Pronouns campaign being launched at work

[PronounsAtWork]

I found out after the break that this is going ahead, although I don't know when I imagine it will probably be next month considering it's LGBTQ+ history month. I guess it means putting pronouns in our email signatures but probably with rainbow lanyards and the like as well. I've been stewing on whether to contact the DEI bod, especially how this campaign stands alongside the Supreme Court judgment. I'm just wondering if you wonderful women have any guidance for me at all?

I do find I am naturally removing sexed references from
my language at work - it’s not often I need to use pronouns for anyone in an email tbh, and I use ‘hi all’ or ‘hello team’ as collective references. ‘Sam has been contributing to this project and can update you at the meeting. I look forward to seeing Sam and everyone at the away day’ works fine.

Exactly. All those snowflakes on Reddit etc complaining about being “misgendered”. As you say, they must have bigger problems than they realise. Or, conversely, not many problems at all if that’s the most important thing in their lives don’t you think?

Nobody has pronounced my name (first and last) correctly for a good 25 years. Even people who can say my name correctly, mispronounce it when they talk about me because otherwise other people don't know they are talking about me. It's really not worth everyone's time me trying to teach people how to say it, half of the allocated time of a meeting would be gone before we all give up.

Exactly! People trip over themselves to do The Right Thing without actually thinking about it.

It's interesting that so many people on this thread love this option, when usually regular contributors to this board insist that they refuse to lie/have their children lie by using a trans person's new name or chosen pronouns.

Apparently honesty is only important in one direction.

"I'm not comfortable talking about my gender identity" or "my gender identity is private" would also suffice, without being untrue.

Nah, you don't owe a bigoted bully trying to coerce you into a quasi religious purity test- which is precisely what the pronoun police are - a single solitary sentence about your life, beliefs or anything else at all. You owe yourself protection from any nosy coercive bigot who's asking you ridiculous questions.

And only you decide if you will share anything personal about yourself with bigoted coercive bullies - or anybody else at all for that matter in a workplace particularly when THEY approach YOU with stupid requests, demands and coercive bigotry.

Don't be fucking ridiculous.

Exactly. I've not yet been asked/told to add the pronoun signature yet, but if I am, I'll respond with integrity and self-respect.

Lies all round. It would be do much easier if we simply weren't put in these situations by the MRAs.

I am wrestling with my gender, so it would be accurate, and also nobodies business.

If anyone can read this and not understand how being a female hasn't caused me to have a challenging emotional relationship with my sexed body then they're incredibly dense. I'd love to know what parts of this can men actually identify with? My experience of womanhood isn't about femininity. It's about being a woman and all the risks, pain and joy that brings with it.

Many times this.

That Spectator article is fab!

Archive link here

https://archive.ph/Sx01L

I am on a long and difficult journey with my (lack of) gender identity, specifically a journey towards getting it ignored in law and policy and my sex recognised in its place.

I think anecdotally there’s a push to double down to combat perceived losses from SC judgment, sport changes etc. If they’ve just joined the SW programme that’s probably coming from the top.

Why should she put her “preferred pronouns”? It’s just bollocks.

I don't find that objecting to the concept of compelled stating of pronouns takes up much energy tbh. Knowing that men are men and women are women is something that human beings have done automatically since the dawn of human existence without the need to expend extra energy on it.

My pronouns: arenot / yourproblem

Ah yes, live and let live, except those people who don't like to be forced to state their pronouns, those people I will tell how to live their lives.

Amusing indication of limited thinking when putting a lable in the email would be the OP dictating how others should be allowed to live their lives 🙄

Wouldn't you just refer to them by their name in emails?

Likewise. You know there are more edifying hobbies than goading women on a feminist board?

And babes, I can oppose the absurdity of gender identity ideology in my sleep, but sincerest thanks for your concern 🙏