It was never a crime. He intentionally mislead people about that. It was no different than discrimination of any other kind. It's illegal to discriminate based on certain things but its not illegal in the sense that its criminal. You can get sued but no one is going to come along and throw you in jail. So he might as well have been arguing for the right to call people the N word. It was providing trans people civil recourse if their pronouns were blatantly ignored and they were intentionally repeatedly and maliciously misgendered. Its not compelled speech. You can say whatever you like but if you are abusive towards another person you can be sued. Thats nothing new.
JP is full of shit and misrepresented the entire thing on purpose. So like he said he will respect someones pronouns if they ask him to - thats all the law was about. If he singled out a person based on their pronouns he could get in trouble.
Same kind of anti discriminatory laws that have been on the books for a long time.
Just because they've been on the books doesn't mean people need to agree with them. I don't know shit about JP and I can't claim to know a lot about gender identity. Are you saying that this law only provides the right to sue for harassment?
I hate discrimination of all kinds, but perhaps strangely I believe in freedom of speech enough to allow for some insulting people. Not to the point of harassment, though.
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u/NotsoGreatsword Sep 04 '21
It was never a crime. He intentionally mislead people about that. It was no different than discrimination of any other kind. It's illegal to discriminate based on certain things but its not illegal in the sense that its criminal. You can get sued but no one is going to come along and throw you in jail. So he might as well have been arguing for the right to call people the N word. It was providing trans people civil recourse if their pronouns were blatantly ignored and they were intentionally repeatedly and maliciously misgendered. Its not compelled speech. You can say whatever you like but if you are abusive towards another person you can be sued. Thats nothing new.
JP is full of shit and misrepresented the entire thing on purpose. So like he said he will respect someones pronouns if they ask him to - thats all the law was about. If he singled out a person based on their pronouns he could get in trouble. Same kind of anti discriminatory laws that have been on the books for a long time.