> The thing about 'misgendering' now being a crime is an absurd farce. IANAL and dunno if it formally passes as "a crime", but https://assets.documentcloud.or

> The thing about 'misgendering' now being a crime is an absurd farce. IANAL and dunno if it formally passes as "a crime", but https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1694958/54-dawson-v-vancouver-police-board-no-2-2015.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1694958/54-dawson... [270] I also find that, when Ms. Dawson was referred-to with male pronouns in the report of the occurrence on June 18, 2010, it amounted to discrimination on the basis of sex. Notwithstanding that her legal name was Jeffrey, she advised the officers that she was a transsexual female and was not treated as such. I suppose C-16 will now allow this to be called discrimination on the basis of gender, not sex. Whatever. I wonder if it's a hate crime in Canada to claim that the problem of misgendering is not a crime and "an absurd farce". Be careful what you post :)