Quote Originally Posted by rumox View Post
I don't think some guy in the street refusing to call people by their prefered pronouns will get fined or arrested, but what about in the workforce or anywhere academic? Now that gender is a protected identifier in regards to discrimination in the human rights act and added to the criminal code in regards to hate speech and hate crimes I can see a refusal of using prefered pronouns being a contentious issue in the future. Time will tell.
It's been about 3 years since the bill passed, and there hasn't been a single case of anyone being arrested or charged under it. The only effect is that it extends existing protections to gender identity. So, for example, you can't refuse to serve someone because they're trans, and you can't go around saying that trans people should be exterminated. Misgendering isn't an issue, I agree that would be quite absurd and overreaching, though I also think people who go around intentionally misgendering others are assholes.