Yesterday, Elon Musk weighed in on Twitter’s decision to cancel their deal with The Daily Wire to stream Matt Walsh’s documentary “What is a Woman?”
This was a mistake by many people at Twitter. It is definitely allowed.
Whether or not you agree with using someone’s preferred pronouns, not doing so is at most rude and certainly breaks no laws.
I should note that I do personally use someone’s preferred pronouns, just as I…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 1, 2023
This was Musk’s full tweet:
Musk’s take was the correct one. Just because the radical LGBTQ mob doesn’t want to hear what Walsh has to say doesn’t mean that Twitter should try to prevent Walsh from saying it. And if Walsh chooses not to care about someone’s preferred pronouns, he’s not doing anything illegal.
Unless, of course, you ask someone like Joshua Erlich, a civil rights lawyer in Virginia who contends that yes, in fact, misgendering someone is against the law:
fyi misgendering is absolutely illegal if it creates a hostile work environment or otherwise violates civil rights laws pic.twitter.com/XyKIE7nlIj
— Joshua Erlich (@JoshuaErlich) June 1, 2023
This guy should get a refund from whichever law school he went to.
Even if that’s the argument Erlich wants to go with, how is Matt Walsh violating anyone’s civil rights by referring to a trans woman as “he” or sharing others’ opinions that biological sex is immutable and not a social construct?
even in a retail context, if you walk into a store and the clerk misgenders you intentionally because you are trans, that is unquestionably a violation of the Virginia Human Rights Act, the DC Human Rights Act, and probably lots of other states where I don't practice
— Joshua Erlich (@JoshuaErlich) June 1, 2023
It’s probably a very good thing that Joshua Erlich doesn’t practice in all those other states. Plenty of states are already screwed up enough without Joshua Erlich running around trying to sue people for misgendering somebody.
I dunno, it's pretty "hostile" to ask people to call a man a woman, and then punish them if they do not.
— George Pasha A∴A∴ ن 🇮🇶 سيف النصر (@R1b11B) June 2, 2023
Right? But Joshua’s totally fine with that kind of hostility. Because CiViL RiGhTS or something.
— DogDad72 (@BillsMafiaTPA) June 2, 2023
— margarito vasquez (@srforms) June 2, 2023
— Thomas Stevenson (@RealTStevenson) June 2, 2023
Bless your heart, Joshua, but:
Telling the truth is not a hate crime.
— Lady Hecate ⚫️ (@hecate40) June 2, 2023
Apparently that’s something that still needs to be said.
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