(Separate reply for last paragraph, which is about something entirely different from the rest of your comment.)
If you declare that you’re a trans woman and demand to be called “she”, then I expect I’ll call you “she”. If (as I think is actually the case) you’re a cis man, I don’t see that you’re going to get much satisfaction from being referred to that way.
I am not generally in favour of laws that would require me to do that, even if you are in fact not a troll or an asshole but simply a trans woman. Or indeed a cis woman. In my view, misgendering someone is an asshole move of roughly the same magnitude as saying “fuck you” to them or repeatedly calling them stupid. Those things are not generally illegal, and I think misgendering generally shouldn’t be either. My (outsider’s) understanding of C-16 in Canada is that despite Jordan Peterson’s complaints it does not in fact make misgendering people generally illegal.
(“Generally” because I’m not certain there aren’t any situations in which misgendering someone might be, or contribute to, either “fighting words” (considered in law a deliberate provocation of violence) or slander.)
(Separate reply for last paragraph, which is about something entirely different from the rest of your comment.)
If you declare that you’re a trans woman and demand to be called “she”, then I expect I’ll call you “she”. If (as I think is actually the case) you’re a cis man, I don’t see that you’re going to get much satisfaction from being referred to that way.
I am not generally in favour of laws that would require me to do that, even if you are in fact not a troll or an asshole but simply a trans woman. Or indeed a cis woman. In my view, misgendering someone is an asshole move of roughly the same magnitude as saying “fuck you” to them or repeatedly calling them stupid. Those things are not generally illegal, and I think misgendering generally shouldn’t be either. My (outsider’s) understanding of C-16 in Canada is that despite Jordan Peterson’s complaints it does not in fact make misgendering people generally illegal.
(“Generally” because I’m not certain there aren’t any situations in which misgendering someone might be, or contribute to, either “fighting words” (considered in law a deliberate provocation of violence) or slander.)