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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Conference Cancels SF Author Fox For Refusing To Comply With
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 18:01:24 +0100
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On 29/09/2024 04:26, 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-cancels>
> 
> 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>

It isn't contagious.

Or at least, we're not admitting that it is.