• chakan2@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m specifically talking about the harassment case. It codifies repeatedly using the wrong pronoun as a crime.

    Do I think that behavior is bad or morally wrong…Yes.

    Do I think it’s a crime? No.

    It’s a slippery slope when things like this become law.

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      What are you talking about? In the case of harassment (or, more broadly, discrimination), it’s not the use of incorrect pronouns that gets you in trouble, it’s the discrimination. The use of incorrect pronouns is not the deciding factor on whether a person is discriminating, it’s only one piece of the puzzle, and the CHRT has already dismissed a case regarding refusal to use neopronouns because there wasn’t enough reason to consider it discrimination.