NYC to fine you $250k for misgendering a transgender

[SunsetBengal]

(01-25-2016, 01:01 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Let me clarify .  I am ok with the current levels of protection for skin color, pregnant women, and the handicapped.    

But protections for choosing to be the opposite sex is just too over the top.    There are just took many rights of others you are stepping on to accommodate someone's personal not mandatory choices.

It's not even that, Lucie.  I'm all for equal protection for all, under the law.  Protection from such things as brutality and harassment.  However, this is overstepping on the grounds of preferential treatment.  By forcing the majority to make special considerations and accommodations for a very small minority, that are not being afforded to the general populous, is wrong.

Is it wrong to do violence to folks because they are black, white, or gay?  Yes.
Is it wrong to ridicule or harass folks because they are black, white, or gay?  Absolutely.

Is it right to force the general population to incorporate new words into the vocabulary, just to accommodate a few?  No.
Is it right to force folks that are born and live as biological females to share a restroom with someone who simply identifies as "female"?  Hell no.