Nobby_66
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Er yeah, I can see how that would cause upset. Ridiculous thing to say.in ottawa canada it would be illegal for you to have not used their preferred pronoun.
In other news today 'the emporer has no clothes'.
i believe part of the issue (according to counter protestors) was that the organiser was calling for extermination of trans types. If so i would have thought that would come under a hate crime.
As I alluded to above, its a bit of a minefield at the moment and all I would ask is that everyone is given a bit of time to get their heads around it all, Ottawa seems to have gone in big early, I can only guess that that is the case if you know the person's preferred pronoun?
At work, we are encouraged to use ours on our email signature so no excuses when exchanging email, the problem arises when meeting someone face to face for the first time. I come from a working environment where senior officers were to be addressed as Sir or Ma'am. I still do it out of habit but strictly speaking, it would be wrong.