Patheos Blog: World and Gender Identity

patheos blog: From Castro's reign of terror, in which truth and individual rights were crushed under an apparatus of oppression, torture and death, to Orwell's world of 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, according to Hamilton Spectator. What is he so afraid of First, he wants to stoke fear with attendant outrage against a Bill C-16, which is in second reading in the Senate, and is the latest attempt to add gender identity and gender expression to the Human Rights Code and the Criminal Code of Canada. Masson's article The Brave New World of Post-National Socialism Dec. 8, which originally appeared Nov. 30 on the Patheos blog Evangelical Pulpit is full of fearful imagery. He adds his voice to that of University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson in attempting to convince us that this would usher in a new regime of draconian restrictions on free speech, creating a situation in which refusal to use a person's requested gender pronoun would be criminalized as hate speech. In the past, whenever legislation of this type has been proposed, the so-called religious right has sought to whip up opposition using the Transgender Bathroom Panic ruse, in which transgender women are portrayed as being a Trojan horse that would allow male predators easy access to women's washrooms and change rooms. This is patently absurd. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.