Outrage As UK’s Citizens Advice Tells Staff To Wear Gender Pronoun Badges

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PRONOUN BADGES CITIZENS ADVICE

The UK’s Citizens Advice is facing a backlash from staff after they were instructed to wear gender pronoun badges.

The national charity, which has recieved £290 million of taxpayer money in the last two years, is being heavily relied upon for debt, energy bills and mortgage advice during the cost of living crisis.

But the organization now faces a revolt over its skewed priorities, after it was revealed that it had rolled out five transgender policy documents.

The Telegraph reports: Dame Clare Moriarty, its £170,000-a-year chief executive, told all staff last month that pronouns are “an important way of affirming their gender identity” and “we shouldn’t assume someone’s gender based on their appearance”.

Her internal memo on Citizens Advice’s intranet, seen by The Telegraph, added: “You can help to normalise sharing pronouns by sharing yours. We’ve created some button badges with different pronouns that can be fastened to a lanyard or your clothing.”

The charity has introduced the badges in national offices and via suppliers for regional teams, while its IT team has drawn up instructions on adding pronouns to email signatures.

Ms Moriarty directed all staff nationally to a “pronouns resource” by Citizens Advice Liverpool, which includes “Ze/Zir/Zirs” or “Ey/Em/Eirs” as gender-neutral examples.

The four-page guide says that “the pronouns used to refer to you are an extension of your name” and getting someone’s pronouns wrong is “misgendering”, meaning staff must “thank them for correcting you and let them know it won’t happen again”.

“If you realise you’ve misgendered someone, but haven’t been corrected, you should still correct yourself – they may not have felt comfortable correcting you themselves,” the Citizens Advice guide continues.

Staff are directed to contentious charities including Mermaids and Gendered Intelligence if they are worried about slipping up, and given extensive guidance on transitioning at work.

Staff ‘deeply unhappy’ about memo

A Citizens Advice benefits adviser, who received the memo, told The Telegraph: “I know many who are deeply unhappy with this kind of ideological instruction, especially at a time of economic crisis for our clients, which is what ought to be the priority for Citizens Advice.”

In another memo this year, the charity explained to staff on why it is a “trans-inclusive service”, saying it is “particularly important to be explicit” about this because of prejudice and harm faced by trans and non-binary communities.

It said that being trans-inclusive means that “as an organisation, we recognise that trans women are women, trans men are men and non-binary people are non-binary; we demonstrate this in the way we interact with colleagues and with clients”.

Staff were warned that “we do not accept trans-exclusionary language or behaviour at work”.

This has left gender-critical staff fearing reprisal for believing that trans women are not women, because they were born male. The charity declined to rule this out.

7 Comments

  1. Brits are a minority in their own cities. They can’t control their borders even though they are an island country! Brits are incompetent (woke) losers and have resorted to inflaming US politics and European conflicts.. The royals and their lackeys laugh all the way to the bank.

  2. There’s Male and Female, any other classification is a New Mental Illness that’s been concocted by elitists who want to destabilize, rule and control humanity as Master and Slave.

  3. They just go overboard with everything as extremists. Everything They swing from left to right like manic depressive mood swings. They probably as a “society” are.
    Drugs and chemicals and those ultra sounds are doing un natural things to foetuses and possibly causing babies to be confused. They wouldn’t tell if they knew.
    They love secrets.

  4. I am an autonomous human and as one, I will always assume gender based on appearance, I will never care about your lack of emotional intelligence that has led you down the path of pronouns.

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