Guppy 🌹

I think there's been some disagreement on how the bill can be interpreted, but that's the problem - it's too ambiguous. I'm sure if a bill existed in which you could identify areas of free speech of personal interest that were possibly being threatened, you'd oppose it

By which I mean I'm not convinced you would be entirely against people being prosecuted for refusing to use pronouns, and so you're not disposed to reading the bill as a threat to those people

well I'm in favour of regulation that enables people to sue their employer for discrimination, but that's a whole different story than prosecuting ppl who misgender random folks in the street, which isn't happening

I don't know if this is directed at me, but it has nothing to do with people potentially abusing the legislation; it's about the legal precedent it sets for regulating speech in the future

which would be totally impossible otherwise, right? when the government (or, given a few years, google/amazon’s private police force) wants to get down to brass tacks and throw folks in jail for saying the word “unionize,” no one is like “hmm i wish we’d done that pronouns thing”

the techno-corporate state assemblage does what it does, zones of exception have turned inside out and swallowed deviant political subjectivities — all civil rights rhetoric is flawed, i just think we should let trans people live a little without blaming them for mad trads