How to Make Communication Worse with Virtue Signalling

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I try to avoid politics on this page. However, as I'm openly #Nonbinary & the creator of #InternationalNonBinaryDay, & I reside in BC, I feel I need to say something. I hate this. twitter.com/mbabchuk_mla/status/1634594783028039681

This is a waste of taxpayer money. It is another virtue-signalling boondoggle from a province that has become a living hell to exist in. I don't feel included in BC, and it has nothing to do with gendered language used by the gov't.

I don't feel included because the housing crisis means my husband & I will never afford a place to live. I don't feel included because our health system is in the toilet. Who gives a flying fornication about misgendering when you have to wait hours for an ambulance?

I don't feel included b/c thousands of BCers seemed absolutely fine with enforcing medical segregation across the province. If friends & neighbours can turn on you for your private medical choices, what else will they turn on you for?

& I don't feel included because of all the woke crap that's dictating what our speech should be. More than anything else, I believe in freedom of speech. Freedom of opinions.

& I believe in reality. Like the reality of being a *female-bodied* non-binary person. When I say I am non-binary, I am saying my mental perception of my gender continually lands in the "other" section, rather than "man" or "woman."

But biologically speaking, I am female. Nothing will change that. Ever. Certainly not words. They may be powerful. They are not THAT powerful.

Their little video above says they make this move to make sure that everyone can "access services". What a load of poppycock. (Which, by the way, is NOT a gendered word. It comes from the Dutch word for "soft dung".)

The use of gendered language in laws is not preventing anyone from accessing services. The worst it's going to do is make you feel bad about yourself for a bit. Well, that's life? Sometimes people use words that make you feel bad. You have to learn to deal with it.

However, what I can tell you, as the child of two lawyers -- changing laws from using he/she to they/them might have unintended consequences, making our already maze-like legislation even more of a treacherous swamp.

Y'all may find you regret this move within very short order.

& you know why else I HATE this? This is yet another move towards compelled speech, which I will never be okay with. Especially not when they use my tax dollars to do it.

This change does nothing. It does not materially affect our lives. It might make some people feel better, for a short period of time, before the outrage cycle tells them to be mad about something else.

Meanwhile, it will muddy communication within every level of gov't and all our institutions, which will lead to materially *worse* outcomes. Sometimes clarity means feelings get hurt, but that is far and above preferable to the alternative.

PS: maybe before you spend money on BS like this, you could try to fix our housing crisis, opioid epidemic, or any of several hundred other issues *actually hurting* British Columbians? Just a thought.