To not be happy that my new work lanyard has “she/her” on it without me asking?

This and indeed I have and I’ve also linked to research like this https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220610120216.htm
showing it can have the opposite effect of being more inclusive. If we point out an engineer is a she or lady engineer it makes it seem less ‘normal’.

I’m female my name is very female eg Emma and I clearly am a a woman - no one needs to point it out to me.

It's an ideological statement that supports the destruction of women's rights, no chance in hell I would wear it.

But they're making their own music and starting their own dance ?

It would insult me because I am clearly she/her and think that the whole of my workplace understands that. Obviously other posters are more annoyed that their preferred pronouns have been assumed but I'd I'd refuse to wear it on the basis they felt the need to print them on my lanyard.

Madness encroaches bit by bit - you can make your own contribution to fighting madness by using a sharpie.

İf I ever end up in a similar situation, I'm going to request that they change it to Her Royal Highness and Her Majesty, and yes my ego is fluid....

This is so stupid. Not asking will mean that anyone who does use different pronouns to the ones someone might assume will be annoyed. And it reveals that the company is one that only wants to pretend to care about this (“look at us, we’re so inclusive we put pronouns on our badges”) while actually not caring enough to check whether those pronouns are correct. So who are they satisfying with this?

I was going to say tipex

Depends on the company. The lanyard is not your property so defacing it could result in a disciplinary

Just makes you look like an utter knob.
Hope anyone doing this from now on in calls you he and his, bet your hilarity would soon wear thin.

Yes - I was answering "Why would you need pronouns on a work email?"

Then you probably wouldn't be able to get into your workplace

Surely not asking completely undermines the point of doing it? You could easily be someone who wanted to use they/them.

Doesn't apply to work passes, though. If you can see the pass, you can see the person.

I wouldn't have a problem with wearing it.
With you not knowing it was going to be on there though - were you asked what your pronouns were? If not it's a bit 🙄 that they've just presumed!

Its rather different because it is a notification that the person thinks they are a woman and not about what you or others think.

You think that the worker in your job is a man your employer adding a pronoun line to the email field has not changed the fact that you dont place that employee into the class woman.

Here's an example:

email from author with a Chinese name that I am not familiar with. They have she/her in their signature.

I forward email to colleague saying e.g. "See email below, I'm not what she's asking".

I don't care what sex they are, it just makes the grammar easier.

In the event I don't have a pronoun, I might Google the name. Sometimes it's very clear, other times it's not. Sometimes Chinese authors use their last name when communicating in a professional setting so that can make things more difficult.

If I don't find out it doesn't matter, I would just say "See email below, I'm not sure what they're asking" or "I'm not sure what Xiaoming means".

This is NOT an argument for putting in pronouns in emails, absolutely not, I am just giving an example where it can be helpful.

It's very easy to avoid using sex/gendered pronouns. You simply switch to the passive voice. This takes some reframing in the mind, but after a while it becomes habit.

I work in an organisation with a clear policy that disciplinary action could be taken over any slips, however unintentional. So to me it became like a game of linguistic contortionism. This has the twofold benefit: no one gets inadvertently offended, and I don't have to compromise my principles (which are that I don't hold with regressive gender stereotypes).

Therefore: 'I agree with what Rachel just said. That was a very valid point'.

Over my frosty corpse would my pronouns be going on anything. The nerve!

I would be furious about this. Women have worked so hard and risked so much to break free of this idiotic ideology that puts women and young people at risk.

I would write a strongly worded letter and point out that gender critical beliefs are protected by law.

Sharpie and complain. How dare they.

This and if they ask what pronouns you want to be known by say you're still deciding so please can it remain blank while you think about it.

I love this!
You could ask for several lanyards and say that your gender is fluid and that you never know how you are going to feel from one day to the next. You could be like Eddie Izzard and be in 'boy mode' one day and 'girl mode' the next and another day could be feeling non binary. So could they supply you with all the different options to suit that particular day.

If ever asked to put my pronouns down, I would say I hadn’t finished deciding if I wanted to be Dave or davina and by making me choose they were forcing me to put myself as Dave when I wasn’t ready but I wasn’t davina. Or some bullshit like that

I would ask for a new one without pronouns. You're absolutely not being unreasonable. I'd be far too embarrassed to go around wearing a lanyard with pronouns on and it's not right that anyone has to display them. It's all absolute nonsense.