That's good @Lins77 ; it's a bit mad in our organisation right now. I've noticed it ramping up big style in the past few years, coincidentally (!?) since the head of EDI joined the organisation.
I think it's taken me by surprise as I'd always thought of my work colleagues as fairly sensible people. To be fair, most of the no nonsense people who've been there for years haven't changed their signatures to include pronouns or haven't taken the new progress pride lanyard that marketing keep handing to folk whenever in the office. There's a hell of a lot who have though and also a lot of young graduates as well. I think because it's so rife in universities and our organisation has a lot of partnership with universities it's kind of a given. Plus, as I said, the head of EDI being so full on with it all.
I was a bit disappointed though last week when I went into the office after a few weeks of holidays and a lot of my team have taken the lanyard. I probably should have expected it as my team is heavy with the pronouns but I'd hoped that was just a kind of unthinking adherence to the constant pressure to change email signature from marketing. I actually find it quite intimidating seeing the progress pride lanyard. I find it quite anti-gay; my lesbian friends hate that flag and I've been spat on going to a women's festival by people waving the flag.
Now I have to sit and stare at it in meetings round all my teammates' necks. Maybe I should pull a TRA move and say I feel "unsafe" and demand a support animal. Ha. It's just galling as I think it's a bit political and we should just be neutral as a public sector organisation and keep to a generic neutral staff lanyard. For example, I don't see marketing handing out any lanyards for disability awareness, women's rights, carers rights or age awareness etc. So why the focus on just that one?