To be shocked to see my (female) friend described as “they” on her work website?

[CandidMoss]

I was looking at a friend’s company website and noticed she’s now listed as “they/them.” It really surprised me, I’ve only ever known her to use “she” and she’s never mentioned anything about changing pronouns.

Not sure if it’s a mistake, a work policy or a personal shift she hasn’t shared. AIBU to feel a bit blindsided? Or is it none of my business?

What a weird way of gaslighting and blaming the OP for noticing something. It's her friend. Why wouldn't you take an interest in your friend and her work?
And she already answered that she was applying for a job with the company and looking and their site (probably for prep for the interview), way before you posted, if you had actually RTFT before posting.

'They/Them' is neutral, not 'transitioning', and no, they don't automatically deserve support because they want to pretend they're something other than they are.

OP why didn’t you ask your friend rather than posting here?

Even the French have iel! (Pronounced ‘yell’)

Why is it necessary? Pronouns are sex-based. We can tell what sex a person is. Therefore we can tell what pronouns a person is.

No one has a 'preferred' pronoun. Our 'pronouns' are decided at conception when the sperm enters the ova. Pronouns are sex-based. We don't have a choice in what our pronouns are.

Anti trans? 🙄No, PRO-WOMEN. But of course misogynists who are anti-women will claim feminism is anti-trans. What you really want to say is anti-men.

There is no such sex as 'they/them'. There is only male or female. Nothing else.

There is no such sex therefore no such sex pronoun as 'they'.

Lol, you're trying convince yourself. We all know. Height. Voice. Gait. Lack of hips. Hand size and feet size. None of those change via surgery.

Definition of male and female and therefore sexed pronouns never change.

And going on about "long waffling paragraphs" isn't a personal insult? She just responded to you in kind.

Nothing surprises me these days. More and more people are showing themselves as being bonkers.

RTFT, she explained why long ago in the thread.

None of us have ever hid why we disagree with pronoun use. Ever.

Sex is real. Gender is not real and is made up by misogynistic men.

That's all there is to it. No one needs to desperately refer to AI to know that. We know it in primary school.

How is "they" sex based ?

Pronouns are just words. I can call myself whatever I want at the end of the day. I'm female and use she but I could even make up my own unique pronoun if I wanted.

No, someone could write a long waffling article that I don't like, it's not personal to the person that wrote it

You have obviously never seen any documentaries. These are people that have taken hormones over many years as well as having surgery. You really wouldn't know.

That's the whole point! It isn't. It's not a pronoun.

You realise videos can be edited? The amount of videos that have been caught out for being edited frame by frame and altering the look of the people in it is amazing. You are so naive. And hormones do one fifth of fuck all. They don't alter your bone structure. They don't shorten your limbs. They don't, most noticeably, alter your gait. They don't alter your hand size. They don't alter your shoe size. They don't alter your voice. They don't alter your height. They don't alter your larger heart and lung capacity. They may stop you growing facial hair, but that is all they do. They do fuck all in truth and reality.

Your paranoid. It was a bbc documentary I saw most recently.

BBC! pmsl. Yes, that proves my point.

Get a grip 🙄