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

D wrote:

Don wrote:
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   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.
>
   <https://aaic.alz.org/releases_2021/transgender-adults-cognition.asp>

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I think in the future there will be three types of SF conferences!
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1. Ones where it is more important to play gender games and identity
politics than SF.
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2. Ones that actively forbid gender games and identity politics to cater
to the conservative/rational crowd.
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3. Ones that couldn't care less and welcome people from both 1 and 2.
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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.
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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!
=)

How symposiums and such sort themselves out is of little consequence in my
case. What counts is a class action lawsuit. Or, to put a finer point on
it, the payoff from such a lawsuit.
    Memory loss qualifies as a symptom of emotional trauma. It may open
the door to toxic tort personal injury law.

Danke,

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