Debian has no place in the bedroom of its members. No one should force their lifestyle on others. This works both ways.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 5:23 PM Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> writes: > > > You try to somehow equate denying a "right" to be smug over forcing > > others to lie, with a direct expulsion. One of these is just a feeling, > > the other is an actual severe action. > > I'm not sure that I parsed that correctly, Adam. I hope that you didn't > just imply that asking someone to use someone else's correct pronouns is > asking them to lie, and I just misunderstood what you were trying to say. > > > Accept my apologies that I'm not inclusive enough to demand expelling > > people, and that I'm not diverse enough to demand a homogenity of > > opinions. > > No. > > To avoid any appearance of doubt, I stand with my transgender colleagues, > I believe that it is completely unacceptable to attempt to erase their > experience, and I am completely in favor of expelling from the project > anyone who insists repeatedly on intentionally referring to them by an > incorrect gender or otherwise verbally harassing them or denying their > existence. > > This principle is more important to me than the unity of the project and > is more important to me than Debian. > > I do not believe diversity is about accepting anything including > intolerance. I believe in making explicit choices, and standing by those > choices. I support LGBT people and do not support anti-LGBT people. If > that's in conflict with Debian's code of conduct, so be it. > > -- > Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > > -- (oVo) /)(( ))(\ ^ ^ 778 707 4922
