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[–] Rocket@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

if I started purposefully calling you ma’m or lil miss all the time (assuming you’re a dude) you wouldn’t like it.

What's not to like? The nerd trying to be a bully is funny (and a bit sad).

If I suspended the charter to make a law that everyone has to call you lil miss you don’t think you’d be mad?

I would think you are mad (in the insane sense).

The right however is going to war over this shit

I'm sure there is no completely unified front, but many are pushing for this because they consider it to be a mental illness. If you look at it from that point of view, you can see why they do not see the problem with calling notwithstanding. It is already expected under the Charter that educators notify parents when they see children displaying symptoms of illness. So, from their point of view, no rights are lost and those "not understanding" the health ramifications are the ones actually violating the Charter.

In other words, the real clash is the idea of it being a mental illness v.s. it being normal human expression. Words are merely caught in the crossfire.