Posted on 01/04/2016 8:48:13 AM PST by John Semmens
In an effort to discipline its inhabitants into respecting transgender preferences, the New York City Commission on Human Rights updated the City's discrimination rules to incorporate a $250,000 fine for failure to use an individual's desired gender-based pronoun when addressing that person either orally or in writing.
The new rule is more complex than simply using cues from the way a person is dressed to guess whether to refer to that person as "he" or "she." A whole panoply of possible pronouns is covered by the ordinance. These include he/him/his, she/her/hers, as well as others such as they/them/theirs and ze/hir.
NYC Councilman Fernando Cabrera called the severe penalties "essential if we are to break people's habits of carelessly throwing around 'he' or 'she' based merely upon a person's actual sexual anatomy. Person's who are comfortable with their birth sex don't realize how hard it is for those who aren't. Ideally, common courtesy should guide the fortunate majority to comply with the wishes of the unfortunate minority. However, since there are still pockets of ignorance and resistance to these wishes government needs to take corrective action."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://azconservative.org/2016/01/02/hillary-doubles-down-on-benghazi-lies/
You can find the Best of Semi-News/Semi-Satire for 2015 at...
http://azconservative.org/2016/01/02/best-of-semi-news-2015/
I’m safe, since I address everyone with second-person pronouns, which are genderless.
The only reason they didn’t demand beheadings of those who offended the he-shes is they didn’t think they could get the city council to back it.
At least in English.
Can’t we just go back to calling them what they truly are, QUEERS? That designation covers all sorts of unsavory behaviors.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.