"Before his exit from 𝕏 last week, author and media commentator Andrew Doyle articulated a similar view after he was criticized for referring to Hayton, a biological male, as “she”; a vicious dogpile ensued as enraged gender critical feminists brutally denounced and insulted him."
"Before his exit from 𝕏 last week, author and media commentator Andrew Doyle articulated a similar view after he was criticized for referring to Hayton, a biological male, as “she”; a vicious dogpile ensued as enraged gender critical feminists brutally denounced and insulted him."
Andrew Doyle has not been honest in the Debbie Hayton brouhaha. He took a nasty swipe at Alessandra Asteriti, by name, in his piece at UnHerd. She is a brilliant lawyer and legal scholar, not someone to trifle with. I recommend that everyone check out her "X" (Twitter) posts, especially those from February 11th, where she explains, quite logically, the legal ramifications, at least in the UK, that will ensue from some Gender Critical people using wrong sex pronouns. Here are a couple of her tweets:
"GC people who use female pronouns for at least some transwomen can be quoted as evidence in an employment tribunal against a woman who does not use compelled pronouns and appeals to her GC belief.
It stands to reason that, if GC people are willing to use pronouns, her refusal to do so is 'misgendering with impunity' as per Forstater v CGD. So their 'choice' could actually hurt women in tribunal cases defending their own choice not to call a man a woman.
It could be a transwoman who is not respectful to women (Doyle's criterion), or who did sexually abuse her (though this is not 'known', Turner's criterion). She could lose her job because of their choice to lie about some transwomen."
UnHerd did not grant Alessandra Asteriti the basic courtesy of the right to reply, so she posted this on her own:
Fortunately in the US, we do not have such laws. We can use the correct pronoun as we choose. I do not grant to strangers the right to direct me to misuse language.
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"Before his exit from 𝕏 last week, author and media commentator Andrew Doyle articulated a similar view after he was criticized for referring to Hayton, a biological male, as “she”; a vicious dogpile ensued as enraged gender critical feminists brutally denounced and insulted him."
Andrew Doyle has not been honest in the Debbie Hayton brouhaha. He took a nasty swipe at Alessandra Asteriti, by name, in his piece at UnHerd. She is a brilliant lawyer and legal scholar, not someone to trifle with. I recommend that everyone check out her "X" (Twitter) posts, especially those from February 11th, where she explains, quite logically, the legal ramifications, at least in the UK, that will ensue from some Gender Critical people using wrong sex pronouns. Here are a couple of her tweets:
"GC people who use female pronouns for at least some transwomen can be quoted as evidence in an employment tribunal against a woman who does not use compelled pronouns and appeals to her GC belief.
It stands to reason that, if GC people are willing to use pronouns, her refusal to do so is 'misgendering with impunity' as per Forstater v CGD. So their 'choice' could actually hurt women in tribunal cases defending their own choice not to call a man a woman.
It could be a transwoman who is not respectful to women (Doyle's criterion), or who did sexually abuse her (though this is not 'known', Turner's criterion). She could lose her job because of their choice to lie about some transwomen."
UnHerd did not grant Alessandra Asteriti the basic courtesy of the right to reply, so she posted this on her own:
https://alessandraasteriti.substack.com/p/unheard
Read what she has to say.
Fortunately in the US, we do not have such laws. We can use the correct pronoun as we choose. I do not grant to strangers the right to direct me to misuse language.
I admire Alessandra very much.