Line Manager just "come out" as Non-binary

I wish I was interesting, but I’ll be non-binary instead. It’s easier.

This thread seems to have just made a blink and you'll miss it appearance in Trending. Are popular FWR threads being somehow manually removed?

Email your managers and say you now identify as a banana.

Refer to her as ‘it’.

OP I'm furious on your behalf just reading this! What an absolute load of self obsessed shite!!
I would also call this person by their name at all times or not speak to them at all if I could get away with it.
How dare anyone feel entitled to make others perform mental gymnastics for a simple conversation or email!! 😡

I don't see a problem with addressing people how they like to be addressed (within reason). If someone prefers to be called Andy rather than Andrew or katherine rather than Kathy why wouldn't you respect that? I think it's the same with pronouns. There are more important things to argue about, pick your battles.

I'd just flat out refuse. There is no way I would let someone dictate me like that.

Maybe you could reply.
"I apologise for the mistake. I would also like to confirm what I would like to be called. I am going through a difficult period and would like to be known as:
He on Mondays
Them on Tuesdays
Mummy Bear on Wednesdays
Ti on Thursdays
and She on Friday morning and ehs on Friday afternoons.
If you wish to contact me over the weekend please note I only answer to Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
However on dates which are prime numbers please simply address me as Sir.
Thanks."

Non-binary could refer to most people surely, particularly those who identify as feminist?

^^this is what I think. They/them is bollocks though, not least because of its grammatical inaccuracy. But I do not identify with all those ridiculous female gender stereotypes shudder. I am quite clearly a female though 🤷🏻‍♀️

I would genuinely do what @wibdib suggests.

Make the whole email sound like a long siiiiigggghhh so everyone - including her(they) - know's how fucking tedious you find her(they).

I'm having so much fun with this.

You could say at the end of your message, "from one non binary person to another, please accept my sincere apology for inadvertently using your previous pronoun of "she". We are all learning and I will try harder to do better."

This is a typical wokesorry so again she can't accuse you of being a terf - you're using the cult's phraseology.

Sorry if this offends anyone but its bullshit and makes no grammatical sense

I would respect their preferred pronouns.

I wouldn't say you are experiencing cognitive dissonance. They would say that was denying the existence of trans or some bullshit. Under this cult it is verboten to admit any cognitive dissonance.

Imagine if anyone said that to Hayden. you'd be facing a writ before you knew it.

I agree you should add the sincere apology with all the details about how hard it is, as that will give permission to the office, from you, as a valid non-binary identity, to find it difficult to change words.

I’ve grown to love the clunkiness of using an actual name every time, especially third person singular. I demand you all call me Betty/Betty/Bettyself from here on in.

Non binary, what a load of bloody nonsense.

If you don’t decide to identify as nb (genius suggestion!) I would just send a very bland apology to say that you’re sorry; that this is very new to you and that you’re finding it very difficult to remember to go against the grain of a lifetime of using ‘they’ grammatically correctly not to mention autocorrect helpfully correcting it when it means the sentence is wrong grammatically. That will you will do your best but you expect it will take time to overcome such a basic and embedded speech pattern but that you mean no disrespect and that you are she is understands the cognitive dissonance problems that this is causing you.

Then just drop they in once in a while and carry on regardless...

I firmly believe that every one is non-binary. Because no one is 100% feminine or 100% masculine.

Also non-binary refers almost specifically to sex, there are over 70 genders after all.

Perhaps you could go for xe/xer/xhe?

Maybe you could encourage colleagues to choose unique pronouns too?

god how embarrassing for her.
If its your actual manager, then I guess youve got to go along with their charade until she hopefully grows out of it.
Id just use her name though

actually that 's quite funny because Boy George recently tweeted:

"leave your pronouns at the door"

now there's a chap who understands the difference between sex and gender

Hahaha that’s brilliant. You have to send that, OP.

Leave your politics and the door

it's not political to adhere to biological facts