I assume his "safe" way to deal with this would have been to select the "no pronouns" option (this was described as an option in the judgment) and bite his lip?
There seems to have been no overt compulsion to use pronouns on the council's part in this case.
I am currently complaining to the Financial Ombudsman about two banks who both asked me for my 'gender' as part of their application process. One bank asked "Gender - male/female/prefer not to say" and the other had "Gender - male/female/non-binary/prefer not to say". It was impossible to proceed without answering the question. As I don't have a 'gender' , only a sex, it was impossible for me to answer and so both banks lost me as a potential customer. My argument is different from this case in as much as I was being forced to comply with gender ideology in order to get an account. It feels like the 'when did you stop beating your spouse?' question - there is no right answer and even if I said 'prefer not to say' it implies that I DO have an answer to the question but I am declining to share that answer with the bank.
I assume his "safe" way to deal with this would have been to select the "no pronouns" option (this was described as an option in the judgment) and bite his lip?
There seems to have been no overt compulsion to use pronouns on the council's part in this case.
agreed. he was not being forced to do it, it was clearly stated in the original email that it was optional
I have a similar but different issue.
I am currently complaining to the Financial Ombudsman about two banks who both asked me for my 'gender' as part of their application process. One bank asked "Gender - male/female/prefer not to say" and the other had "Gender - male/female/non-binary/prefer not to say". It was impossible to proceed without answering the question. As I don't have a 'gender' , only a sex, it was impossible for me to answer and so both banks lost me as a potential customer. My argument is different from this case in as much as I was being forced to comply with gender ideology in order to get an account. It feels like the 'when did you stop beating your spouse?' question - there is no right answer and even if I said 'prefer not to say' it implies that I DO have an answer to the question but I am declining to share that answer with the bank.
Responses welcome.