Just been told to remove my pronouns from my Teams profile

No. I couldn’t care less. As I said earlier, I’m one of the Sams and people can assume what they like from my written communications. Once we meet or speak it becomes entirely clear which pronouns are appropriate to use when referring to me. And if the ‘pronoun’ they choose to use is “That demanding gorgon from Admin”, fine that’s their perception. As long as they get the job done, it really makes no difference to me.

How about showing the professionalism and respect you expect from others at all times at work?

At the risk of stating the obvious, I'm free to have a private belief that women or minorities have no place in the workforce, however it's most likely a disciplinary offence if I act upon or bring those beliefs into work.

Well to be "fearful" is ridiculous

But it's not very professional of you to put it there

And this is how the ideology gets embedded, even among those who do not believe it and who understand its insidious harmfulness. Threats of what might happen if you do not perform Being Kind. Threats of what might happen if you do not perform docile femininity. Fear of the iron fist in the velvet glove…

Just ignore! , you are an uncooperative woman and must be humbled and put in her place obviously 🙄

Not pandering is just not putting your pronouns isn’t it? Job done.

Challenging the status quo is not a pre requisite for not pandering to the misogynistic gender identity cult.

I suppose I think of it more like supporting a football team than an ethnicity, even though they lose every other game! Though Dara has probably expressed it perfectly.

It sounds like you've become entitled and maybe even believe you're untouchable in this job. The thing is, you can't use having a long and successful career as an excuse for behaving any way you wish (any more, isn't it precisely what we're all trying to correct now?), and that's whatever your gender or pronouns. Respect applies all round nowadays. Apart from the fact that you laughed at your line manager, which is particularly unhelpful if they are sensitive or have a bit of an ego, by doubling down you may now be seen as unpredictable and unwilling to learn lessons. I'm not saying you should put down your pronouns in Teams or email, which you were never required to do in the first place and was a complete non-issue. I'm saying don't exhibit self-righteous behaviours and -why not- try and show a bit of humility. If you persist, don't be under any illusion, this will be escalated further up the chain at some point. You may get passed by for promotion next time or even made redundant (you may find yourself top of the list if they restructure). Importantly, everyone can have a lapse of judgement, particularly after a long year of sustained work, so it's really about how you behave now. A clever move may be to retake the diversity training, then tell your manager you've made this a priority because you realise you didn't react in an appropriate way and could have handled his feedback better. Basically, just modeling the behaviours which I'm sure you expect from your colleagues.

"Make the tea", fuck off.

I am done with all of this shit. ALL of it. I treat people politely and professionally, but I am no longer engaging with any of this bullshit.

Any effect on my career, such as being sent to "make the tea" at my level will be met with a law suit for age/sex discrimination.

OP hasn’t challenged the status quo. She has just been immature.

If using sex based language, not someone’s chosen gender identity language, is necessary for accurate communication about the person or an issue or situation, why should gendered language take priority?

See, this is when I think people have lost the plot.

No, you don’t get sent off to make the tea for making a (possibly ill judged) pronoun choice.

You get sent off to make the tea when the men can’t bear the fact that you’re female, well qualified and perfectly able to do the job, and because you’re the first women who has pitched up to challenge the status quo.

Humans come in only 2 sex.

Is using she for a male using the correct pronoun?

Why should l prompt someone to change their language and use wrong sex pronoun?

Is there any problem when academics adopt the ideology that males who have "feminine" thoughts or act in a way which is attributed to being "feminine" are nolonger male but become or were always female?

Do you think that organisations should coerce people to comply with someone’s demanded language that suits their philosophical belief when it doesn’t reflect material reality?

Why should someone’s language that suits their identity but is not based on material reality be respected ? What other language that suits someone’s belief about their identity has organisations stating they should be respected when those beliefs don’t have a foundation in material reality and the organisation is not a faith or political based one?

What should the punishment be if someone doesn’t use that demanded language and uses neutral language ?

I also work in a university with many foreign members of staff. Very few people have pronouns in their email signature. I frequently don't know whether I'm communicating with a man or a woman. Guess what? It doesn't matter as I either address them by name or the pronoun "you". If I meet them in person, it's pretty obvious which they are.

In my department of 23 people, only one person has pronouns in their signature. He is foreign (English) but has a name that is a male name in multiple languages so it's not helpful to anyone.

I have "you/your". Someone tried to complain but they are in fact pronouns and the correct ones to use when talking to someone.

If people choose to declare pronouns, for whatever reason, it should be respected.

If people choose not to, for whatever reason, it should also be respected.

Behaviour like OPs won’t get you respect in the workplace. On the contrary, you will prob sly be more likely to be sent to get the tea I would have thought.

Some people have gender neutral names and titles. I work in an academic institution, loads of people are Dr X, or their first name is not obviously gendered, or they have a foreign names that they can't readonably expect others to guess is male/female. Many of the academics from overseas appreciate thay everyone puts pronouns on their emails and profiles. I think it's prefectly reasonable to prompt someone to use the correct pronoun, and expect them to respect that. I wouldn't want to constantly be misgendered and have to correct people, would you?

As an aside, I would really like to know when adding phobic or phobia to the end of things became the norm?
a phobia is a irrational fear of something!
it doesn’t and has never been used to denote something you simply don’t believe in.
I don’t believe that humans can change sex , i certainly not irrationally afraid of them ( unlike spiders) 🤔🤷‍♀️

Really?

I can assure you that as a 50 something woman that’s had a career in a global but very male oriented industry where I’ve had to fight hard for anything like equal opportunities, I am certainly fuck this nonsense.

Must admit that menopause has not added to my patience quotient.

Maybe when you’ve been told to make the tea enough times you’ll understand.