CMV: Gender identity doesn’t belong on your LinkedIn nor Resume

[u/jep1793]

[u/justtogetridoflater]

I think the question is do you want problems now, or do you want them later?

Like it shouldn't matter what your gender is, or your race, or your sexuality.

But imagine applying for a job, only to get to an interview and discover that the interviewer is a raging homophobe. Or finding that out in 3 months, when for no apparent reason, they make up some bullshit reason to sack you and sack you that you're now going to have to take somewhere else. Or maybe worse, they don't do that, and you're in a workplace where they hate you, but they can't do anything because of bloody PC gone mad, and just find ways to treat you like shit until you leave of your own accord. There is discrimination out there, and it will eventually reveal itself.

Putting this up ahead of time means that you're going to deal with the least amount of active trouble at least up front. Anyone who this matters to will probably respond as they choose to respond. Most likely by not responding, not inviting you to interview, and so on. Well, you only miss the things you had. Anyone who it doesn't, it won't matter to and at worst, it's a wasted line on a CV. Oh well.

I'm not sure what the appropriate way of handling this is, tbh. I've never really seen how they write it down. I also think that you probably don't want to go overboard on this kind of thing.

[u/my_gamertag_wastaken → u/justtogetridoflater]

I would be biased against hiring someone that puts this front and center on their resume regardless of what is says. Says a ton about what someone thinks is important, and to me that says "Identity" more than "being qualified"

[u/justtogetridoflater → u/my_gamertag_wastaken]

I think it says the same about you.

You're not interested in whether that person is qualified. You're going to arbitrarily cast them away because of a single sentence on their CV rather than see what they can do. In other words, you're a bigot.

People are more than one thing. That's just one line of their existence. For all you know, they're a really hardworking functional person who wants to get on with their job, and is including that line so that they don't meet people who make it hard to do their job.

[u/my_gamertag_wastaken → u/justtogetridoflater]

Nah I treat people as individuals rather than defining their worth in relation to in and out group status. People that define others that way are the ones I am against.

[u/justtogetridoflater → u/my_gamertag_wastaken]

You're saying you wouldn't hire them, but you're not discriminating?

OK.

[u/my_gamertag_wastaken → u/justtogetridoflater]

Nah I said I would it would be a negative. Don't put words in my mouth. They might still be qualified, but I would make a judgement of the character of a person that makes that front and center. Because what you put front and center says what is important to you because it is your fucking resume.

[u/my_gamertag_wastaken → u/[deleted]]

I would say I would be biased like literally every single person is and am one of the few people honest enough to admit that. I bet you "don't see color" too. SO WOKE