Did You Hear? Rule Drafted Fining People For Calling Others By Wrong Gender…

by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton | May 20, 2016 2:09 pm

Unfreaking believable![1] Red de Blasio is now looking to fine people who do not use the right pronoun (made up pronouns at that) to describe people in New York a whopping $250,000. This is just insane. Things have totally spun out of control. They are using a “legal enforcement guide” to slap employers with these fines if they do not use a person’s preferred name, pronoun and title, regardless of sex assigned at birth, anatomy, gender, medical history, appearance or the sex indicated on the individual’s identification. If you are still in New York, you had better pack your bags… it has gone full blown bonkers and will only get worse.

DeBlasio[2]

From The Right Scoop:

Greeting customers as “Mr.” or “Mrs.” — or even not using the pronoun “ze” or “zir” — could prove costly for New York City businesses under rules drafted by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s bureaucrats.

The Gotham mayor’s Commission on Human Rights says entities that fail to address customers by their preferred gender pronouns and titles are in violation of the law and could be subject to penalties of up to $250,000.

The commission issued a “legal enforcement guidance” for the New York City Human Rights Law, which now “requires employers and converted entities to use an individual’s preferred name, pronoun and title (e.g., Ms./Mrs.) regardless of the individual’s sex assigned at birth, anatomy, gender, medical history, appearance, or the sex indicated on the individual’s identification.”

It lists several examples of violations that could result in fines, including the “intentional and repeated refusal to use an individual’s preferred name, pronoun or title.”

“For example, repeatedly calling a transgender woman ‘him’ or ‘Mr.’ after she has made clear which pronouns and title she uses,” the guide says.

The maximum civil fine that the commission may impose upon “misgendering” is $125,000. But when the violation is the “result of willful, wanton, or malicious conduct,” the maximum fine can double to $250,000.

This is just unreal. This is your New York values at work. Just think, this is who Donald Trump supported for mayor in New York. The guidance, issued in December as part of a broader interpretation of the human rights law, notes that some people prefer pronouns that don’t have masculine or feminine forms, including “they/them/theirs or ze/hir.” The former are plurals being drafted for use in the singular, while the latter are among several alternative pronoun systems developed by academics and/or LGBT communities. It lists several examples of violations that could result in fines, including the “intentional and repeated refusal to use an individual’s preferred name, pronoun or title.” “For example, repeatedly calling a transgender woman ‘him’ or ‘Mr.’ after she has made clear which pronouns and title she uses,” the guide says. The guide says businesses can avoid penalties “by creating a policy of asking everyone what their preferred gender pronoun is so that no individual is singled out for such questions and by updating their system to allow all individuals to self-identify their names and genders. They should not limit the options for identification to male and female only.” While businesses are held to a strict standard, the guidance makes clear that the government is exempt from the law in “circumstances where certain federal, state, or local laws require otherwise (e.g., for the purposes of employment eligibility verification with the federal government).” I’d like to know how this is not a direct violation of the First Amendment? Writing at his Volokh Conspiracy blog, law professor Eugene Volokh questioned how the guidance is permissible under the First Amendment. “So people can basically force us — on pain of massive legal liability — to say what they want us to say, whether or not we want to endorse the political message associated with the term, and whether or not we think it’s a lie,” Mr. Volokh wrote. Bingo. This is sheer tyranny in the name of political correctness and it is exceedingly unconstitutional in nature.

Endnotes:
  1. Unfreaking believable!: http://therightscoop.com/dude-nyc-commie-mayor-now-wants-to-fine-businesses-for-using-the-wrong-transgender-pronoun/
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