Work intranet - Trans week of awareness

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This has been noticeably more low key this year at my workplace (public sector). There has been a blog from the LGBT+ network, but not much stuff on the wider work intranet as there has been in previous years.

This feels more appropriate to me. It is something that a staff network might want to mark, but I don't think it should get more intranet coverage than say carers' week or learning disability week.

Has anyone else noticed this trend in their workplace?

Is it this week?

Our network is much quieter than it used to be. I remember one year when they were handing out badges & expecting people to write their pronouns.
I made sure I was WFH on that day.

Glad to hear this. It’s defo dying a death.

No corporate logos in the background at Trans in the City event:

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I've seen nothing about this on our staff intranet so far. That's definitely a change from recent years. Fewer pronouns in email signatures too. The tide is slowly turning

Yes, I didn't realise it was until I saw the blog from the LGBT network. This was in the blogs section, not on the main intranet as in previous years, when a big song and dance was made about it. I'm sure there has been lots of teeth gnashing from the usual TRAs that there hasn't been more of a fuss this year. One of them moaned during pride month that there weren't enough events celebrating trans people (even though there were quite a few trans-focussed ones).

Interesting

Not where I am. Also public sector. Trans day of remembrance vigil in the afternoon

Well that was well planned.

How did they handle international mens day this week?

This Facebook post, and from such a STEM based uni…

I hadn't even clocked that was today. Just checked and nothing on our Intranet, which has surprised me!

It does seem to be getting less and less coverage in my work.
Even our resident non-binary colleague seems to forget to shoehorn in her pronouns into her monologues now.

Yep same here thank goodness. Fed up of this nonsense

Absolutely nothing from what I can see in my usually v. v. devout public sector org.

The intranet is promoting Carers Rights Day and Self Care Week so they're still putting things up in general.

I've noticed a drop in pronouns-in-sig as well this last year.

Nothing at all on my intranet either.

Nothing on my intranet 😁

Definitely seems more low key this year then, and not just in my workplace

This is quite irritating to read considering I feel like my company is heading in the opposite direction!

We've had the usual suspects pop up now and again but we’re all professionals and I feel the trans issue would not gather much support in my industry.

But the wider company seem to be pushing it more than ever. We were forcefully reminded of a “gender talk” recently at the end of a group-wide meeting and I feel like I’m seeing many more pronouns in signatures these days.

Comments made on the post advertising the talk include the resident office TRA hoping that “progress” had been made since the last meeting and after the talk a woman claimed it was the most interesting she had ever been to, and aren’t you all so brave.

We also have a man who looks like he’s pushing 60 who has uploaded his teams image with an image of himself as his drag persona, laid spread eagle on the floor. He seems to have made himself transvisible in many stock images plastered all over the intranet, showing off his long painted nails.

I work in financial services and it feels like we have been heading backwards ever since the Supreme Court ruling, ironically.

Would you consider making contact with SEEN in the City? You might find support and they might be gratefu for your intel.

seeninthecity.org

"We also have a man who looks like he’s pushing 60 who has uploaded his teams image with an image of himself as his drag persona, laid spread eagle on the floor."

Annnddd... that's how we know who the men are.

A woman doing this would be accused of mixing up her work account with her Only Fans. People would think she was insane.

It's the revelling in boundary pushing - which would have a huge social cost for any woman doing the same thing - that makes me angry. The GI movement is all about reducing the social cost of this behaviour for men and turning it into social capital.

"We also have a man who looks like he’s pushing 60 who has uploaded his teams image with an image of himself as his drag persona, laid spread eagle on the floor."
Annnddd... that's how we know who the men are'

Well, indeed. How utterly revolting. This kind of thing is enabled by the 'bring your whole self to work' bullshit that's been all over the corporate world for the last few years. Only the right kind of 'self' though - none of your nasty genocidal gender critical bigotry 🙄

Didn't spot anything from my v.v. right-on public sector employer.

There was a blog on male mental health for International Men's Day, and we had several blogs for Black History Month, so no interruption to normal service.

I seem to sense a reduction in pronouns in signatures. It was slightly jarring on a recent group Teams call when the presenter introduced herself as "my name is XY and my pronouns are she/her", because it had been a while since I'd heard that.