Unsure if this is the best heading to post this under, but here goes.

So, up here in Canada our government, in all its wisdom, enacted Bill C-16 which amends the human rights act to include gender identity and expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination. I've been having many (lively) conversations and debates about the matter, mostly precipitated by Jordan Peterson's opposition to it, as it compels speech for nothing more than an ideology, a first in Canadian history.

Now, the act doesn't explicitly state that speech can be compelled, but the effect is just that: if you don't refer to someone by their preferred pronoun (and there's tons of them), you can be accused of discrimination. An LGBT activist is quoted as saying that NOT referring to them with their prefered pronoun is an act of violent abuse.

Am I wrong in thinking we're losing our collective minds? This bowing to a vocal minority for the sake of political correctness once again has the tail wagging the dog.

A closely related issue is gender fluidity and the tossing out of basic science, biology, and pharmacology, which all adhere to the truths of binary sex identification. The new social justice warriors in this subject state that sexual difference between male and female are nothing more than a social construct; that we're all the same, and can "identify" with whatever sex we want.

It's all so filled with logical fallacies and outright denial of science. There are over 1,600 genetic differences between males and females, many of which are leveraged by pharmaceutical treatments of some diseases such as lupus.

Open for discussion.