Yesterday’s story from Canada – the discriminatory haircut – was kind of comical. This latest is deadly serious. In British Columbia a gender critical man is being fined $750K for not believing in gender identity. If you don’t believe in gender identity then – in BC – you’re denying the existence of trans people. Existential denial. And that’s not allowed. It’s blasphemy.
The key point of that quote from the Human Rights Tribunal:
If a person elects not to “believe” that gender identity is separate from sex assigned at birth, then they do not “believe” in transpeople. This is a form of existential denial: Oger (No. 7) at para. 61. It is not, as Mr. Neufeld argues, akin to religious beliefs. A person does not need to believe in Christianity to accept that another person is Christian. However, to accept that a person is transgender, one must accept that their gender identity is different than their sex assigned at birth.
Christian belief doesn’t require anything from anybody else. It’s personal. Gender ideology requires that other people accept your belief. It’s a public imposition. It requires people to say what they don’t believe: to accept that someone has magically changed sex when you know perfectly well that they haven’t – because they can’t.
This CBC report just presents the case as a nasty man being prosecuted for hate speech “against 2SLGBTQ+ people”.
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Mick Hartley 
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