What it means is that if I announce that my gender pronoun is e.g. "thon" (or any other listed here), you will have to use the word "thon" when referring to me (or talking about me).
The alternative is this: you'll end up paying a hefty fine and risk losing your job (as rejecting this obligation now amounts to hate crime).
Sounds like a joke?
Well, it's not.
A new bill (called C-16) passed today by the Canadian parliament, enables just this.
And it seems that there is only one person standing up against this authoritarian absurdity - Jordan Peterson, professor of psychology at the University of Toronto.
If you want to find out more about this fascinating fight, here are the videos:
