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Canadians could be jailed for rejecting transgender pronouns

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Canadian conservative commentator Mark Steyn told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that Canada ’s new transgender rights law is simply an “ Orwellian assault on the most fundamental language, the language which defines the two sexes.” “ Misgendering someone will risk you being embroiled either at a Human Rights Commission or in a Criminal Court. And this isn’t a hypothetical,” said Steyn in a June 20 interview with Carlson.   Follow Tucker Carlson   ✔ @TuckerCarlson Canadians could be jailed or fined for using the incorrect gender pronoun. . @ MarkSteynOnline  says be prepared to go to court. 10:28 AM - 21 Jun 2017     3,202 3,202 Retweets     5,658 5,658 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Last week, Canada passed a bill criminalizing any kind of discrimination on the grounds of “gender expression” and “gender identity.”  Critics warn that Canadians who refuse to call individuals by their preferred pronoun, including

Same-sex ‘marriage’ ten years on: lessons from Canada

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November 14, 2012 ( thePublicDiscourse ) - Would recognizing same-sex relationships as marriages be much of a game-changer? What impact, if any, would it have on the public conception of marriage or the state of a nation’s marriage culture? There has been no shortage of speculation on these questions. But the limited American experience with same-sex marriage to date gives us few concrete answers. So it makes sense to consider the Canadian experience since the first Canadian court established same-sex marriage a decade ago. There are, of course, important cultural and institutional differences between the US and Canada and, as is the case in any polity, much depends upon the actions of local political and cultural actors. That is to say, it is not necessarily safe to assume that Canadian experiences will be replicated here. But they should be considered; the Canadian experience is the best available evidence of the short-term impact of same-sex marriage in a democratic socie