You whispering in the corner with your mate about the 'anti-lgbt' badges would constitute harassment so I'd make sure you don't do that.
The trouble here is that these badges have become a tool for harassment. Anyone who in someway singled themselves out by not wearing one, made themselves a target for comments and criticism in the past. This wasn't ok, and represented creating a situation where employees were actively unable to complain or exercise their own beliefs - and we aren't talking about raging homophobic 'flag shagging' 'gammon' or 'karen' Reform or Trump supporters here. In some cases this was left wing individuals who had a history of gay rights activism but saw problems with growing authoritarianism within their own movement and had been the victims of abuse for questioning what was happening.
These badges - rather than making things inclusive - we're used as a way of shutting down vulnerable individuals. Many lesbians went back in the closet. I've heard, personally, of minor acts of defiance within large law firms by women who fit into this category. They didn't feel able to challenge what management were doing.
So these badges, far from encouraging inclusion, were weaponised - sometimes against the very people they were supposed to show support for.
Unfortunately the problem was allies got carried away and the T decided to run roughshot over the LG and the B. Stonewall decided to lose its mind and ignored a huge percentage of its cohort because it knew better.
When you have the founders of Stonewall actively upping sticks and reforming another group citing homophobia at Stonewall you should have paused for thought.
The Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of sex identified the huge problem at the heart of this - if you replace sex with gender then homosexuals lose their legal protection. If you can see sex, you can't prevent abuse by heterosexual people forcing themselves into homosexual groups and demanding that their lady penises be tried (or it's discrimination) or that gay men embrace the vagina. This is regressive.
These badges were all about saying 'we follow Stonewall law' and trying to intimidate anyone who disagreed - including from the LGB community. These companies and organisations were telling employees - and are still telling employees - if you don't suck this up and you don't adhere to what we say we will take action against you and you with be social pariahs. We don't care about how this impacts you and we certainly don't care about your rights. The only 'rights' that matters are the ones that Stonewall got us to sign up to in our diversity programme.
The meaning of the rainbow badges was corrupted and changed by Stonewalls dominance and monopoly. This is now being exposed but unfortunately the damage has now been done and it's no longer a symbol of inclusion. It's a symbol associated with mens rights activism, homophobia and totalitarianism against free speech for many. It's not a symbol of neutrality and support and safety for LGBT people. It has a new layer of meaning and symbolism which is a political statement and no longer necessarily even 'belongs' to LGBT people. The irony is that many so called do gooder allies, were so radicalised by it that that bullied and silenced many gay people within the grassroots community. Heterosexuals colonised the flag.
When you have people into organisations getting upset that 'service users need the flag to know they are safe' or however the OP phrases it, you know you have a disconnect between the person saying this and actual service users. They can't possibly know how service users feel about the flag and it's totally ignorant about LGBT issues from the last five years. It says that those providing the service have lost touch with the community and only follow what the corporate policy is. It says that service provider think waving a flag is enough to demonstrate they are aware of issues and understand those using the service. It says they don't have the first fucking clue about how it actually impacts on the ground and the potential harm it does. Post Forstater it was tone deaf. Post Cass this is appalling. Post Supreme Court it's just fucking belligerent and a massive fuck you to women, children, those with complex needs like autism and to homosexuals.
If you can't grasp the last five to seven years of this and are still getting upset about a red bloody badge then frankly you shouldn't be dealing with the public and you need to actually get to grips with the concept that the LGBT community is not a blob of lemmings who all think the same way. Perhaps start treating your service users as individuals rather than acting like a sausage factory which puts everyone into nice little safe packages without ever making a connection with individuals and building up trust the old fashioned way.
Badges are a lazy, out dated, politicised, counter productive, diversive tool which are now doing far more harm than good and undermine inclusivity and make many feel excluded and isolated. They legitimise harassment and abuse.
They should go in the bin at this point.
And I question the judgement, awareness and impartiality of anyone still standing by them at this point.