as I\u2019ve followed a human-rights tribunal in British Columbia, Canada, and watched it deal with complaints made by trans woman Jessica Yaniv (or \u201cJonathan Yaniv\u201d: The person apparently goes by both names) against three aestheticians. When it comes to the notion that \u201cgender identity\u201d\u2014the self-declared, subjective feeling of being a man or woman\u2014can reasonably be taken to trump biological sex in law and daily life, Yaniv presents us with a reductio ad absurdum on two legs.<\/p>\n

For those who have not been following the case (which, oddly, has been covered by the international media, but mostly ignored by Canada\u2019s own press), the details will sound unbelievable. Last year, Yaniv used social media to contact 16 female aestheticians in the Vancouver area, most working out of their own homes, who advertized Brazilian waxing\u2014the removal of some or all of a woman\u2019s pubic hair by applying and then yanking off strips of heated wax.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, Yaniv would use the name Jonathan and a clearly male profile pic. Only then, upon being told that Brazilian waxing is for women only, would Yaniv reply to the effect of \u201cI am trans.\u201d The women would then convey that they were unwilling or unqualified to wax male genitalia. At this point, Yaniv would put in a complaint to the human-rights tribunal, alleging discrimination on the basis of gender identity, a protected characteristic under British Columbia\u2019s human-rights code.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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