Hello,
A male friend of mine (let's call him "Ted") works for a large UK bank. He isn't in a customer-facing role; he works with the bank's software. Ted has a formal diagnosis of high-functioning autism (I know this term is disliked on here, but I am just trying to give the context of the situation). His workplace know that he has autism.
Ted is gender critical and has been following the trans debate for several years.
His workplace has recently partnered up with Mermaids and are encouraging their staff to use pronouns, raise money for Mermaids, and so on. Ted has also been told that he (and everyone else) will need to attend Mermaids training over the next year.
Ted is very unhappy about all of this and wants to put in a formal complaint so that he doesn't have to participate. As part of his complaint, he is going to say that as an autistic person, he finds Mermaids offensive (given that a high percentage of the children Mermaids "help" are autistic). Would be be wise to do this? Has anyone else challenged an organization like Mermaids on these grounds?
Personally, I think you need to choose you battles. If it was me, I'd probably just go to the training, but not add my pronouns or raise any money for them. I've told him this, but he's adamant that he doesn't want to do the training.
Thoughts? Advice?
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EverydayBelongsToWomen · 26/03/2021 13:07
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