I use they/them pronouns and I’ll be starting a new job (remotely) in a month. How have you all gone about bringing up your pronouns in meetings, to HR etc ? Were your coworkers accepting?

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As someone who does not identify as non-binary I can’t speak to bringing it up. I do have coworker who identifies as non-bi and they were met with positivity by my team. Ppl did assume their gender initially, but, as far as i know, after correcting my team everyone used their correct pronouns. Personally i have my pronouns, she/her in my resume and at the beginning of my Linkedin bio. I wish this practice was more normalized, it would take pressure off so many ppl.

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While I am in the same boat as BBDO and cannot exactly speak to this, many companies now automatically include pronouns in their email signatures. I think you might even be able to suggest making this company wide policy when you bring it up in HR, or at least include it in your own so if you’re meeting folks via email before you do so in person, you don’t have to have a conversation about it.

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