It’s Not OK to Police Co-Workers’ Pronouns
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Letters may be edited. Pronoun Protocols I work in a large data and analytics company. As a millennial, gay man, I welcome the use of identifying pronouns.
Our leadership remains largely white, cis, straight and male — and seeing “he/him/his” in their signatures does nothing to change that — but it is a gesture toward inclusion.Recently, however, I have been bothered by people who use pronouns to signal something other than their gender identities.
No one in our company openly mocks pronouns, but a cis, straight Hispanic female colleague offers that her pronouns are “She/Her/Ella.”“Offended” might be a strong word, but this bothers me.
