Just been told to remove my pronouns from my Teams profile

[Horrace]

I'm weak 🤣
My manager just phoned me to say there has been some serious complaints made about me that he must urgently address.
I panicked.
In the Pronouns section of my Teams profile, I have

'Take a Wild Guess'

Its been there for a few years. Its finally been noticed and I've been told to take it down because it's made someone or more than one possibly, FEARFUL of me.

I meant to be antagonising. Or at least pointing out the ludicrous views that my employer is trying to push on it's employees and woe betide anyone that that has a personal opinion that differs to them.

‘Have a wild guess”. You could be someone who changes their presentation from day to day, and you never know in which identity you will wake up. Your interlocutors will have to take a wild guess depending upon whether Horresse is wearing pink leggings with ‘her’ blonde hair flopping loose, or whether Horace is wearing black formal robe with ‘his’ blond hair slicked neatly back into a pony tail.

😅

Of course it does. No one cares about your unisex name. People have had unisex names for centuries.

This is 100% about the normalisation of the distortion of language to shore up gender ideology.

That cracked me up OP 😂 glad some people still have a sense of humour.

It is a very unprofessional thing to have in your profile.

Confusion over what?

Nobody cares mate.

I don't understand.

Yawn

Pronouns were never professional and never about DIE. It was a bully boy tatict by transactivists to force people to be seen to comply.

It has been proven over and over that it disadvantaged women when the focus is on their sex lady brain rather than their job function.

And it was and still is also a realllllly fuuuuckn stupid idea for a HR professional to suggest their organisation to provide documented proof which can be used against themselves in a HR dispute.

There are lots of us working in Education where this anti-scientific nonsense has taken hold. I'm guessing you're NHS.

It's not inclusive - it erases women. I've had an 'inclusive' colleague correct my English with regard to pronouns for an individual who had left our workplace and was no longer a colleague. Bonkers.

I told my HE line manager if we were forced to add pronouns I was going with HRH/YRH, he laughed and said he very much hoped we wouldn’t be, and we haven’t been.

I think it’s quite childish & unprofessional. I wouldn’t be happy if one of my team did that.

This 🤣🤣

If I were Alex from accounts and someone was talking about me without me being present and without them knowing whether I’m a man or a woman, it wouldn’t bother me if they accidentally used the incorrect pronouns.
If they were talking about me with me being present they would be perfectly capable to correctly establish that I’m a woman.

Also, you should never, ever force people to "out" themselves.
Insisting on pronouns does just that.

Ridiculing others. Do you think that's a bit of a reach? Are we not having transphobic bigot as well?

I’m quite happy for people to assume I’m male for work purposes. You do get treated differently in some industries.

The only time it was an issue was when I arrived at a remote work site and they were expecting a bloke. One hasty reshuffle later I got my own en suite single cabin.

Laughing at other people’s nonsense isn’t harassment. And anyone who publicly displays their adherence to a sexist, homophobic, child-abusing ideology at the workplace is frankly lucky to only get laughed at.

Presumably the PP doesn't like being referred to as a man when she's a woman. Saves having to correct every person who has made an assumption based on her name.

I personally would be annoyed if everyone referred to me as he/him in emails because they'd not met me in person or spoken to me on the phone.

Not necessarily slowly or organically..What about all the new words in OED every year. They are not evolved particularly slowly or organically. And the other stuff you said. That's such a generalisation as to be meaningless. I mean, come on. ALL trans people are those things ? Surely not. That's silly..

I work in 'the city' (which I assume is London) and have done for many years in a number of different organisations. i have never seen grown middle age men stomping about in black mini dresses expecting to be treated like a woman, either in the workplace or elsewhere. I did, years ago, work with one transgender who was very nice, reasonable and did not demand anything. They also used the disabled toilet so as not to 'offend' anyone. As a very senior manager i have dealt with my fair share of stomping men, but none of them wearing tights.

The existence of that section is unprofessional.

Tell me which other acts of religious observance do these so called professional environments request their staff to preform? And how does that request fit on with a diverse and inclusive environment?

I know I don’t want to be referred to ‘cis’. I’d take an incorrect assumption over that. Not that it’s ever happened.