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Transgender Activist Jessica Yaniv Files Human Rights Complaint Against Female-Only Beauty Pageant

Jon Brown
Transgender Activist Jessica Yaniv Files Human Rights Complaint Against Female-Only Beauty Pageant
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A Canadian transgender activist filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario after a female-only beauty pageant barred them from participating because the activist still has male genitalia.

Self-identified female Jessica Yaniv, formerly known as Jonathan Yaniv, is demanding $10,000 in damages from Canada Galaxy Pageants for alleged “injury to dignity and feelings,” according to a press release from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which is representing the pageant.

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