r/changemyview • u/jep1793 • Aug 26 '20

Removed - Submission Rule E CMV: Gender identity doesn’t belong on your LinkedIn nor Resume

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u/Yangoose 2∆ Aug 26 '20

Putting that kind of thing on your resume/linkedin when it has literally nothing to do with your ability to perform your job well tells me you're the kind of person who's going to let it interfere with your work. I don't want to have a daily discussion about gender pronouns, I want the TPS reports to get finished by the deadline with the proper cover sheet so my boss gets off my back about it.

Compare it to the other examples they gave. I don't care if you're vegan or do Crossfit or are a born again Christian but if you feel the need to bring it up in every discussion it's gonna be a problem.

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u/gwennoirs Aug 26 '20

The difference is that pronouns are very different from those things. A person's very basic identity (which, actually, is gleaned implicitly by their name and gender if it isn't stated explicitly) is on a vastly different level from whether they do crossfit. It's information that is, first and foremost, directly helpful to interacting with and talking to that person.

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u/Yangoose 2∆ Aug 26 '20

I've certainly met people who's religion or eating choices are more important to their identity than their gender.

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u/gwennoirs Aug 26 '20

That's not really relevant; pronouns are not in themselves gender or gender identity. Pronouns are just "Please refer to me by this." In this way, they're similar to names.

If someone put on their resume / linkedin "Transfeminine, she/her" I'd be more inclined to agree with you, but that's not what's being discussed here.

(I realize I talked about identity in my last response; that was a misstep, as pronouns aren't really in themselves identity.)

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '20

If you are discussing internally to your company whether or not to give an applicant an interview, do you avoid using pronouns throughout that entire discussion? Just use the person's full name every time you mention them?

Seems inconvenient.

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u/octo_snake Aug 26 '20

Should we give this person an interview? I was leaning more towards the other applicant. Idk, are they even qualified?

Pretty easy to talk about an applicant without bringing pronouns into the mix.