Yes, you can use Daily Caller as a source. Or, from a less cringe-filled, feaful, reactionary perspective,
"The new law, passed in the Senate on Thursday, prohibits discrimination against trans and gender non-binary individuals, and includes them within the protections provided by the hate-speech and hate-crime provisions of the criminal law. With the enactment of Bill C-16,
the federal government finally joins the provinces and territories that have amended their human rights codes to recognize and protect gender diversity. It is a long overdue statement of the formal equality of trans and gender non-binary Canadians."
It's not exactly a first and it's just not that big of a deal.
In this very interesting rebuttal to Jordan Peterson (appearing on a Canadian program), it appears Peterson himself is clear this idea of pronouns as hate speech is his construction, not an inherent part of the legislation:
"Peterson then moves on to argue that what he’s really upset about is a change to the
Canadian Human Rights Act and the
Canadian Criminal Code proposed by
Bill C-16. His concern is “that it’s loosely written enough that the kinds of things that I’m talking about [concerning making it illegal to use the wrong pronouns for a person] could be transformed into hate speech almost immediately.” Full disclosure, I am not a Canadian, nor a lawyer, so I have no expertise or nuanced understanding of the Canadian legal system. However, when I look at
Bill C-16, all I see are protections that already exist for race, ethnicity, skin color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, and disability being extended to transgender and non-binary people. Most of the changes to the laws are simply the insertion of the phrase “gender identity or expression” into the text of the Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code. There is nothing in this bill about pronouns. If Peterson thinks the Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code are “too loosely written,” that’s a different complaint than the slippery-slope argument he’s making about gender and pronouns."
The full rebuttal had a lot of other gems besides this, but it's a long read.
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