How Now Cow of Brown?
How Now Cow of Brown? Towards a cow-first world Heather Heying This week, the Canadian province of British Columbia announced its fealty to a naked emperor , when it introduced new modernizing legislation to correct outdated language by amending more than 2,300 instances of outdated gendered and binary terms from 21 ministries across 210 provincial statutes. The reason for this is that: Trans and non-binary people, particularly youth, can be erased by laws that use only he and she…[and] this change signals to those people that they are important, and that they are included and protected by the law. Nope. In fact, this legislative change signals to women that we shall continue to lose protections under the law, to children that the adults are missing in action, and to everyone that the government has utterly lost the plot. Sex is binary and fixed 1 , “ non-binary ” is a fiction that serves nobody, and claiming that “he and she” are outdated terms reveals ...