To add to the freedom of speech debate.I read about this recently in Canada.
This university is trying to force everyone on campus to use these made up 'gender pronouns'.They're not even real words.Instead of 'he' or 'she' they want the students and staff to start calling people 'ze' and 'zir' among a whole list of other made up words.One proffessor is standing up against this and he says that forcing people to use these made up words to address people goes against freedom of speech.
'A raging debate over political correctness, gender identity rights and free speech led to a tense forum at the University of Toronto Saturday.
Professor Jordan Peterson, who has said he will not use ‘made up’ gender neutral pronouns like ze and hir instead of he and her, argued that rubbish science is being used to falsely claim that virtually all differences between males and females is essentially an invention of society.
His position has earned him two reprimand letters from his employer, the University of Toronto, and led to Saturday’s debate where he went up against two professors who vehemently disagreed with him.
Professor Mary Bryson, from the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, said scientists have no way of accurately looking at gender in the absence of sexism and misogyny.
“We can’t actually reach conclusions about what we take to be gender differences,” Bryson said. “A lot of what we’ve been hearing here is hate propaganda.”
Peterson said that kind of ‘social justice warrior’ thinking is behind the Ontario Human Rights Code and the new federal law Bill C-16, that protects gender identity and expression.
The laws make it very dangerous to speak one’s mind on gender issues, and has stifled free speech on university campuses, he said.
One lawyer he consulted told him that the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal is a “kangaroo court” that should be abolished, Peterson said.'
http://m.torontosun.com/2016/11/19/i...sion-at-u-of-t