Pronouns at work - help

This is the best response I've seen..

I'm ignoring it. If pressed, I will say, I do not follow that practice. If compelled, I will tell them I will do it, once the Gender Pay Gap is closed and I will not be disadvantaged by announcing my gender.

The comments are epic though

The ridiculous thing is that you only need to know a pronoun if you're referring to someone when they are not there. If you're emailing them then you don't need the fucking pronoun!

Times pronoun article
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/b9327b7a-90d1-11ec-ba83-35d92f80c266?shareToken=17ee1fb7e30ff01fd4f0b1667591aa1e

I was going to suggest exactly what @ConfusingWorld said. Considering this is all supposed to be about equality then making your case for your own ability to work in the most equal way possible within the patriarchy is something I don't think they can easily argue with.

Our official work signature has pronouns now. I just deleted that line when I used it (and I'm not the only one). No one has commented on it. I expect it'll be the same for you OP. I suspect that those of us who think this is all bonkers are actually in the quiet majority...

The reason I chose the phrases "uncomfortable outing myself"

I also took this to sound like outing oneself as trans, but actually meaning outing oneself as GC.

I work for an incredibly conservative (small and big C) org. The bad thing is they are about 20 years behind the curve. The great thing is that they are about 20 years behind the curve.

Im hoping that we’ll miss this entirely.

Lots of tongue in cheek answers here. But it is a serious business. To require you to do this is to compel your agreement. It is coercive. We all have to make a living, but this isn't the small thing that it is made out to be.

Being a bit flippant here, but I'd be tempted to say that your pronouns are so special that you're only allowed to disclose them in non visible ink. You could say you have a non visible flag too.

The reason I chose the phrases "uncomfortable outing myself" and "the way I relate to my physical body is a personal matter" is because I don't believe in gender, and I'm not comfortable being outed as gender critical in a Stonewall associated organisation. It's not safe.

If they take it as meaning I believe their nonsense, that's their mistake.

My workplace recently introduced the option of adding pronouns to the email signature, but one of the options you can choose from the drop down menu of (many) choices is 'no pronouns/use my name'. Could that be a way round it?

Nhs want us to do the same. Also encouraging to wear a badge. I hate badges as forget to take them off and they hang funny. Why do I need a badge or email signature to 'prove' I am completed cool with what ever anyone else wants to be called or known as. This from the nhs makes me laugh....

"If you see someone wearing a rainbow badge
If you see one of our staff wearing a rainbow badge, they have made an informed choice to do so. This means you can be sure they are a friendly ear, willing to listen without judgment and will know how to signpost to the support available. So please don’t be afraid to talk to them"
What if someone forgets to wear their badge? Or chooses not to? Are they an unfriendly nasty judgemental bastard? The world has gone mad.

*-emptily

(Though it made me laugh!)

I actually think it’s ridiculous everyone is pussy-footing around this. It’s already been made clear employers are not able to force this. It’s in law. If women stopped trying to be so meek and nice then maybe we would actually get somewhere.

Be honest. You don’t agree with gender ideology and you’d like to know why your boss thinks this is emptily appropriate in the work place.

Rinse and repeat.

Yes indeed, for anyone to be non binary they need to rigidly enforce the binary on most other people, otherwise there is nothing to be 'non'

I once calmly explained to a crack pot TRA that all GC feminists are non binary on the barbie to GI Joe scale. Funnily enough his 'acceptance without exception' creed stopped short at a boring 40 year old mother self IDing

non binary - it's gender critical with a flag.

I don't see it that way. I think that not fitting neatly into a gender stereotype box isn't non-binary - it's just human. Calling yourself non-binary says that you think everyone else fits in gender boxes.

It's the first step to tervedom

Employees can say what they want (within reason) on their personal email or social media, but not at work. If flying flags or distributing leaflets or making people say how they vote at work is too political, I don’t see why putting pronouns on work emails is any different. Employers can’t force anyone to do it.
I also think adding pronouns by choice which some of my colleagues seem to be allowed to do, isn't OK. Nobody wants to tackle it even though we have a Style Guide and it specifies exactly what our email signatures have to look like

Ha, yes me too! I was heartened today to hear a group of young teenage girls on the bus scoffing and generally eye rolling about the idea of non binary people.

Ah, now I've got a bit of a soft spot for non binary - it's gender critical with a flag.

I'm with @ConfusingWorld and this is the approach i've taken with my company (we are not at the compulsory pronoun stage)
It helps here because we have an initiative within the company to improve the ratio of women in the higher echelons having discovered that 65% of the company are women, but only 15% of partners. This has played into my hand, somewhat.

We'll see what happens if they decide to make it compulsory. I rather suspect it will be the hill i die on.

OP, this is a good resource womansplaceuk.org/2021/06/27/share-pronouns-at-work/