Lawyer Carey Linde, who represented a B.C. father who opposed his teenaged child receiving cross-sex hormones but was defeated in court, says that “cancel culture” has infiltrated every aspect of society, including the legal community. The child was born female and has transitioned to male. The father was recently released on bail after going to jail for publicizing information that could identify his child. The court had ordered that the child’s identity be kept private in order to protect the child’s privacy. The court also ruled that the father must use his child’s preferred name and pronouns. University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson famously argued in 2016 that requiring all citizens to use someone’s preferred pronoun would be the start of a slippery slope, where state-imposed speech would become normalized and lead to an ever-more totalitarian society. The issue of the use of pronouns recently stirred controversy in the legal community. Last …