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Bank of England staff told to share pronouns and use ‘gender neutral’ language

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IwantToRetire · 01/09/2024 01:01

... “while fostering a sense of inclusion among employees is, of course, a worthwhile objective”, he believed that training courses like the one given to Bank staff are “ideologically driven”.

“As a result, they may have the unintended effect of fostering an intolerant workplace culture in which some employees feel they cannot express certain, perfectly legitimate points of view,” the letter said.

“Our primary concern is that the ‘Trans Inclusion’ course appears to promote gender identity ideology while stigmatising gender critical beliefs, which are <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.is/o/P9CHb/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/28/left-has-captured-language-of-political-debate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">protected under the Equality Act 2010.”
The FSU’s letter highlighted a part of the training that stated “using the wrong pronouns” is another example of a “microaggression”.

Full article in the Telegraph at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/31/bank-england-share-pronouns-woke-training-trans-rights-sex/

Can also be read in full at https://archive.is/P9CHb

I assumed this must be an old stories as I thought most institutions had given up on this nonsense. But appears to be recent'

Bank of England staff told to share pronouns and use ‘gender neutral’ language

Employees were instructed to use language such as ‘cisgender’ to refer to a person who identifies as sex they were assigned at birth

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/31/bank-england-share-pronouns-woke-training-trans-rights-sex

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lonelywater · 01/09/2024 01:16

think there will be an inevitable lag between established reality (i.e. protected beliefs enshrined in law) reaching the koolaid gang. These people have enough difficulty with reality at the best of times, the fact that the landscape has changed somewhat will be unwelcome and correspondingly resisted. Too bad-suck it up, fruitcakes.

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