Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Random Stuff...

Just a couple random issues to discuss.

The first this from New York City:

It's hard to believe that it could get any more absurd in NYC, but thank goodness we have our Commission On Human Rights to help. While we were all basking in holiday cheer and not paying attention apparently, the NYC Commission On Human Rights issued new set of guidelines on gender expression.

According to the new guidelines, it is now an actionable offense to address a person by "Miss", "Mr." or by using inappropriate pronouns like "he" or "she" etc. And employers are no longer allowed to require employees to dress within in any gender-normative clothing that goes against the employee's chosen gender "expression". This just in from them under the heading of "GENDER IDENTITY/GENDER EXPRESSION: LEGAL ENFORCEMENT GUIDE" New York City Commission on Human Rights Legal Enforcement Guidance on Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Expression: Local Law No. 3 (2002); N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 8-102

According tot the new guidelines, if your employer requires that women to dress in skirts and men dress in suit and tie...well, you can't do that anymore apparently. All dress codes must be equal. If a person is "transitioning" then they must be allowed to dress the way they want or you will face the wrath of the court system. Each infraction will cost the employer up to $250,000 if a complaint is valid.

Under the heading of Failing To Use an Individual’s Preferred Name or Pronoun:
Examples of Violations

a. Intentional or repeated refusal to use an individual’s preferred name, pronoun or title. For example, repeatedly calling a transgender woman “him” or “Mr.” after she has made clear which pronouns and title she uses.

b. Refusal to use an individual’s preferred name, pronoun, or title because they do not conform to gender stereotypes. For example, calling a woman “Mr.” because her appearance is aligned with traditional gender-based stereotypes of masculinity.

c. Conditioning an individual’s use of their preferred name on obtaining a court ordered name change or providing identification in that name. For example, a covered entity may not refuse to call a transgender woman her preferred name, Jane, because her identification says that her first name is John.

d. Requiring an individual to provide information about their medical history or proof of having undergone particular medical procedures in order to use their preferred name, pronoun, or title.

So basically, if an potential employer requires proof of your identity and it does not conform to your expression of gender thereby confusing your potential employer, they are no longer allowed to require additional identification. So let's say your government issued ID identifies you as a man, but you are wearing a dress and stiletto heels, your employer or potential employer can no longer require additional ID that would conform with your chosen gender expression. And we wonder as we wander the streets of NYC why there are so many empty storefronts. Oy...

As a gender-normal person (oops, that could cost me $250K), I am now to be known as "cisgendered". When did this get to be a thing? Oh, and just for the record and the law, the title that I shall be forthwith referred by shall be the title of "Her Royal Highness". And if you don't, it will cost you...

And on the national front totally unrelated:

Many Dems are calling for DNC Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz' head. It couldn't possibly be because under her direction, Dems have managed to lose the majority in the US House, Senate, and the majority of state governments too. No, it is apparently because she is too committed to protecting Hillary Clinton from public scutiny by limited the number and timing of presidential debates. All of the debates have been scheduled at inconveniently timed and so far have been sparsely watched by design. The next being this Sunday night on NBC.

As always, please feel free to discuss this or any other topic...

16 comments:

Kit said...

Since when did New York City become the San Francisco on the East Coast?

Critch said...

I don't know what to say...honestly, has the leadership of this country gotten so damn goofy, stupid, (take your pick of adjectives) that they actually sit around and discuss and come up with things like this? What have they accomplished? Absolutely nothing....throw their asses to the curb....

BevfromNYC said...

Kit - It's more like when did San Francisco become the NYC of the West Coast really.

and I will give you one warning for free - You failed to address me as "Her Royal Highness". Hey, it's the law!

BevfromNYC said...

Critch - I admit that I am developing a callous on my forehead from slapping it so much. Yes, we have people who get paid handsomely to sit around and come up with stuff like this. They can't be bothered to fix the real stuff that needs to be fixed like a crumbling infrastructure, rising crime, population flight to less taxed states, and criminals posing as elected officials. But thank goodness they've codified that pesky pronoun issue for trial lawyers though.

Critch said...

The leadership of New Orleans is talking about spending $11 million to remove some Confederate monuments....$11 million...their roads are terrible, crimes I terrible, water is undrinkable and they don't have enough police, but, they can spend $11 million on removing some statues..morons, every one of them.

BevfromNYC said...

Is the Obama's final SOTU address tonight? Will anyone be watching?

tryanmax said...

This is the inevitable march of identity politics combined with so-called social justice. There needs always be another "identity" to fight for or they lose their relevance. I put "identity" in scare quotes because what are generally being defended are behaviors cast as immutable characteristics. The left succeeded in normalizing homosexuality through gay marriage and, as predicted, gay issues are pretty much finished. Everything is about the transgendered now. Uni-sex bathrooms, legally-enforced pronouns. When (not if) they win this battle, it'll be on to the next identity, which, disturbingly I've been seeing signs that pedophiles are being staged to fill the next slot. LINK, LINK, LINK, LINK, LINK,LINK I hope I'm wrong.

AndrewPrice said...

I think gender confusion is a good thing to impose upon liberals. That way they'll breed less.

AndrewPrice said...

Critch, You need to have your priorities. Why not blow all your money on pet peeves when your city is sh*t? What's the point to government if you can't use it to have some fun?

AndrewPrice said...

And no, I will not be watching Obama try to invent a legacy tonight.

BevfromNYC said...

Tryanmax, I have always wondered when the Equality lobby was going to get around the separate single gender bathroom issue. It's like the final frontier of taboos. And it is one taboo that even the most petty of criminals won't break. Personally, I don't really care if it means that I won't have to wait in some long line for the Women's as th men zip in and out of Men's without a wait.

Yeah, the pedophile thing does not surprise me. I can only figure that it is either NAMBLA or UFT that are fronting that issue.

Personally, my money is on a full-throttled push for legalizing polygamy.

AndrewPrice said...

BTW, has anybody noticed the sudden plethora of story lines involving teenage boys being raped? I see this as an attempt to revive the dead rape industry by trying to get males to worry about it too. Not going to happen.

BevfromNYC said...

Yes, I have noticed that, Andrew. But it all fairness, it is all being done in the name of "equality". If male teachers aren't allowed to proposition/have sex with female students, then female teachers should not be able to either. It's a "thing" in NYC - about once a month some public school teacher is suspended for this kind of thing. More and more it's female teachers who are the perps.

BevfromNYC said...

Interesting, Gov. Nikki Haley is doing the Republican response to the SOTU tonight.

Koshcat said...

"...revive the dead rape industry..."

This statement is creepy on many different levels.

AndrewPrice said...

LOL! True.

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