[News] Use of pronouns……

hart's shirt said:

There's clearly a measure of resistance on this thread.

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Acker79 said:

verb (used with object), per·se·cut·ed, per·se·cut·ing.
to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
to annoy or trouble persistently.

That doesn't sound like persecution to me. Sounds like one person has made a complaint. And can you honestly say you know for a fact that someone didn't make a nasty comment and that it is a complaint about bullying of a transphobic nature and not simple someone accidentally misgendering them?



From that article: "Ms Green said the posts were malicious and it was "not just the misgendering" issue.

Ms Green, the founder of the transgender rights charity Mermaids, said she had now withdrawn her complaint to the police."



It would be quite the coincidence for this not to be the same Joshua Sutcliffe: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-53650010

"An investigation in December 2017 found he had "misgendered" the Oxford pupil which broke its policy on equality.

At the time, Mr Sutcliffe told the head teacher he did "not share your belief in the ideology of transgenderism" and later took legal action for constructive dismissal and discrimination."


So your three examples of persecution of people for accidental misgendering involves one person making a complaint (without any independent proof that the complaint is simply about an accidental misgendering), and not really persecution.
A complaint that was bigger than misgendering and was withdrawn
A a one sided interview with someone who it turns out has an idealogical opposition to transgenderism, and unlikely to be 'accidentally' misgendering someone.




Quite. Seems very much like this 'persecution' for accidental misgendering isn't actually a big problem.

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Billy the Fish said:

It's all a load of bollocks really. What's the practical use for this? In 30 years I've only ever referred to colleagues by their first name, why do I need to know their gender?

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dejavuatbtn said:

Do they get drunk, or do they just whine?

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Billy the Fish said:

It's all a load of bollocks really. What's the practical use for this? In 30 years I've only ever referred to colleagues by their first name, why do I need to know their gender?

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