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An old acquaintance continues to contribute to the gaiety of nations.
That’s the erstwhile Jessica Yaniv, of course, after another whimsical name change. It seems there’s a celebrity Jessica Simpson, so no doubt Yaniv will be suing her for impersonation soon.
He did sue his local health service just a couple of weeks ago, so while he was also harassing the Langley fire department. Busy guy.
A Langley woman known for her controversial legal and human rights challenges is now suing Fraser Health and the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) for allegedly breaching her personal health information.
Jessica Simpson, formerly known as Jessica Yaniv, filed a small claims case in Surrey Provincial Court against the two health agencies on Monday, Jan. 18.
And then went home to take a bath and summon the fire department.
Simpson has also been arrested and found guilty of one charge of possession of an unauthorized weapon after she brandished an electric stun gun-style weapon on a YouTube livestream. She was sentenced to probation and a firearms prohibition in September of 2020.
She has also attempted to sue the Township of Langley over her alleged treatment by Langley RCMP after her arrest on the stun gun charge.
Now he can attempt to sue the Township of Langley over his treatment by Langley Fire Services. It’s an exciting life he leads.
Not a fetish. Nope.
No such thing as AGP, TERF.
My stony little heart is slightly warmed by the fact that the official letter is addressed to ‘Jessica Simpson’ rather than the usual, more formal ‘Ms.’ or ‘Miss Simpson’, thereby denying poor Yanjiv the validation he so desperately demands.
Nicely played, that lawyer, nicely played.
If you can’t say something nice, come right over here and sit by me.
There are people all over Twitter, of course, reporting the Fire Brigade’s actions as transphobic, sometimes while actually including the screenshots of the article saying what *sigh* Simpson has done.
Oyyy. I haven’t seen that. Bad Twitter-fu.
I have in the past read news reports of real, actual women in Britain being issued with court injunctions (more official than a lawyer’s ‘cease and desist’ letter) banning them from calling the fire brigade* unless there is a genuine emergency, with the threat of potential jail sentences for breaching the orders, for doing exactly the same as Yaniv has done. I do not recall a flood of support for those women or accusations of misogyny against the fire brigades or the courts.
Now I think about it, I don’t recall much support for Yaniv over his previous legal problems: maybe the new name and profile pic of a very female-looking not-Yaniv helps.
* also but more rarely the police have also been on the receiving end of such behaviour.
This is the very epitome of a guy with too much time on his hands.
Not only time on his hands, by the look of it, but sufficient money to allow him to bring frivolous lawsuits one after another.
30 medical “emergencies” in three weeks? This over-dramatising bullshit is exactly the reason ‘triggered’ went from being a real psychological term with actual meaning, to the total joke that it is now. Also, add hypochondria to the list of ailments… but this is probably a byproduct of intense narcissism anyway.
The concept of “deadnaming” is great camouflage. While it might be regarded as a matter of courtesy, is it legally binding on the part of the media? Not only do they not include his prior, prior name of Jonathan, they don’t even call Yaniv/Simpson a transwoman.
And I’m guessing that his nuisance calls will be added to departmental reports and statistics as being by a “female” individual?
not Bruce, I don’t know for certain but I don’t think there are laws in place forbidding the media ‘deadnaming’ trans. It’s no different from mentioning maiden names or the real names of people with stage names.
In Britain at least, a person can use any name they want even without officially changing by deed poll, so long as it isn’t done for fraudulent purposes, and there is no legal issue with the media using ‘previously known as -‘ in connection with them.
I’d guess that sometimes it just isn’t worth the shitstorm that always follows deadnaming, what with it being the ‘worse possible thing to do to a trans’ to add to every other ‘worse possible thing to do to a trans’.
I recall at least one TRA militant who threw all-in support to Yaniv at first sight. Only to have to walk back in embarrassment when Jessica’s real character couldn’t be denied.
But Simpson’s trans status is largely irrelevant to the issues here, I think.
It would be wrong for any person, trans or cis, male or female, to do what Simpson has done here. Mentioning that she’s trans or using her birth name doesn’t really add anything to the story I think, and threatens to distract from the point, which is that a litigious asshole is abusing emergency services in a creepy way and threatening to be a litigious asshole over it.
I say “largely” irrelevant because yes, you can make an argument about autogynephilia or whatever playing a role here, but that really takes the story off on a tangent that most readers aren’t going to understand without a lot of explanation, and it’s a controversial area. If I were the news editor I wouldn’t have gone there in this story, either.
The reason I think it’s not entirely irrelevant is the element of fantasy combined with forcing other people to participate in the fantasy. I don’t think all trans people are narcissistic and/or demanding, especially to the extent that Yaniv/Simpson is, but I do think trans-ism attracts people who are. I think it presents a glorious opportunity for people who like to grab attention, to disrupt, to get in people’s faces, to make outrageous demands. I think that’s inherent in the ideology as it has developed, because the demands the ideology makes are absurd and sweeping.
Another reason I don’t think it’s entirely irrelevant:
I guess I’m struggling to see the significance of that. Assuming it’s true that this township logs emergency calls by gender, what exactly is going to happen? The decision makers in Langley are going to know about Simpson’s antics; it’s not like the mayor or whoever is going say “my goodness, it appears that 95% of emergency calls are by women, and 95% of those are false alarms, we shall stop answering calls from women.” Anyone locally doing any data analysis is surely going to know to toss out Simpson’s numbers before drawing any conclusions, assuming there is such analysis done.
And on a provincial level, these wouldn’t be a rounding error in the statistics.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I think a single instance of having to call the fire department because I can’t get out of the bath on my own would be sufficient to prevent me from ever getting in the bath again. EVER. I was briefly in trouble once when I had a bath with a broken collar bone, and that was that. One-handed showers for the next six weeks.
Screechy, maybe in this case, it doesn’t matter that much, but there is attention being paid in some circles to the increasing crime rates among women, not at the local level per se but in general. In this case, these are not violent crimes, but the statistics still add to the crime statistics for women. I don’t think there will be any immediate effect in terms of action against women; I think we’re looking at a future of “see, women do this stuff as much as men, maybe more”, which could in some cases be used against policies to protect women.
Again, that may not seem relevant in this case, but any uptick in crime numbers among women is grist for the mill of those who see no reason to allow women-only spaces, or protect women from violence, etc.
Yeah, certainly if there were a lot of Simpsons doing this, it would make a difference. I just think that this is so clearly an outlier that it’s not worth worrying about the impact on overall statistics, so I was having trouble understanding that point.
Anyway, there’s obviously plenty of other reasons for the authorities to put a stop to this.
I was going to think of something to say but I did some background reading first and found this and
this.
Yes, that was my thought in making the comment.
I wonder if his trans status is what’s letting him seemingly get away with this? How many nuisance calls are allowed before charges are laid? Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that number would likely be well below 30 for most individuals doing this? Is it because the Langley FD doesn’t want to get entangled with any litigious asshole, or because they don’t want to get entangled in human rights tribunals because Yaniv/Simpson is trans? The pattern of attention-seaking behaviour may not be trans related (though keeping in mind Ophelia’s comment about the ideology possibly attracting narcissists), but I wonder if the response, or relative non-response of the authorities is? If they’re being extra cautious and careful because they don’t want to be seen to be somehow bullying a member of the “most oppressed group”, then that is something worth commenting on. 30 calls and responses in 21 days with only a letter of warning seems mighty tolerant of a known nuisance.
Screechy:
One reason I think it’s relevant is that there are a lot of autogynephilc men in the trans movement. Few are as obviously so as Simpson, but examples of middle-aged AGP men are not exactly thin on the ground. Point this out, though, and you’re a transphobe, of course. You’re told that AGP doesn’t exist, TWAW and you’re a bigot.
Cases like Simpson’s make AGP a lot more difficult to deny. Of course, the example will be NO-TRUE-SCOTSMAN’d away, but it opens the door so we can more easily point to the dozens (hundreds?) of other high-profile cases of men in their 40s with marriages and kids under the belt who, instead of suddenly wanting an affair with a younger woman, decide they want to be that woman. And beyond that, the thousands of men whose profile pics have them in basques and fishnets. You know, like women habitually wear, as everyone knows.
It’s a strong argument against (at least, all) trans women being women.
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Exactly. As I have previously written, the more I see of TRA rhetoric the less I think this is about traditional notions of “femininity” (according to which women are supposed to be nurturing, caring, empathetic, understanding, modest, pure, emphasize cooperation over competition etc.) or men failing to live up to traditional ideals of “manliness”. Even if we were to accept the most conservative and reactionary version of gender stereotypes imaginable at face value, not a single person who ever lived was less representative of traditional notions of “femininity” than loud, aggressive, shouty, infinitely entitled male bullies who revel in hateful, violent rhetoric against women, telling them to “die in a fire” as well as suck their “lady-cock”, posing before cameras with baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire etc.
Indeed, the more I think about it, the more I think the “autogynephilia” explanation is spot on: This has a lot less to do with traditional notions of “femininity” than the hyper-sexualized, objectifying, fetishized notion of femininity conveyed by pornography. These guys want to be their own jerk-off fantasies.
I wonder if they’re the chokers or the choked. Among the non-trans population it’s men who choke and women who are choked. Purely coincidence I’m sure.