TORONTO, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — Canada’s notorious transgender activist Jonathan “Jessica” Yaniv has lost yet another legal battle, this time against a beauty pageant.
In a July 28 decision, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario dismissed a complaint by Jonathan Yaniv, now going by “Jessica Simpson,” against Canada Galaxy Pageants for asking him if he was a biological male before allowing him in a competition with young girls.
“Sometimes justice is served before parties set foot into a hearing,” constitutional lawyer Allison Pejovic of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) said in a press release.
“After five years of delays on the Tribunal’s end and then giving Jessica Simpson [sic] many chances to properly prepare for the hearing, the Tribunal did the right thing to dismiss Simpson’s complaint of discrimination based on gender identity and expression,” she continued.
In 2019, Yaniv applied to compete in the Canada Galaxy Pageant, a Toronto-based beauty pageant for women and girls, without disclosing that he was a biological male.
The pageant initially accepted his application but later updated its policy to allow only men who had undergone a “sex change” surgery to compete, due to safety and privacy concerns in backstage changing areas.
According to the JCCF, “contestants, including girls as young as six years old, change their clothing and undress in common areas. No males (including contestants’ fathers or male guardians) are permitted in those spaces to protect the privacy and comfort of contestants. Teens and older contestants were able to compete in a swimwear category.”
As a result, the pageant asked Yaniv if he had undergone the necessary procedures. However, instead of responding, Yaniv filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal, seeking $10,000 in damages for “injury to dignity and feelings” and to force the pageant to allow biological men to compete.
The pageant was ready to defend their decision and was expected to include evidence from six parents over safety concerns with young girls being forced to change in front of men.
“Throughout this process, Canada Galaxy Pageants and concerned parents and citizens pushed back against a demand they considered indecent and inappropriate, and stood up for safe spaces for women and girls,” Pejovic stated.
“While we wish that the Tribunal had dismissed the complaint as frivolous, the Tribunal’s decision still sends a strong message about the importance of procedural integrity,” she continued.
This is hardly the first time that Yaniv has lost a legal battle. Yaniv filed two new human rights complaints in October 2019 against beauticians for refusing to wax his legs. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal deferred these complaints because Yaniv had not yet paid the $6,000 in costs to the women whom he took before the tribunal.
In 2020 Yaniv filed a discrimination complaint against Christian activist Bill Whatcott. He sought $35,000 in damages after Whatcott publicly referred to him in sidewalk preaching and a flyer as a “biological male” and a “transvestite deviant” looking to “prey on vulnerable biological women.” According to Whatcott, the case was “deferred.” This was also because Yaniv had not paid the ordered damages to the beauticians.
Yaniv’s critics have accused him of an untoward interest in underage girls. In July 2018, he requested permission from the City of Langley for “LGBTQ2S+ organizations” to host a topless ‘All-Bodies Swim’ at its municipal pools “for people aged 12+.” Parents and “caretakers” were barred from admittance.
