I’ve just started to put my pronouns in my email signature and it sparked a great discussion with members of our team regarding the importance of making it a regular thing for everyone. :)

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Good for you! I find myself trying not to assume the gender of someone being mentioned in an email, especially if they have a name I am not familiar with. Instead of saying “I will send her the information”, I will write “I will send Kalilkanam the information.” Even with “normal” names I do that too, more often “I will send Thomas the info”. However, we have to remember that at least 50% of the firm is very conservative. Are you, OP, LGBT or are you an ally? Just wondering.

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@ EY 2 I would consider myself part of the LGBT community. While I am a cisgender male, I am fortunate to work in a fairly liberal market where I don’t imagine seeing myself receiving backlash.

And while I definitely agree the overall composition of the firm is conservative — if I were to receive backlash, I would think my choice to include this information would align with most firms’ messages regarding inclusion.

I actually find the way you address others in your emails to be very safe and respectful and will consider doing the same myself. Now that I think about this, I actually already do, unintentionally, refer to people by name most of the time — but moreso for specificity reasons. However, I can definitely see it being beneficial from an inclusion perspective.

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Same! I’ve had a couple people reach out and ask me why I had it in there. I think the firm should make it part of the “email signature generator” and official signature guidance

What s cisgender? Also, OP, how exactly do you do that? Please give e ample for say John Doe who self-identifies as male?

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- cisgender=assigned the correct gender at birth.
- example for signature block “John Doe (he/him)"

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