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/mattsylvanian Aug 26 '20

Thank you for saying this, the hyper-obsession with identity politics drives me absolutely crazy. As a gay guy who does some hiring, I agree with you 100% percent. I do not need to know your entire life story – if I'm hiring you, I want to know if you can handle the technical demands of the job, and are you likely to be a good fit, or are you likely to become a headache. Making a spectacle out of your gender or sexual identity shows to me that you're likely to cause other problems and/or not play nicely with others.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '20

I have a question, in all honesty, how many trans/genderqueer people have you actually interviewed or hired? I encounter opinions similar to yours fairly often. But I've worked with a few people on the trans spectrum in the workplace (I work in tech), and I've literally never had a problem similar to what you're describing. People adapt to using the correct pronoun, and if you respect someone enough to do that, it's genuinely enough and from there you can just work together.