Brighton and Hove Council introduce pronoun badges

This is so creepy as nauticant said and so wasteful of public funds. All about enforcing personal power and inappropriate attention seeking.

When you are working in a job supporting the public on behalf of your local authority with their needs at the forefront of your mind, surely their use of your preferred personal pronouns would be really be neither here nor there. You are there to do the job at hand. If you are that much of a delicate flower that if a service user gets the sex recognition cues that you present ‘wrong’ compared to your preference, this would seriously upend your sensibility, then maybe you are too delicate to work in a public- facing job.

You can’t control everyone’s else’s minds and perceptions of you. This is usually understood to be part and parcel of living life among other human beings.

I hope they're vegan, too.

I hope there is no plastic in these badges.

I should qualify.

I grew up in Brighton and love it.

It has been a beacon for tolerance for decades.

It just makes it susceptible to this sort of misguided cock-up which I think will be mopped up and ditched by the residents fairly quickly.

Local comments are all scathing.

I don't live there now.

Yikes! How would braille badges work?

People would have to rub them to read them.

And they would be attached to people.

Who might object to being rubbed!

I hope there is no plastic in these badges.

That would be very counter virtue.

I've got a badge with my chromosomes on. Can I wear that?

If you can be bothered I'd be very interested to learn if they do invent special terms

Trying to look it up but can't figure out what search terms to use (Finnish is hard :( ) - wouldn't ever come across it in the area I live, people are too sensible here!

This is why I'm so glad I live in Finland now, everyone is just 'hän', no preferred pronouns are possible. Well unless they make them up, which I suppose some probably do.

If you can be bothered I'd be very interested to learn if they do invent special terms.

Actually, how would this work if you’re gender-fluid? Multiple badges?

Hang on, not all languages use gendered pronouns. How will the special snowflakes translate their specialness?

This is why I'm so glad I live in Finland now, everyone is just 'hän', no preferred pronouns are possible. Well unless they make them up, which I suppose some probably do.

Hang on, not all languages use gendered pronouns. How will the special snowflakes translate their specialness?

I find the insistence that all of us have a "preferred pronoun" incredibly tedious. I don't even have a preferred name

This. I tell people they can call me whatever they want as long as it is not insulting.

What huge egos these people have

grasspigeons

I hope they are accesible badges. I look after a visually impaired person. Id hate them to not see the badge and make a mistake. I also assist refugees so I hope they are translated into many languages.

Absolutely. It's all about inclusivity. All the badges need to have been translated into braille, and as many languages as necessary.

In fact they will have to just dispense with the badges together, and wear high viz jackets so they can get it all on there.

Could only be Brighton. Precious beyond belief.

Vulva? Mumsnetters

B&H council are professional jump on bandwagonners. They've just had to backtrack on changing all the school holiday dates. They've caused chaos fort two years by shortening the summer and given random extra unwanted weeks elsewgere. They also have a supposed 75 million in cash and other reserves. So money no object.

I hope they are accesible badges. I look after a visually impaired person. Id hate them to not see the badge and make a mistake. I also assist refugees so I hope they are translated into many languages.

Christ on a cracker.

I don’t work for them but I am on working on site there occasionally. There is no way in hell I am wearing one.

I’m not on site for a couple of weeks but if anyone is interested I can report back.

Ovahere - that would be great idea.

I think I've had enough. I think I'm going to live on a desert island or something. Every. Single. Day. There is some new craziness.

I wonder what colors and shapes they will use for the different beliefs.

Perhaps we could spend Trans Visibility Day reminding all tweeters that not all women are transwomen.

Red

That's interesting. At least Canada changed the law re. pronouns with the C16 bollocks, but this is just been imposed with no legal changes at all.

The fine for misgendering is in NYC, from what have read. I don't quite understand how this can be done. At State level, certainly the law can be changed, but this change to freedom of speech at a municipal level? Also pondering..