We've had the inevitable pronouns email at work...

[OgdensGoneNutFlake]

As above, I've had the virtue-signalling pronouns email at work. It's optional to put your preferred pronouns (which is the option I will be taking) but its the sort of environment that it will be noticed, and possibly commented on.

There was a thread a while back I can't seem to find that had short, non-inflamatory replies for why I won't be adding my he/she/zom/zur/zee's after my name- can anyone point me in the right direction of it? Or give me some safe-for-work replies to disengage from the conversation. I've only been there a few months and I don't really have the energy to be fighting battles with people who won't be listening anyway.

Greenfairydust · Yesterday 22:08

In the end with most workplaces you need to live your personal politics and beliefs at the door.

If the workplace is imposing theirs on you, why should you?

@DeadOrchid

Those are a crime against any kind of aesthetic standard - & a nightmare for VI people & those with some neuro issues.

Patients are not there to validate HCPs’ life choices FFS. If I’m admitted with my brain misbehaving I quite literally will not have the capacity to politely join in with a game of Pretend. Not when I’m putting together phrases by jumbling together languages & pointing at stuff; & The Brain-Woggle basically removes all filters & constraint of social niceties. It’s a bit (complete to frustration over lack vocabulary) like being a toddler really I suppose: unflinching honesty; & random things seem fascinating &/or important. So if someone were to try to tell me I was expected to refer to someone even my addled wits could spot was male as “she” & “her”, I would want to know why. And would then almost certainly refuse to do it because it was asking me to tell a lie; & that [lying] is not a request they’d make twice 😶