Just been told to remove my pronouns from my Teams profile

This bollocks right here is going to keep me snurking all day long. Funniest thing I'm likely to read this week.

A fella at work has his pronouns as His/Majesty.

I have an unusual name and often am referred to as "he" at work by people who have never seen me. I can't say it's ever bothered me. I know I'm female.

Having said that, I agree that what OP wrote would likely fall under bullying at my workplace and really isn't appropriate.

Afraid I’d be replying with - ‘on the basis that holding GC views is legally protected, I think I’ll leave them as they are, but please do feel free to offer counselling and support to the person who complained. It must be so difficult to navigate the world when humorously flippant comments cause psychological trauma.’

They totally deserve to be ridiculed. 🤣🤣

What about disabled employees? Are they allowed to signal their disability by use of special pronouns?

Diversity and inclusion seems to only apply to blokes wearing frocks. 😡

It’s just pronouns. I have a first name that is commonly a given name for both males and females. Having pronouns on my email or teams profile avoids confusion. There doesn’t have to be any “ideology” about it.

Hilarious OP. Replace it with 'real woman'.

As one of them, I couldn’t care less. If it mattered, I’d tell them. As it is, it’s obvious once we speak or meet. I’ve had some hilarious double-takes, as well as some outright honesty - which, TBH, is also hilarious.

OP: stay 💪 Not your problem if somebody is frightened because you don’t submit to their misogyny. Your right to unbelief is protected in law.

But language changes over time. There is no static language.

I haven't, I've already said I do not list my 'preferred' pronouns because I'm a woman so it's self explanatory.

Writing 'take a wild guess' under anything on a work profile is unprofessional, and the only reason people are pretending they don't see that is because which section it was written under.

I’ve been picked up on this twice which is fair. I hesitated over it as I was typing at speed. I’m trying to consider than someone who has gone through surgery and is legally now ‘recorded’ as female on documentation etc would be (clumsy word) genuinely trans.

I agree that their fundamental biology hasn’t changed and cannot change. I didn’t mean ‘genuinely trans’ indicated that it had.

My personal view is that calling trans women ‘trans women’ is fine and we shouldn’t have to call them ‘women’ but there are so many pitfalls in this discussion that I will paint myself into a corner that doesn’t represent my actual thoughts.

I still feel that OP’s choice of words was antagonistic.

Absolutely agree.

I strongly disagree. You can have an opinion, but you can’t go around harassing people that share a different viewpoint.

I'm often misgendered because people think my unusual name is a man's name. I can't say it upsets me. In fact, in my previous job, I used to prefer it if our suppliers assumed I was a man - they were less likely to fob me off then. I did laugh though, when one of them referred to me as my boss's "young lad". I was in my mid-thirties at the time (and pregnant).

I work for a university now and wouldn't dare to do what OP did, but sometimes it is tempting.

But that’s the issue, isn’t it?
One could also question why telling people how they should perceive you (ignoring the evidence of their own eyes) is considered professional and something that needs to be declared at a workplace.
Gender ideology is a belief system and not everyone is buying into it.

As others have said, individuals demanding that specific pronouns be used when referring to them are the ones not separating their personal views from being professional at work.

I am 65. For over 40 years, married or single, my preferred title is Ms.
Very frequently, I am addressed as Miss or Mrs.
Sometimes people actually ask "is it Miss or Mrs?" and I have to clarify.
More than 40 years. I'm sure that other people can cope with some mistakes or misjudgement about their pronouns.

I have one of these names you are talking about- zero issues with anyone knowing I’m the female one.

If there was, I’d politely enquire is that Alexander or Alexandra I’m speaking with?

Tell him it was a protest against workplace misogyny where many unknowingly or knowingly discriminate against female employees.

I’m not surprised, OP. I shat my pants just reading that.

This thread is proof that pronoun people have had a collective sense of humour bypass.

But that's not a question of preferred pronouns . I received an email from a bloke called Wendy ( he came from somewhere in Africa) which had as the signature "Mr Wendy Name" to prevent obvious confusion.

What’s antagonistic is to have fully grown middle aged men stomping about in black mini dresses and tights in the City and expecting to be treated like a special kind of woman in the workplace. It’s bloody insulting.

However I think there are fewer of them now than a couple of years ago. Maybe it was all simply too much trouble.

A professional environment has no room for humour [stern face, waggy finger].