I work in a university and it's welcome week. We've just had an email sent round the whole school to remind us how important it is to greet people in a friendly and courteous manner - including a reminder to include our pronouns when introducing ourselves and in our email profiles. I responded - just to the person who sent the email, not the whole school - about the issues around conscious/unconscious bias and stereotype threat when asking women to preface every conversation and emails with reminders that they are part of an oppressed group, and that whilst I understand these issues are tricky, we need to consider the whole community. It was very mild and polite and only to one person, but I'm still feeling anxious about having explicitly brought up gender critical issues at work. I'm waiting to see if I get a response ...