Her account was suspended on Friday. Twitter cited a tweet saying ‘Yeah it’s him’ as the reason, which referred to a man named Jonathan Yaniv, who had been making appointments with female beauticians in Vancouver, asking them to perform a ‘Brazilian’ bikini wax on him. For further detail of this case, you can listen
here.
In a nutshell, when the beauticians declined to effectively wax Yaniv’s balls, explaining that they only offered the service for women, Yaniv took the women (16 in total) to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, in an attempt to sue them for thousands of dollars on account of ‘discrimination,’ claiming he was a woman. Yaniv has withdrawn at least one of the cases against the beauticians – and this month
comments online were discovered in which Yaniv was musing about 10-year-old girls and tampon use.
In tweeting about this case, Murphy referred to Yaniv as ‘he’. For this, she has now lost her account, and with it, the potential to promote both her paid work, and her feminist activism on
Twitter.
Recently it transpired that so-called ‘
deadnaming’ – referring to a previous name of a trans person – is also
banned.