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This is what gender identity activists have in store for everyone: thousands of dollars in fines for publicly disagreeing with them, or saying that you don’t like them. There are similar stories from Canada and the UK, where they also lack free speech. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-09/canberra-radio-newsreader-told-to-pay-transgender-activist-10000/12642722
Left-leaning people seemed to be asleep when a Canadian Christian was fined $55,000 for the made-up crime of “misgendering,” lulled into ignoring the erosion of free speech because of animus towards the victim of this persecution. https://am1280thepatriot.com/articles/blogs/religion-today-blog/christian-activist-fined-55-000-for-calling-transgender-woman-a-biological-male
In the UK, Kate Scottow was arrested in front of her children, and fined £1,000 for “misgendering.” https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/14/mum-spared-jail-calling-trans-woman-pig-wig-twitter-12241097/
We’ve compared these laws against offending trans-identified people to lèse-majesté laws, like they have in Thailand, a place where ordinary people are afraid to criticize or insult the royal family even in secret Facebook groups. Sound familiar? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/08/what-happens-when-you-criticize-royal-family-thailand/
It says in that article, that, “In Thailand, the royal family is held in high regard,” but ... how would you know? It’s illegal to say otherwise. The law itself is a moral indictment of the people it’s meant to protect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/08/what-happens-when-you-criticize-royal-family-thailand/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/08/what-happens-when-you-criticize-royal-family-thailand/
Far from inventing something new, gender identity activists are demanding that the prerogatives of royalty and autocrats be settled on them as individual citizens, so that they can prosecute perceived insult and disagreement amongst their peers. https://www.osac.gov/Content/Report/e48a9599-9258-483c-9cd4-169f9c8946f5
Lèse-majesté laws originated with the high self-regard of Roman emperors, and they probably made sense to people who had that high a likelihood of coming to a sticky, early end, as a measure against murder and civil chaos.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9
https://books.google.com/books?id=5PwrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA735#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9
https://books.google.com/books?id=5PwrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA735#v=onepage&q&f=false
Rules against offending someone else’s self-regard have always been used tyrannically, from the very beginning. But making “gender identity” protected in law, protecting a falsehood as a civil right, gives every person who claims that falsehood the powers of a petty tyrant.
It took almost no time at all for protecting gender identity falsehoods in law, in a country with limited free speech rights, to turn into blatant extortion and grift. https://nationalpost.com/news/trans-activist-jessica-yaniv-files-second-lawsuit-against-3-beauticians-after-losing-human-rights-suit-to-them-in-2019
If you’re helping entrench pronoun honorifics, putting “gender identity” into law, or aiding the fiction that the term “transgender people” defines a consistently identifiable class of person, you’re helping along this tyranny, this extortionate compulsion of speech.
Criticize gender identity laws while you can, as loudly as you can, because they’d rather you couldn’t.
They are trying to steal all of our speech rights.
Don’t let it happen without a fight. Don’t give our rights away with a smile.
They are trying to steal all of our speech rights.
Don’t let it happen without a fight. Don’t give our rights away with a smile.
