Posted on 05/24/2016 1:49:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Individuals living in New York City can choose from a minimum of 31 different gender identities, many of which allow them to fluctuate between some version or combination of male or female identities.
Businesses that don’t respect and accommodate an individual’s chosen gender identity risk incurring six-figure fines under rules implemented by the city’s Commission on Human Rights.
The list of protected gender identities is available online and includes options such as “gender bender,” “two spirit,” “third sex,” “androgynous,” “gender gifted,” and “pangender.” A city official speaking on background confirmed to The Daily Caller that all of the listed identities are protected by the city’s anti-discrimination laws, but said that the list was not exhaustive.
The city does not provide definitions of the various gender identities, but TheDC was able to define several of them from glossaries provided online by the University of Wisconsin and the University of California Berkeley.
Someone who identifies as “genderqueer,” for example, is a “person whose gender identity is neither man nor woman, is between or beyond genders, or is some combination of genders.”
A “gender bender” is someone “who bends, changes, mixes, or combines society’s gender conventions by expressing elements of masculinity and femininity together.”
Similarly, someone who is “gender fluid” is a person “whose gender identification and presentation shifts, whether within or outside of societal, gender-based expectations.”
If someone self-identifies as “androgynous,” it means they are “appearing and/or identifying as neither man nor woman, presenting a gender either mixed or neutral.”
“Two spirit” individuals are Native Americans “who have attributes of both men and women, have distinct gender and social roles in their tribes, and are often involved with mystical rituals (shamans).”
If someone is “pangender,” their “gender identity is comprised of all or many gender expressions.”
The full list of gender identities can be viewed online in a document provided by the city’s Commission on Human Rights.
The city’s gender identity guidance was issued in December but has been the subject of ongoing media attention in the past week. As noted by law professor Eugene Volokh, businesses can be fined up to six figures for knowingly using the “wrong” pronouns to refer to a customer or employee.
Seth Hoy, the Human Rights Commission’s press secretary, told TheDC that the guidance was issued to “ensure that every transgender individual in New York City is treated with the respect and dignity they deserve” but assured that that “accidentally” using the wrong pronouns “will not result in a fine.” His full statement is below:
The Commission’s legal guidance on gender identity protections under the NYC Human Rights Law addresses situations in which individuals intentionally and repeatedly target transgender and gender non-conforming people. Accidentally misusing a transgender person’s preferred pronoun is not a violation of the law and will not result in a fine. The Commission issued this guidance last year so that employers and individuals understand what the law says and to ensure that every transgender individual in New York City is treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.
So there’s already a ton of red tape for businesses in NY. Now there’s going to be pink tape and blue tape. I can see some businesses closing down over this. If not immediately, then as soon as they get sued.
How is characterizing certain aspects of a world view as “xxx” values somehow running it down? I’m always honored when a leftist denigrates my state’s “Texas values” as something detestable, because I know who’s uttering it. In fact, we have a conservative political organization named “Texas Values,” to which I give regularly.
Could it be that the leftist New Yorkers secretly know that their values suck, and are alarmed when someone points it out?
Insanity
I guess some people and some governing bodies are just weird.
5.56mm
"A leftist," sure, but you usually don't hear that kind of talk from politicians running for the top of the ticket, because they know that it alienates lukewarm voters.
You can be Rosie O'Donnell or Sean Penn or Margaret Cho or Rob Reiner, or some other comedian or air-headed celebrity, or you can be president.
Ted didn't understand that that goes for conservatives too. You can take the cheap shot and be on that level or you can show yourself to be above it.
“Businesses that don’t respect and accommodate an individual’s chosen gender identity risk incurring six-figure fines under rules implemented by the city’s Commission on Human Rights.”
If I were a business with some big funding, I’d allow male, female and transgender - that’s it. If they attempted to fine the business, I’d immediately challenge the suit AND turn around and sue EVERY SINGLE BUREAUCRAT, PLUS THE MAYOR - personally, for violation of my Constitutional rights under color of law (Title 42, Section 1983). Their position as a government employee does NOT protect them from personal liability in these matters.
There needs to be push-back by people with back bones. It is the only way to stop this nonsense, this fascism.
I am a gender parrot.
That’s right.
I copied handsome, homosapien, hetersexual men who preceded me and chased wantonly after women.
New York is now the Baskin-Robbins of genders.
I shall henceforth identify as Barack Hussein Obama, and shall move into the White House, and commence rescinding all previous Executive Orders.
Hey, I’ve evolved.
Anyone who disputes me is a hateful bigot.
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple...don’t mind the maggots.
Does their genanoia? Are they genaphobic? Do pangenders go for NY Style pizza?
Who do they think they are? Baskin - Robbins?
Thats a lot of bathrooms
Hold....the next “City by the Bay”? Uggg
“Hey you” may become really popular.
You could have a different gender identity every day of the month. They do claim it’s fluid, don’t they? What an experience that would be.
Good grief...living things do not have a gender. Nouns and pronouns have gender.
Human beings have a sex, and it’s a binary option.
The party of science should know better.
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