laughing dog
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What is this mumbo-jumbo about State-mandated religion?I also reject the implication that it is right and proper to enforce a State-mandated religion on prisoners. That it is somehow okay, as long as 'regular citizens' are not subject to it.
“using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour” .
Why ask “So, the fact that the government can punish me (in Australia, in Canada, now the UK) for 'misgendering' somebody is not something I should fear? I should mutter the prayers of the State-mandated religion and be thankful for the opportunity?” in your OP about a prison rule. It is a reasonable inference,I didn't ask that question nor did I imply that I would be punished as a non-prisoner by a prison system.
I realize that logic is difficult. Prison is different that the free world. Crowd control is more difficult since the population is more prone to violence. Reducing such violence via a “a prison rule against “using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour” makes sense.How you could draw that conclusion from what I've written I'm sure I do not know.
Do you have a problem with that specific rule or simply its use in this situation? Abstracting from the small-minded bigotry in the OP, can you not see that the prison might actually have a better handle of the situation there and how to deal with it than you do?
Maybe. Or maybe it is simply an attempt to deal with a specific problem within the prison.'Misgendering' as punishable offense in prison is simply another manifestation of exactly how widespread gender ideology has permeated culture and politics.
Too bad your concern does not extend to the transgender women prisoners.There are no longer single-sex wards in the NHS in the UK, because trans women are women. I am not likely to be in a female-only hospital ward as a patient (unless somebody has made an egregious mistake, or I decide to masquerade as a woman and utter the words 'I am a woman'). That doesn't stop me from feeling concern for the women that are.