“We’re certainly not afraid. We’ve expected this for some time, and it was greeted with a belly full of laughter,” he said in an interview with me in April over Zoom. He explained that the Western Standard’s policy is to use preferred pronouns when an individual’s transgender identity is irrelevant to the story, but that, according to him, Simpson obviously does not meet this bar and, further, the activist’s behaviour is “undeserving of respect, and therefore undeserving of accommodation.”