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Michael Higgins: Human rights tribunal seeks to bully and punish trans heretics

$750,000 fine for questioning gender ideology is extremely chilling

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A ruling by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal which imposed a penalty of $750,000 on a trans heretic is as chilling in its implication as it is draconian in its punishment. 

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The extraordinary judgement creates a hierarchy of beliefs in that if a person says they are transgender then everyone is obliged to believe them, regardless of any skepticism. To do otherwise is to deny their existence, says the tribunal. 

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The ruling has all the hallmarks of the Spanish Inquisition: a government-sanctioned body seeking to compel people to conform to a certain orthodoxy on pain of punishment. The tribunal isn’t yet using the Iron Maiden but by imposing such a large cash award the financial pain is considerable and punitive. 

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