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From: Don <g@crcomp.net>
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Subject: Re: Conference Cancels SF Author Fox For Refusing To Comply With Gender Pronouns  Pronouns
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 02:53:54 -0000 (UTC)
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Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> Don wrote:
>>      Richard Fox is an incredible sci-fi author with his Ember
>>      War series and for Baen Books, and yet Author Nation is
>>      choosing to discriminate against conservatives who don't
>>      want to play pronoun games.
>>
>>      ... Fox chose to mock the question rather than take it
>>      seriously in the private survey. He filled out the form
>>      with "f***/off," as he rightly didn't want to play the
>>      game of gender politics for a conference that is supposed
>>      to be about business. ...
>>
>>      <https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/author-nation-book-conference-cancel
s>
>
>        Fox chose to say what he likes to be refered to apart from his name.
> Looking at his picture it seems he is male and might prefer to be
> designated Him or He. He chose to inject his personal politicis into
> the matter.  But maybe he did not want to be around the people who
> prefer pronouns that may not fit their appearance.
>        But he is the one who chose to ignore the simple instruction
> and maybe he felt entitled as a male author of some standing to ignore
> social rules.
>>
>> Fox ought to sue for toxic exposure to a known mental health risk:
>>
>>      Transgender and gender nonbinary adults in the U.S. are
>>      more likely to report worsening memory and thinking,
>>      functional limitations and depression compared to
>>      cisgender (non-transgender) adults, according to two
>>      studies reported at the Alzheimer's Association
>>      International Conference (AAIC) 2021 in Denver and
>>      virtually.
>>
>>      <https://aaic.alz.org/releases_2021/transgender-adults-cognition.asp>
>>
>        quoting from the article
>  "and the social inequities experienced by transgender adults are also
> linked to an increased risk of cognitive impairment."
>
>        So if Mr.Fox had appeared he might have imposed social inequity
> upon any transgender or non-binary individual who crossed his path.
>        Better if he stayed away then, at least for the gender inconguent
> persons attending the conference. And some of them might be authors.

Imposition of inequity is irrelevent. Instead the proposed lawsuit
targets the toxicity of mandatory groupthink.

Danke,

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