Re: Conference Cancels SF Author Fox For Refusing To Comply With Gender Pronouns

On Sun, 29 Sep 2024, 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.
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   ... 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. ...
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   <https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/author-nation-book-conference-cancels>
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Fox ought to sue for toxic exposure to a known mental health risk:
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   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.
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   <https://aaic.alz.org/releases_2021/transgender-adults-cognition.asp>
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Danke,
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I think in the future there will be three types of SF conferences!
1. Ones where it is more important to play gender games and identity politics than SF.
2. Ones that actively forbid gender games and identity politics to cater to the conservative/rational crowd.
3. Ones that couldn't care less and welcome people from both 1 and 2.
I think in case of Richard, if gender nonsense is so important to the conference, he is better off not attending focusing his time and energy on other things.
For me, it is very simple, if I don't like the rules of a conference (corona, gender, ideology etc.) I simply do not go there. Problem solved! =)