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While a trans-identifying person might be left feeling upset – or, after the current fashion, ‘unsafe’ – to hear themselves referred to by their sex-based pronouns, the person prohibited from stating objective facts or forced to speak untruths is caused no less distress. Insisting that someone comply with your gender preferences – that they, in effect, become part of the self-identification process – when you know they don’t want to is coercion. Insisting they do so on pain of being accused of harmful or bigoted conduct is emotional blackmail. What is being sought is not courtesy but submission. — Stephen Daisley