Bill C-16 and Pretending to Defend Free Speech

SJWPD officers making a gender pronoun arrest.

Somebody on the internet says something like:

Bill C-16 is about suppressing free speech.

Ok, so you’re making this obnoxious and obviously wrong strawman where you live in some kind of shitty fantasy world where you think you’re standing up against this:

It’s a cold dusty Tuesday morning. I’m walking to the supermarket. Some kind of feeemale-like being walks by me. I politely let out a “mornin’ mam” while tipping my fedora. I heard her stop behind me. I try to keep going, but the following noises violently coerce me to look back. The person tears off their wig and robe and throws it to the ground where it shatters 3 sections of sidewalk, tainting as far as I could see in the morning light with glitter. A voice emanates from the person “Did. You. Just. FUCKING. Misgender me?” I actually just finished my 60 tours of Iraq, was concealed carrying an AK-47 loaded with live rounds, and was wearing my gold-crusted George Bush-Reagan-Nixon american flag underwear, and already asked Jesus to forgive McCain for not taking the fight against Antifa to the streets himself this morning, but regardless I felt like this situation could be better handled by non-violent discussion and debate. As I prepared to structure my purely logical talking points I read off reddit last night, three police cruisers power-slid onto the scene. Before the cruisers fully stopped the officers already had a foot out the door and on the ground, guns out, pointing at me, yelling “Freeze!”.

I slowed raised my hands above my head, revealing a memorial tattoo of all police officers killed by the BLM terrorist organization. A Sargent with a dreadfully familiar mustache came from the other side and said “Sir, you are violation of C-16 Article 14b.”

“With all due respect”, I said while hinting with my eyes at a tattoo saying _All Cops Are Heros_ in latin, “there are only-” I broke out into a chuckled laugh. These gender anarchists were about to get annihilated in a battle of wits. “There’s only two…” I looked up into the sky and saw the sun piercing the cervix of the horizon. I grinned hard, struggling to contain my masculine and aggressive laughter at the total onslaught of pure reason and logic. “… genders”.

The Sargent’s neutral demeanor backslid into an unhappy tone. “Tell it to the judge… fucking natalist” he said, noticing I had a tiny baby tattoo for every abortion I personally prevented, as he put lead-free hand-cuffs on me and walked me to his electric police cruiser. “Sir, what is your badge number?” The Sargent replied “To build a more inclusive environment for womyn and menorities, we now call them ‘vadge numbers’. Mine is 1917.” as he closed the door on me.

The officers in the cruiser, using automatic drive instead of manual, started the nearly silent electric vehicle, which fucking terrified me, like a non-white baby child living without a heartbeat. The driver said “Hey buddy, the law is the law, you know? You seem like the kind of guy who could get the US Supreme Court to strike down a Canadian law, and let me tell you, I’m rooting for you.” The other officer said “Yeah, Sargent Stalin is a real stickler.” he let out an uncomfortable sigh, “I think he would of let you off with a warning if you just apologized and denounced the pledge of allegiance and glass steagall act. But you just had to exercise your-” the officer reviews the report he was writing up-” first? First amendment?”


But here is the reality. There is a trans person, at a university or a workplace. There is one student, professor, or coworker who refuses to use the trans person’s preferred pronouns. They take every opportunity they get to say “facts over feels” and other random “talking points” that in no possible way do any good for a person in that situation. They put strong emphasis on the incorrect pronouns when using them that they would never put for anyone else. Every conversation this person has with the trans person always has an extra snide remark tacked on that is effectively an unprompted comment on the fact that this person is trans. The trans person goes to the HR department and files the fourth complaint on this issue. The HR person says “Thank you.” After the trans person leaves, the HR person files it away, never to think about it again or talk about it to anyone, because trans is not a legally protected group as far as the law is concerned in that company’s jurisdiction. The trans person will likely endure continued harassment and bullying.


This bill does not give trans people any extra rights that cis people do not already have. If you think the existing discrimination protections cis people already have violates your free speechpprincipals, then you should make that argument instead.

You’re pretending to defend free-speech. You’re actually defending bullies and harassment.


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