'AdultHumanMale' | 'Gender-critical' worker sacked over 'deliberately provocative' pronouns in email signature

'Gender-critical' worker sacked over 'deliberately provocative' pronouns in email signature

A 'gender critical' council worker was dismissed after including “deliberately provocative” pronouns to his email signature in protest at his employer’s D&I push.

James Orwin, an IT project officer for East Riding of Yorkshire Council, altered his email signature to include "XYchromosomeGuy/AdultHumanMale" after the local authority encouraged staff to consider adding pronouns to their email signature.

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