I'm not bothered what pronouns people use when discussing me or referring to me. They can choose whatever pronouns they like, good bad or indifferent.

If people want to put pronouns on their badge then fine, but it shouldn't be impossible to not put anything. Making it a mandatory step is not on.

I think this is a very, very pertinent point that is oven overlooked: that the vast, vast majority of people simply do not care. Yes, they would be very surprised if a native English speaker with good eyesight, who had seen them, got the basic, boring grammatical rules wrong; but ultimately, it's an absolute tedious non-issue.

It's the equivalent of being a 4yo who is invited to a big exciting party, and being given a badge with your name on it and a huge blank space next to it for you to draw your favourite dinosaur - which is extremely important for you to do (mummy will help you with the crayons if you ask her nicely), as if you don't do it, everybody else in attendance will have to spend the whole party not knowing your preference!

Said the poster who isn't at all goady and doesn't post a hell of a lot of posts every day.

Hakuna/matata

Just put she or a full stop …… it’s a conference. You’ll only be wearing it for days.

cool so you don’t mind , pick whatever you like then , literally doesn’t hurt you in the slightest.

Why should I? I'm not the one using it? I have NO preference, no whatever option I like. So again why should I?

The problem with quoting Yogyakarta principles is that a) to the average lay person they sound as silly and as made up as announcing pronouns and b) they still give credence to the concept of gender identity which is bullshit.

Let’s just not pander. Just put a full stop.

That’s like saying why Should you write your name if you’re not using it. It’s ticking a box, just tick whatever if you don’t mind how people refer to you, takes less than a second to tick the box then get on with your day . You must have not a lot going on for something you don’t care about to bother you this much- it’s a couple of words on a badge and a second of your life.

No.

I don't want to.

Those that do want to are free to do so.

But I say

NO

okay, have fun making a fuss for no reason at all

Do you always have such an issue accepting a woman's right to say no?

😂

It’s not making a fuss for no reason at all.
The use of pronouns indicates that you adhere to an harmful ideology and I don’t adhere to it. I think it’s all complete nonsense. So I won’t put my pronouns on any work signatures, conference badges, LinkedIn bios etc and I am always a little wary of people who compel others to do so. In my last team, at a very big and well known UK organisation, we got lectured in a meeting by an earnest 24 year old for not including our pronouns in our work signatures. How dare she!

It doesn’t harm you to have pronouns on your badge, it can harm other people to not have it on there’s.

I haven't included my pronouns in my email signature, and no one has ever got them wrong, commented on them, or let them affect any interaction.

People have much better things to do with their day. I usually leave it blank or say prefer not to say.

What pronouns people use for me is none of my business.

It doesn’t harm me? Yes, it does. It indicates that that person believes in a harmful ideology, an ideology that doesn’t care about women’s boundaries. The kind of person who feels strongly about pronouns is also the kind of person who will hurl abuse at women for not accepting men in their spaces (see the parkrun thread for examples).
It tells me that that person is an idiot or a sheep. Or even that they could be abusive.

So no, I absolutely will not put my pronouns on anything and I am wary of anyone who does.

People often get mine wrong if they've not met me as I have a man's name. Ask my patents why. And very occasionally people have looked genuinely confused when I introduce myself by my name because I'm 5' 5" with a big bust. Oh and I'm Dr so they can't tell what sex I am easily by checking my title

Somehow we all manage
I don't mind if people call me he despite being clearly a woman. But most people manage to work it out. And the one who really can't / aren't sure, it doesn't matter. Thankfully my Doctors and midwives etc are aware I'm female. My work colleague don't need to know.

What makes you think that?

I’m sorry that you’ve experienced abuse, that’s not okay. I’m not an idiot or a sheep, and I’m fine with putting my pronouns (which align with how I’m most likely to be perceived as and with my biological sex), because I know that others feel like this is important for them and they see it as a sign of respect to use the ones they know I am comfortable with.

It's really not a laughing matter.

Not speaking Maori, I had to make my best guess on placement of word breaks.

How did I do? [Image of translation attached, pending approval.]

And here we have the perfect answer to the original question. As it's a free text box, use it to inform people of your favourite dinosaur.

For those of you saying ‘just put it down, it doesn’t matter’ - it feels as weird and inappropriate as if there were a box on my name badge for religion - I could just write ‘atheist’ or ‘N/A’ - but why the fuck should I? Why would a work meeting need that to be displayed on my chest - irrelevant and inappropriate and intrusive.

I live in NZ and this looks like the longest name of a place.

There is even a song about it.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ouKNv7GN16I