NYC businesses face $250,000 fines for violating new gender pronoun regulations

NYC businesses face $250,000 fines for violating new gender pronoun regulations | The American Mirror:
New York City quietly issued new regulations on employers and landlords shortly before the Christmas holiday in an effort to accommodate transgender residents, and the new rules come with stiff fines for violators — willful or otherwise.
The New York City Commission on Human Rights implemented Local Law No. 3 (2002); N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 8-102(23) and issued the Gender ID Interpretive Guide, claiming the new rules reflect “that transgender people face frequent and severe discrimination such that protection from discrimination is ‘very often a matter of life and death.’”
“Refusal to use a transgender employee’s preferred name, pronoun, or title (e.g., Ms./Mrs.) may constitute unlawful gender-based harassment,” the new guide reads.
“Gender is defined as one’s ‘actual or perceived sex and shall also include a person’s gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior or expression,’“ the new ban reads, “‘whether or not that gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior or expression is different from that traditionally associated with the legal sex assigned to that person at birth.’”
The guide notes, “Some transgender and gender non-conforming people prefer to use pronouns other than he/him/his or she/her/hers, such as they/them/theirs or ze/hir.”
...The offers several examples of violations, including:
a. Prohibiting an individual from using a particular program or facility because they do not conform to sex stereotypes.
For example, a women’s shelter may not turn away a woman because she looks too masculine nor may a men’s shelter deny service to a man because he does not look masculine enough....
f. Forcing a transgender or gender non-conforming person to use the single-occupancy restroom.
Violations of the myriad regulations come with hefty fines.
“The Commission can impose civil penalties up to $125,000 for violations, and up to $250,000 for violations that are the result of willful, wanton, or malicious conduct,” according to the new law.