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Emily Hancock's avatar

I wonder how this will play out in industry and organizations (timely as we watched one of the original founders of La Leche League resign over the international breastfeeding support group’s kowtowing to males desires to breastfeed this past week)? Will the policy changes within these organizations and companies stand or just rot away as they realize they are “laggards” (what a word, btw!)?

I work at a large hospital system that is affiliated with an Ivy League medical school and I have to say that it feels the culture of transgender ideology is trickling downstream to how we operate more and more. I work on a mother baby floor as a nurse and even our charting systems have changed the word “breastmilk” to “human milk” where we got to chart a baby’s feeds. The resident doctors wear lanyards with the trans flag on it that hold their credentials. Managers have adopted “parent” instead of mother when leading meetings. When patients are admitted, there is a gender tab to fill out that literally has an “organ inventory” to fill out so we know what bits have been lopped off or not. I have all the hope in the world that the language of transgenderism will lag away into the ether but witnessing these things in a line of work that is specifically in service of women and babies is especially discouraging.

That all said, I do think the medical field is bound to be a laggard as this is the field that is profiting the most off of it. In addition to this, there seems to be a strange Stockholm Syndrome-esque affinity that many, many women who work in birth work and lactation support have for the cause.

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Larissa M's avatar

Won’t go into detail because I think this might technically be a crime, but: I know or know of multiple self-described liberal/Democratic people who are in positions of hiring, either as recruiters or senior managers etc, different industries, who have told me privately they immediately throw away resumes that have pronouns listed. I think they regard it as a red flag that the job candidate may cause problems or be difficult to work with, like instead of coming to work and doing the job they might try to subject the office to some weird moral reformation project and just be a lot of drama. It’s interesting because when I was a consultant for a well-known software consultancy a few years ago, we were strongly encouraged (basically required) to include pronouns in our email signature. This is all anecdotal obviously, but it makes me wonder how much under-the-surface shifting of attitudes has already been going on.

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