Canada’s underlying problem is that it has hate speech laws on the books. Free speech is sacrificed to the oppressive desire not to offend. It’s impossible to discuss certain topics frankly without giving possible offense, so those topics become taboo and go underground—they don’t go away. As many other minority groups are “protected” by such laws in Canada, there’s been significant pressure to add trans and non-gender binary individuals to the list. There’s no evidence that anyone’s safer as a result of these laws. It’s better to fight words with words, rather than relying on the government to be the word police.
Gad Saad, a Lebanese-Canadian evolutionary behavioral scientist, recently
addressed the Canadian Senate to express his concerns over Bill C-16. He wondered if academics should stop designing surveys that measure the participants’ sex as binary due to fears that it would be transphobic. Saad also asked if evolutionists should stop explaining how sexual selection works, as it involves only two sexes while ignoring all the other ones that are alleged to exist. Saad believes that C-16 could jeopardize the way evolution is currently taught, as it may appear to “disenfranchise those who reject fixed binaries and biological essentialism.”
Saad’s referring to the
56 genders that Facebook recognizes. Separate gender from sex and there’s no telling what will happen. This is an era where many are skilled at identifying themselves as victims and then making others bend to their will, often with the assistance of government. Facebook’s new gender policy has just added several dozen new classifications of victimhood to the intersectionality list. The “neutrois” and the “transmasculine” and the “two spirits” and all of the 53 others probably think they deserve separate pronouns. Where does it stop?
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