At last I am properly part of this forum

[Gettingbysomehow]

I got asked this for the first time today. I was talking to the speak up guardian about a problem at work and was asked how I identify.
I said I am a woman, she said what are your pronouns???? I said I should think its pretty obvious if I identify as a woman unless she was trying to make me say cis which I will never say until Hell freezes over.

Keep strong! I don't recognise the term cis in the same way I don't recognise shiksa or kufr.

Women don't need to identify as one, we just are!

I’m a woman and if asked I’d say my pronouns were Sex Realist.

Most people can't manage to use my name in full nor spell it correctly yet want to bang on about pronouns!! I have a standard English name btw.

Well done except most of us don't "identify as" women, we just are.

Good on you for standing up for yourself and us!

I'm with @RandomMess on rarely being pronounced or spelled correctly but I do have the excuse of a strange foreign name.

Well done OP. Have to say I refuse to put my gender identity on forms because I don't have one.

Just answer “no thanks”. They won’t be able to work out if it’s a refusal or those are your pronouns

It's like asking a non American if they're democrat or republican, a non Muslim if they're Sunni or Shia. It's a belief system I don't subscribe to.

It certainly has echoes of the old “aye, but is he a Protestant Hindu or a Catholic Hindu?” @IcakethereforeIam

Guessing you are NHS then, so what has whatever concern you were being asked about/raised got to do with your birth sex, or hair colour or breast size, for that matter.

I would have said , i have no idea what you are talking about.

The FTSUG should not be asking you to declare allegiance to a political belief system. They are meant to be neutral.

Absolutely nothing to do with my problem whatsoever. They also asked about my sexuality. I said post menopausal. 😂