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| NYC Mayor de Blasio to fine businesses that fail to use correct gender pronouns |
| 2016-05-19 |
| [WASHINGTONTIMES] Greeting customers as "Mr." or "Mrs." could be costly for New York City businesses under Mayor Bill de Blasio. Blatant violation of the First Amendment. It will never stand. The Gotham mayor’s Commission on Human Rights says businesses that fail to address customers by their preferred gender pronouns are in violation of the law and could be subject to penalties. The Commission issued a "legal enforcement guidance" for the New York City Human Rights Law, which apparently "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." The guidance also notes that some people prefer non-gender-binary pronouns, including "they/them/theirs or ze/hir." I've spoken the English language almost since infancy. I happen to know there ain't no such words. English is one of the languages that has masculine and feminine forms, has had them since proto-Indo European. Perhaps we should change language groups to please the sensitive? 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 guidance says. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 Wonder when 'the Greens' are going to get after (s)him about open ocean dumping? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-05-19 15:38 |
| #13 Meanwhile crime in NY continues to rise and jobs continue to bleed away. Good job |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-05-19 12:10 |
| #12 Sweat the little stuff while the big stuff rolls you over. Stuck on stupid. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2016-05-19 11:03 |
| #11 Watch how eager New Yorkers will be to bend a knee to this new dictate. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2016-05-19 09:19 |
| #10 "'Hey 'mister sister' welcome to Starbucks. I noticed you had a penis when you lifted your skirt and squated on the sidewalk on 5th avenue. How would you like me to refer to you?" Call me Laird. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-05-19 07:17 |
| #9 "'Hey 'mister sister' welcome to Starbucks. I noticed you had a penis when you lifted your skirt and squated on the sidewalk on 5th avenue. How would you like me to refer to you?" "First Lady would be fine, And I'll have a tall medium roast with a double shot of stupidity" |
| Posted by: Airandee 2016-05-19 06:39 |
| #8 He, she, him, her, heshe, and it. And does"hey youse guys" only apply in Brooklyn |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2016-05-19 05:46 |
| #7 Kennedy put men on the moon. The Champ put men in the ladies room. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-05-19 03:35 |
| #6 "assigned" at birth? How about proven at birth. That Y chromosome isn't changeable, no matter how you want to argue with it. Cold hard fact. "Assigning" it "Female" is about as realistic "assigning" the status of alive to a stone. |
| Posted by: Injun Hupinemp6861 2016-05-19 03:15 |
| #5 Ditto #2. Just exactly how is this supposed to work? Welcome, all NYC businesses, to lawsuit hell. Enjoy! |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2016-05-19 02:31 |
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| Posted by: Percy McCoy7690 2016-05-19 01:22 |
| #3 I have an idea - we could require NYC residents to print a name tag and preferred gender pronoun on their lapels before they walk into a business. Say, on a bright yellow star so it sticks out and nobody misses it... |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-05-19 00:47 |
| #2 Will New Yorkers be color-coded or stamped with identifying marks for this? Also, is "idiot" a pronoun? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2016-05-19 00:36 |
| #1 The Pronoun Police. Pathetic. If only this was in The Onion. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2016-05-19 00:35 |