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I think there is a law in Canada against mis-gendering people. Lot of popular tech companies have explicit CoC guideline against mis-gendering. StackOverflow recently fired a moderator for proposing to use gender neutral pro-nouns instead of individual preferred pronouns, even when there is no official CoC defined as such.

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The Canadian Human Rights Act states:

> Every person who is an employee has a right to freedom from harassment in the workplace because of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression by his or her employer or agent of the employer or by another employee.

(there is also a similar paragraph for landlords)

> “harassment” means engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome

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