Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> writes:

    Steve> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 04:38:08PM -0300, Martina Ferrari wrote:
    >> A judge in the UK had something to say in respect of these
    >> attitudes yesterday:
    >> 
    >> “She will refer to a person by the sex she considered appropriate
    >> even if it violates their dignity or creates an intimidating,
    >> hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment. The
    >> approach is not worthy of respect in a democratic society.”
    >> 
    >> https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/
    >> judge-rules-against-charity-worker-who-lost-job-over-transgender-tweets

    Steve> +1

I really like this  for a number of reasons.

1) it rejects the approach.

2) It does not reject the person  In particular, the judge is not saying
that we should decline  to treat the person with respect, simply the
approach.

So, yeah, Tina thanks for the link.