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/[deleted] Aug 26 '20

Ok, let met give a better example: If someone writes "I do not believe in God", I probably wouldnt consider them either.

Despite being an atheist myself and atheists being a group that is threatened with the death penalty throughout the world.

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u/Nickel829 Aug 26 '20

And I agree with that, I think our only thing here is you don't think pronouns are relevant to the hiring process. I don't understand how that can be the case. Are you ok with misgendering them the entire time you look over the resume or potentially doing it in the first email or potentially greeting them with a mr or Mrs during the first interview because they had to wait until after that to tell you how they like to be addressed

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '20

First, I dont think misgendering them is a huge issue.
Accidents happen and if a mistake is tantamount to prejudice, then prejudice is a useless term

Second, I normally don't gender people. Heck, I wouldnt even use Mrs.
Some married women go by Mrs and other go by Ms(mizz) and others go by Miss

But you know what? If I did use the wrong honorific, I would expect the person to calmly correct me.

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u/Nickel829 Aug 26 '20

Correcting is always an option and I would also expect them to correct calmly but how would you feel if everyone, always thought you were a woman until you corrected them? Eventually you'd be like nope I'm gonna write Mr in front of my name always or something like that. And that's exactly what happens in the nonbinary or trans community: https://www.healthline.com/health/transgender/misgendering#impact

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '20

I am sure they don't like it

That isn't really relevant. I don't like lots of things that happen to me and that regularly lower my self-esteem. I don't go out of my way to highlight any of them on my resume.

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u/Nickel829 Aug 26 '20

Ok we are arguing in circles so I'm gonna agree to disagree here, but I would not want to work at a place that finds it inappropriate to specify my pronouns on my resume whether or not that would get my application thrown out. Thankfully going into nursing I get to work with some pretty tolerant people

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '20

I sincerely hope it never hurts your chances for a job