A hair removal services company in Canada is facing a human rights complaint after a Muslim employee refused to wax the legs of a transgender woman who was born male.
This is a case to be watched closely. The beautician has a case, but this case also takes place in the context of the fact that Muslim rights transcend Christian rights in Justin Trudeau’s Canada.
The trans woman customer filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, saying the Mad Wax in Windsor, Ontario, caused “immense harm” to her dignity….Carruthers, president and CEO of Mad Wax Windsor Camp Inc., responded to the complaint by emphasizing that they value their employees’ religious beliefs over fairness to their clientele.
This case has significant impact upon religious freedom and the principle of equality of rights for all. It should be remembered that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has been noted as having “totalitarian tendencies” by the former Ambassador of Religious Freedoms, Dr. Andrew Bennett. This stemmed from a “Liberal government’s change to the Canada Summer Jobs program that requires organizations seeking funding to tick a box that attests to their respect for sexual and reproductive rights, including abortion, and other human rights.” It is striking that this attack by the Trudeau government on the values of people of Christian faith primarily targets “summer camps to soup kitchens — that have nothing to do with abortion.” Yet meanwhile, an “Islamic group with ties to a terrorist organization will receive the Trudeau government’s Canada Summer Jobs Grant.”
Most troubling is that Trudeau bends over backwards to embrace Islamic supremacists, as the rights of Christians dwindle. Anyone can mock, ridicule and insult Christianity in Canada, but no one can utter a critical word about Islam. In fact, the Liberals are still trying to find ways to criminalize speech that is considered to be critical of Islam by “taking action” as a followup to the “anti-Islamophobia” motion M-103.
If this beautician had been a Christian, would Mad Wax have allowed her to deny anyone service? While the Muslim beautician (and Mad Wax) are being dragged before an Ontario Human Rights tribunal for her faith, the truly intolerant and virulent aspects of Islamic belief and attitudes toward the LGBTQ community are “tolerated.” Anti-LGBTQ views are being preached openly in Canada with no opposition from the LGBTQ community.
“Transgender Woman Sues Waxing Spa After Muslim Employee Declined Service for Religious Reasons”, by Michael Gryboski, Christian Post, May 17, 2018:
A transgender woman who was born male has filed a complaint against a Canadian beauty waxing spa after a female Muslim employee declined service over religious reasons.
The complaint was brought before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario against Mad Wax of Windsor in response to a female Muslim employee who was opposed to touching a biologically male body.
Carruthers, president and CEO of Mad Wax Windsor Camp Inc., released a statement last week, confirming he had received the complaint and that he respects the religious beliefs of his employees.
“All clients regardless of sex, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation are welcome,” stated Carruthers, as quoted by CTV News.
“However, we also welcome staff members and respect their religious beliefs and feelings of safety and dignity in regards to the right not to perform waxing services on males or male genitals.”
Ray Colautti, attorney for Carruthers, echoed the CEO’s comments about the need to respect the beliefs of the staff and that no one else was available to perform the waxing.
“[Mad Wax] respects its own staff and religious beliefs and feelings of safety and dignity in regards to the right in not performing waxing services that they don’t feel comfortable providing,” stated Colautti, as quoted by iheartradio.ca.
According to the complaint, the transgender individual, who has remained anonymous, contacted Mad Wax in March for an appointment…..
Linda says
Which special interest group will be the victor? Welcome to Canada in 2018.
mortimer says
Yes, Linda, simply change the name ‘Muslim’ to ‘fundamentalist Christian’ and ask yourself: WHO WILL BE THE VICTOR?
The Lib-Jihad Party of Canada with its mindless Islamo-pandering is gradually implementing Sharia law and RAMMING ISLAM DOWN PEOPLES’ THROATS in Canada.
Linda says
The Liberals are all about special interest groups and right now, Muslims are the most special in their books.
billybob says
Sorry but I just don’t see the problem here. Nobody should be forced to do a wax job on a man pretending to be a women. The fact he pretends to be a woman does not make him one. The fact that this involved a Muslim is a red herring. In fact, any woman should and would be revolted, Muslim or not. There may be places that will do a wax job on a man and he should go to one of these places. To expect a woman who doesn’t expect a male client to be forced to perform this intimate procedure on him is entirely unreasonable.
HugoHackenbush says
Agree. The salon can defend itself by simply changing their policy from “no men” to “no penises”. I.E. “we do not provide services to persons with penises” regardless of their “perceived gender”.
mortimer says
HH, it will depend on the judge.
HugoHackenbush says
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but in the meantime; oh! the schadenfreude! I love watching the victimhood Olympics!
Petey says
The Human Rights Commission doesn’t have Judges! They have Lefties and immigrants posing as Judges, They do not follow Canadian Law at all
Linda says
They’ll say that’s discriminating on the basis of sex then.
mortimer says
billybob, REMEMBER that fundamentalist Christians were SUED because they didn’t want to decorate a cake for a GAY WEDDING!
Would a Muslim baker have been SUED??
Rarely says
What’s good for the goose…
Lebel says
The problem is that a Muslim did it therefore it must be evil and therefore it’s jihad.
That’s it. The act is irrelevant, it’s who performed the act.
Was it a Muslim? then evil, jihad etc..
Linda says
He isn’t pretending. He thinks he is really a woman, (in a man’s body).
Rarely says
I’ve tried to get my head around this transgender thing and the nearest I can figure out is that I’m a lesbian trapped in a male body.
Linda says
It seems to me that the guy thinks he was born with the wrong body because he feels like he’s a woman.
Ray Jarman says
I may think that I am the world’s most sexiest man but it does not make it so. The left claims to believe in science and use it in an attempt to prove that man came from the apes and that God does not exist and DNA is a proven science which no one disputes and DNA definitely identifies the difference between a male and female. I never thought that I would pray for the left or LBGT to win a battle but I do pray that the muslim female wins this one and then watch the left squirm when Christians with similar issues are forced into court for our beliefs.
Linda says
They used to call someone who thought he or she was something he or she was not, mentally ill. They’ve taken away a lot of the “mentally ill” designations so as not to offend anyone because people have human rights now.
kathleen 7546 says
Did he say a transgender? Was it just obvious to the Muslim woman? Someone said he wanted a leg wax. Is it known if he wanted upper/iinner legs waxed near the crotch? Or ankles to crotch? How does she dress? Odd/suggestive/bizarre dress and make up can rattle or really scare any woman who has to touch the client for a prolongued time.
Linda says
I think all that doesn’t matter because Muslimas are not allowed to touch men they are not related to anyway, as far as Sharia law goes, so it’s just against her religion.
Carol the 1st says
This paragraph is interesting:
“…the professional hair removal company declined service, noting that the staffer who does male hair removal was on sick leave while the only other staffer who did body waxes was a Muslim woman who refused physical contact with any males she was not related to.”
Let’s assume most societiescould reasonably accept a policy where only a male would do intimate, cosmetic male (or shall we say “penis”) hair removal. The lawyers and politicians could perhaps instead busy themselves by quibbling over whether the injured party, and the company and its employee had all properly used the applicable, correct new gender pronoun in Trudope’s nitpicking new Canada? Maybe honest confusion abounds what with all the language experiments?
An interesting dimension to all this is that muslims apparently believe in having underarm and genital hair removed. The article suspiciously switches to the words “physical contact”. Does this imply that a muslima could not shave a man’s beard? Or is it slyly avoiding the “genital hair removal” term because actually this practice is fine and dandy when a muslim is a RELATIVE of the female? This leaves us to wonder if muslimas DO engage in intimate hair removal when (not just a husband) but ANY male RELATIVE is involved. This shows bias and could complicate the whole matter and (regrettably of course) shine the spotlight on just one more grotesque Islamic practice.
Linda says
There was a human rights case years ago in which a feminist or lesbian went to a male barber shop to have her hair cut. The barber shop was run by Muslims and they wouldn’t do the hair cut because they didn’t want to touch a woman they weren’t related to, so the complaint wound up in a human rights tribunal. I assume it works the same way for muslimas not wanting to touch men they aren’t related to.
Logic&Reason says
I wonder how long it’ll take the Left to figure out that Islam demands to be both the rule AND the exception to it.
vyx says
I hate to say it, but I think that the Left is totally OK with Islam ruling and having special “rights.”
Why?
I don’t know. I suspect that the Lefts hatred for everything Christian overrules any “issues” they might have in terms of being ruled by Islam.
Of course.. Islam brings pedophilia, wife beating and the nod to lie to anyone who is not the right form of Islam, so really there are benefits. And gays in the west tell me Muslims killing gays can’t happen here. Even though it already has.
Clare says
Telling a waxing technician that they don’t have to wax certain people or body parts is like telling a vet that they don’t have to tend to cats.
HugoHackenbush says
So the vet can’t simply have an equine or dog practice?
unoriginal username says
I am topping up my popcorn and wine stash for this epic showdown between two special interest groups.
In this corner, a tranny who has been allowed to deny reality for so long that he thinks how he feels about gender (“but I’m a woman, really I am:) suddenly makes it real.
And in this corner, a muslima who has been bred since birth to think she’s better than everyone else and has the right to be excused from doing her job due to membership in the death cult.
Who will win? It’s a toss up, but stay tuned for the mental gymnastics of the left in what promises to be fantastic entertainment!
Ray Sears says
+1
Ren Ostertag says
+1 unoriginal username says! +1 !!!!
Wakeup says
I am a man trapped in a mans body and fine with that. I think this is stupid from both points of view but on this ocassion I am with the tranny. I personnaly don’t give a toss about LGBT’s live and let live but they do get up the noses of the muslims and for that ya gottttta love them.
Tom says
The wisdom of Solomon is going to be needed to resolve this one without creating a huge dilemma for the Canadian government.
Grab the popcorn, sit back and enjoy the show, for it will be quite entertaining to watch.
Rarely says
The Ontario Human Rights Commission is a bit of a joke. I wouldn’t be surprised if this dispute is handled very quietly after all it is between two of their favourite groups..
Tom says
It’s the same in BC. The Human Rights Tribunal is a joke which has resulted in some very contentious decisions. Common sense doesn’t seem to be a part of their decision making process.
Rarely says
There doesn’t seem to be an appeal available to the real courts. More’s the shame.
ConanKong says
Muslim vs Transgender. I would love to see how the Left unties that knot. Pass the popcorn, this is going to be interesting.
Don McKellar says
Talk about the ultimate Left Fascist existential dilemma!
Carol the 1st says
All TOTALITARIANS appear to be cut from the same cloth:
“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which
covers the surface of society with a network of
complicated rules, through which the most original
minds and the most energetic characters cannot
penetrate. It does not tyrannize but it compresses,
enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each
nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of
timid and industrious animals, of which the
government is the shepherd.”
~ Alexis de Tocqueville ~
somehistory says
Can a dog “feel” like a cat? Can a bird “feel” like an elephant?
A human born as a male cannot “feel” like a woman. A human born as a female cannot “feel” like a man.
He doesn’t “feel” like a woman. It’s all a pretense. And he wants the big money that comes with having his ‘feelings” hurt.
No woman, of any religion or no religion, should have to wax a male’s body…any part of it…if she doesn’t wish to.
It used to be that a man dressing as a woman was considered mentally ill or a pervert. Whatever they were then, they are now. The only difference is, now they can get sympathy, aren’t thought to be mentally ill or perverted, and can get money when they go out and get their “feelings” hurt.
Linda says
I have heard people say that their cat is like a dog because it may follow them around like a dog would.
somehistory says
But it still “feels” like a cat.
When I was growing up, “Tom-boy” was a term used a lot concerning girls who liked to climb trees or play ball more than they wanted to play with doll houses.
But those girls didn’t “feel” like boys. They just had different interests, different likes and hobbies from other girls Some girls are even good at math, which is generally thought of as a male’s area of knowledge..
It is only possible to feel like you feel. One cannot “feel” like another.
It is common to hear someone say upon hearing about a death or disappointment, “I know how you feel.” Many times the reply is, “No, you don’t.”
Feelings may be similar and may be labeled with the same terms. But each person feels as he/she feels
Men do not know how it feels to be a woman. Women do not know how it feels to be a man.
Pablo says
Easy fix……since the customer believes he is a woman, the Muslim employee can exhibit the same mental illness and pretend to be a man or a Buddhist.
Linda says
Sure. Why not? We’ll have everybody living in their own world of make believe.
Axis porcinus says
I’m guessing the tranny, the waxee, was a muslim/conspirator and set up said business with the waxor for a Big Hot Settlement. Anything for money. .Islam is ALL about the Money… and Booty!
Lydia Church says
Exactly, it’s a double standard.
muslims, like true Christians, won’t bake gay wedding cakes either, but there was NO outcry, no backlash, no death threats, no slander from the media and the left at all!
This will most likely go the same way.
William Wallace says
I think this is amazing. Finally, the Muslims are being brought into the picture. This will set a precedent in the courts that they will not know what to do with it. If they side with the woman’s Islamic faith, then all faiths will be protected. If they side with the tranny the Muslims in Canada will start burning everything in sight. How will Justin T behave in this manner he cannot have his cake and eat it too.
Carol the 1st says
If it’s just a Human Rights Commission settling this then won’t any monies collected get tucked under the mattress while any inconvenient truths get swept under the rug?
valerie summer says
According to an article I read last night, Tran wanted Mus to do a Brazilian wax (his private parts) but Mus refused. Article said Tran claimed “leg waxing” because he didn’t want to be embarrassed. I can’t find that particular article, but here is another one on Buzzfeed:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/lanesainty/trans-woman-brazilian-wax?utm_term=.wmGeyVnvK#.ihYr5wDOW
Linda says
They said they’re not qualified to wax male genitalia. Maybe that’s a plausible excuse and they’ll win. If they’re not qualified to do it, they wouldn’t be insured for doing it either. No wonder they refused to do it.
Carol the 1st says
Valerie …Without reference to the relevant article you “read but can’t find”, then linking to a different story can easily mislead rather clarify
Carol the 1st says
Valerie…Without reference to the article you read “but can’t find”, linking to a different story misleads more than it clarifies
IanB says
Oh joy! Leftist heads may explode over this conundrum!
Anne Smith says
What wonderful fun! Two lots of human rights colliding, which human right will the tribunal deem to be superior to the other?
No prizes for guessing.
Giacomo Latta says
This particular conundrum has existed in the UK for years. Who to side with? Islam and multiculturalism or the Left with its women’s rights component. The result? A deathly science since both sides are solidly entrenched in Leftist propaganda.
Carol the 1st says
Giacomo…did you mean to say “silence”?
Yitz says
The liberals have painted themselves in a corner. With their twisted ideology.but get a box seat and watch the fun how the lefties will play this out.
gravenimage says
Canada: Human Rights Tribunal takes case of transgender woman denied service at waxing spa by Muslim woman
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Well, good. Far more often, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal enables the horrors of Islam, instead.