Chaya Raichik has a devastating story about a 90-year-old woman who was kicked out of her volunteer position with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society because she didn’t understand why she had to provide her pronouns in her email signature.
The woman, Fran Itkoff, had been volunteering for the MS Society for 60 years, running a support group for MS victims. She was inspired to do so with her husband, who had the disease, and continued her work after he passed away.
Fran was not being an activist and was not protesting the use of pronouns. She didn’t understand why she had to–for obvious reasons. It is stupid for somebody who is obviously a woman to be required to do so.
Fran’s failure to understand the point marked her as someone who violated the MS Society’s DEI policy, and she was dismissed.
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