at least it isn’t mandating you to introduce your pronouns

  • Tess@piefed.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    1 month ago

    I recently had to attend some course at work. Everyone was required to introduce themselves with their name and a single word that would describe them, starting with the first letter of their name. Like: “My name is Chris and I’m compassionate“
    Of course my name starts with a T 🤦‍♀️
    I was last in line and all I could think was “don’t say trans, don’t say trans”
    Ended up with something lame like “technical” 😒

    • TotallynotJessicaOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      1 month ago

      This sort of thing happened so much when I was closeted. Like I spent so much bandwidth trying to not just blurt out that I was a girl.

    • TotallynotJessicaOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 month ago

      Having to put your legal name on a form even though you publicly transitioned years ago and didn’t even use that name for most of your life.

  • Shirow@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 month ago

    I feel targeted 🫣 I have some ideas but I feel I’m missing something. Like there was a name I can’t remember from something I watched or read that influenced and would be right.

  • Truscape
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 month ago

    Man, even with u-substitution this would be rough to crack.