The progressive LGBT movement has moved on from important issues such as marriage equality to the much more frivolous realm of wedding cakes, floral arrangements, and now … genital waxing? At least, that’s the new frontier where the recently passed Equality Act could take us.
A new viral story reveals how this would happen. A Canadian transgender woman who still retains male genitalia is taking a woman to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal for declining to wax her penis area. The transgender woman, Jessica Yaniv, charges the waxer with discrimination on the basis of “gender identity,” and compares the refusal of this service to neo-Nazism.
Of course, this is just one outlandish incident abroad. Yet, this type of insanity could come to America if the landmark LGBT rights legislation the Equality Act ever becomes law.
The Equality Act has noble intentions, for sure. It aims to prevent gay and transgender people from being unfairly fired from their jobs due to their sexuality, or being discriminated against in housing due to what should be irrelevant factors. But the law’s language is so sweeping and broad that not only would it trample religious freedom, but it also sets up nightmare scenarios like the “wax my balls, bigot” case to happen here in the United States.
The language of the Equality Act makes this clear:
It defines a public accommodation to include:
And an “establishment” would include even individuals such as the waxer in the Canadian case who run small businesses from their home. The Equality Act defines an establishment to include “an individual whose operations affect commerce and who is a provider of a good, service, or program.”
This language would appear to include salons or women working from home that provide waxing services. So, under the Equality Act, were a woman operating a waxing service to decline to service a transgender woman (who may retain full male genitalia), wouldn’t they be discriminating along the basis of gender identity? According to liberal Democrats’ own reasoning, serving biological women but not transgender women is an act of discrimination.
I spoke with Emilie Kao, an attorney with the Heritage Foundation, who confirmed that this could indeed occur under the Equality Act:
Thus, more than 200 House Democrats and eight Republicans voted for a law that would force women against their will to wax male genitalia. In any other instance, forcing a woman to touch a male genitals is sexual assault — when it’s done in the name of the Equality Act, are we supposed to believe that it’s somehow social justice instead?
This crazy example is just another reminder that the Equality Act goes too far, and needs to be scrapped. But there is an alternative approach.
As it stands now, passing the Equality Act would put the U.S. on the path toward Canada’s woke dystopian nightmare.
