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Lola Coco Petrovski's avatar

I wrote this:

I am very worried about those that will really struggle to distinguish between what their senses tell them about a person's sex, and the expectation of the person to be perceived as the sex they want to be perceived as. These people include: those with Autism spectrum disorders who already really struggle to get inline with societies rules of engagement; the elderly who largely don't have a clue about this subject and also already struggle to maintain community engagement; and children who are learning how to trust their senses who might then be told they are wrong and thus, in my opinion, decreasing their safety in the community. I strongly believe that making trans identified people a protected class and legislating around use of names and pronouns will not be inclusive at all. I think it will destabilise our communities by forcing most of us to ignore the innate safety mechanism of speculating on a person's sex for fear of breaking a law. It will further ostracise trans people when the general public decide to stop interacting with them at all, due to this

understandable fear.

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Martin Hanson's avatar

The solution is simple - avoid pronouns altogether. Instead of saying 'his' or 'her', say 'Jane's or 'John's'. The only thing left to the zealots would be to outlaw this by resorting to compelling the use of pronouns. I for one would be prepared to go to prison for refusing to use such compelled speech. The last use of compelled speech was the mandatory greeting and goodbye of 'Heil Hitler'

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