“Completely Bizarre” | Council Worker Sacked After Writing ‘Adult Human Male’ In Email

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  • An East Riding of Yorkshire council worker, James Orwin, was fired after protesting against the use of pronouns in his email signature.
    He objected to council chief executive Caroline Lacey's suggestion that employees consider adding pronouns to their email signatures.
    Ben Jones from Free Speech Union joins Talk’s Alex Phillips to discuss this further, with Alex saying transgender ideology pronoun policing is a form of bullying.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 867

  • @ravencole8727
    @ravencole8727 2 місяці тому +592

    It's compelled speech and compelled belief. Employees should have the right to opt out of this nonsense.

    • @lynnm6413
      @lynnm6413 2 місяці тому +36

      Adult human male should be very relevant!
      It means the he/him is natural, and uncontroversial.
      Which excludes the ones for whom this isn’t true. Sucks for them, I suppose.
      Because Adult human male/female is the reality for 95% of the population.

    • @VOLightPortal
      @VOLightPortal 2 місяці тому +38

      ​@@lynnm6413 being very normal and natural is very very controversial. Being sane and peaceful is a hate crime. Outrage culture, wokeism and Islamism is the new moral standard.

    • @KeytarArgonian
      @KeytarArgonian 2 місяці тому +21

      Funnily enough freedom from compelled speech is outlined by the ECHR.

    • @secondchance6603
      @secondchance6603 2 місяці тому +57

      If you can get people banned/cancelled/arrested/jailed for hurting your feelings, you are not the oppressed... you are the oppressor.

    • @personalcheeses8073
      @personalcheeses8073 2 місяці тому +25

      @@lynnm6413Adult human male/female is 100% of the population. Even with the negligible amount of intersex people. Their chromosomes dictate the sex they were born to be, if the development in the womb had gone according to plan.

  • @ep8029
    @ep8029 2 місяці тому +198

    Woke logic: We're so diverse and inclusive, we'll sack anyone who's not the same as us.

    • @jamied1579
      @jamied1579 2 місяці тому

      Also woke logic - gender is a social construct and social constructs are harmful and oppressive, so naturally we demand everyone adhere to our system of pronouns, which is demonstrably a social construct

    • @kevinlarke4837
      @kevinlarke4837 2 місяці тому

      So that's not inclusive is it , so they should sack themselves

    • @bissetttom1738
      @bissetttom1738 2 місяці тому +4

      you nailed it exactly.

  • @marychapman177
    @marychapman177 2 місяці тому +373

    All this "celebrating diversity" and "being inclusive" - seems to me an excuse for bullying. Not acceptable. It's more than word games it's psychological games .....messing with people's heads

    • @PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars
      @PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars 2 місяці тому

      They DON'T celebrate diversity though. It's racism and sexism writ large. ALL of it against one particular group.
      The true face of Discrimination, Exclusion and Intolerance (DEI) should be broadcast far and wide!

    • @fanman4230
      @fanman4230 2 місяці тому +25

      Couldn't agree more. This pronoun rubbish is mandatory for the loony left and hilarious to the based Right. Oops. My political bias is showing.

    • @secondchance6603
      @secondchance6603 2 місяці тому

      Women were more than happy to jump on the 'rainbow' bandwagon just to dump all over heterosexual men only to have the 'trans' mob hijack it and now these same women want the men they dumped on to defend them from the very people they jumped onboard with. Ironic huh!

    • @elsiecater156
      @elsiecater156 2 місяці тому

      I think if the employees work has and is satisfactory they had no right to sack him I'm sorry he lost his case on a political harassment item which has nothing to do with his work. I think he is well out of that woke toxic workplace and hope he gets another job. It is appalling how many are being attracted due to this woke rubbish that has been allowed to take over so many places that should be caring for people as people not as some ideology that has our futures in danger while it is allowed to remain in place let's get hard headed and say no to this rubbish.

    • @triciabaker8992
      @triciabaker8992 2 місяці тому +4

      @@marychapman177 spot on!

  • @agentsmithmememe
    @agentsmithmememe 2 місяці тому +244

    Why are people being sacked over other people's delusional behaviour?

    • @ShallowDepression
      @ShallowDepression 2 місяці тому +9

      5th Generational Warfare.

    • @elis7283
      @elis7283 2 місяці тому +4

      Cause bulliying through kindness

    •  2 місяці тому +7

      We have to pretend now. Facts etc are no longer allowed.

    • @satisfied656
      @satisfied656 2 місяці тому +7

      In my opinion everybody should live their lifes how they want....as long as they don´t bother anybody, or try to involve others into their "own beliefs" all should be fine, that´s called "personal freedom"!

    • @jamied1579
      @jamied1579 2 місяці тому +4

      Social engineering on steroids

  • @keithawhosoever5384
    @keithawhosoever5384 2 місяці тому +213

    I can so identify with that council worker .
    Not only because I was a council employed bus driver here on the Isle of Wight , but because I'm a "Adult Human Male" 😊
    I hope he sues those DEI woke , gender benders for all they've got ❗

    • @bengleiss9416
      @bengleiss9416 2 місяці тому

      From what you're saying you sound quite childish, hardly demonstrating your humanity. And when it's that small can you really consider yourself male 😂

    • @andyxox4168
      @andyxox4168 2 місяці тому +1

      Can I identify as a West Indian bus driver and get a job despite the fact that I’m from Cheshire and can’t drive a bus 😂

  • @ScofaUK
    @ScofaUK 2 місяці тому +52

    Well done James for standing your ground, sorry that the system has failed you.

  • @Buddha2024-w7y
    @Buddha2024-w7y 2 місяці тому +319

    Totalitarianism is here and it's dressed up as kindness and caring.

    • @VOLightPortal
      @VOLightPortal 2 місяці тому +14

      With a siezure-triggering coloured wig and demon styled eye liner

    • @O1R2B3I4T5
      @O1R2B3I4T5 2 місяці тому +2

      So true

    • @Dandan-tg6tj
      @Dandan-tg6tj 2 місяці тому

      It is and it always was like this.

    • @diane4488
      @diane4488 2 місяці тому +7

      It's always dressed up as kindness and caring.
      If you live in North Korea, you have to praise your leader, and behave as if he is the biggest saviour the world has ever seen.
      Hitler had films made, about the concentration camps, telling the public how wonderful they were, and that the Jewish people were being treated kindly, and living in a wonderful environment, rather like holiday camps.
      It's probably always been that way.
      If evil poses as evil, they'd never get away with it.

    • @Dandan-tg6tj
      @Dandan-tg6tj 2 місяці тому +5

      @@diane4488 Makes you wonder how are people so stupid, isn't it?

  • @kevin982
    @kevin982 2 місяці тому +277

    This madness has to stop. It's beyond beyond.

    • @_Why_123
      @_Why_123 2 місяці тому +13

      @kevin982 - Monty Python comes to mind! 🤔

    • @ordinarybread
      @ordinarybread 2 місяці тому +7

      @@_Why_123 where's the fetus gonna gestate? a boX??

    • @secondchance6603
      @secondchance6603 2 місяці тому +3

      Notice how there's no mention of women pretending to be men?

    • @northernlady212
      @northernlady212 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@secondchance6603 I've thought about that - . They aren't stronger than men not likely to assault them in anyway And to be a woman going into a man's space - you are likely to be genuine, or you wouldn't due to the above considerations the other way round

    • @fujivato
      @fujivato 2 місяці тому

      @@ordinarybreaddon’t you oppress me! 😂

  • @carltaylor6452
    @carltaylor6452 2 місяці тому +182

    I hope this worker intends to appeal. This really cannot be allowed to set a precedent.

    • @manchegocheese997
      @manchegocheese997 2 місяці тому +3

      He did appeal, and lost.

    • @triciabaker8992
      @triciabaker8992 2 місяці тому +6

      @@manchegocheese997That is terrible. We will have to shout out about this nonsense as a collective. I was told I didn’t have to put myself down as a Mrs or Miss so why force this shite upon anybody?

    • @triciabaker8992
      @triciabaker8992 2 місяці тому +5

      We need a law to back us up.

    • @maninthestreet01
      @maninthestreet01 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@manchegocheese997 No he hasn't appealed, this wasn't an appeal against an earlier employment tribunal result,
      it was the employment tribunal itself.

  • @mymgb66
    @mymgb66 2 місяці тому +161

    The Governor of Arkansas in America has banned all that idiotic nonsense from all their Governing documents and letters in and out of offices. It’s a start.

    • @oliverhug3
      @oliverhug3 2 місяці тому +4

      fArRiGhT😅

    • @sbwlearning1372
      @sbwlearning1372 2 місяці тому

      Versus the fascism of policed pronouns​@@oliverhug3

    • @northernlady212
      @northernlady212 2 місяці тому

      So. What do they put?

    • @mymgb66
      @mymgb66 2 місяці тому +15

      @@northernlady212 normal grammar that we all learnt at school as children.

    • @elsiecater156
      @elsiecater156 2 місяці тому +1

      Congratulations wonderful some minds are starting to loose the black woke cloud let's all countries states etc take this important step back to normalcy god bless 😊❤

  • @MikeAmbler-v5v
    @MikeAmbler-v5v 2 місяці тому +235

    I'm an adult human male & my wife is an adult human female the only 2 genders 😊

    • @woodlandlady7011
      @woodlandlady7011 2 місяці тому +18

      Don't you mean the only 2 sexes?

    • @MikeAmbler-v5v
      @MikeAmbler-v5v 2 місяці тому

      @woodlandlady7011 whatever you say bell end 🖕

    • @roaroa5291
      @roaroa5291 2 місяці тому +22

      ​@@woodlandlady7011 I think he means the only 2 genders/sexes.

    • @risenshine2783
      @risenshine2783 2 місяці тому +16

      Gender is a word I stopped using as I was told it could be anything you want(!) so I use sex as they can be only two sexes.

    • @J-CBertrand-tp6bg
      @J-CBertrand-tp6bg 2 місяці тому

      Ah but you forgot people who are BORN intersexed - people who are BORN expressing genitalia from BOTH sexes at birth. They do exist and they are a third gender and a third sex. Now because our society cannot accept such things, parents of the Intersexed person and the doctor attending the birth will operate on that person and decide, against the Intersexed person’s free will due to that person being a newborn, to ARBITRARILY CHOOSE the gender they think the Intersexed person should be. That is a decision the Intersexed individual should make on their own when they are old enough to make that free will decision themselves. It is, after all, their body that they were born with and they should have full control over their body. So you are completely in error to write that there are only two sexes and two genders. 😀

  • @georgerobartes2008
    @georgerobartes2008 2 місяці тому +139

    Having spenþ the first 40 years of my life in a sane country , the last couple of ddcades of complete and utter stupidity across the board in every institution from schools to government is getting very tiring .

    • @xgtwb6473
      @xgtwb6473 2 місяці тому +1

      Which country

    • @user-ig4mn6cm5y
      @user-ig4mn6cm5y 2 місяці тому

      It's not stupidity it's done on purpose to try and break the UK the shops are closing in favour of internet shopping office buildings emptying for AI technology these buildings will be turned into flats causing ghettos and slum areas the councils and government are working together it's TREASON against the British people

    • @georgerobartes2008
      @georgerobartes2008 2 місяці тому +2

      @@xgtwb6473 Why , Sealand of course ? !

    • @johnnyshinnichi1785
      @johnnyshinnichi1785 2 місяці тому +4

      @@georgerobartes2008 I don't think they would put up with this sh*t. They'd make you walk the plank 😀

    • @georgerobartes2008
      @georgerobartes2008 2 місяці тому +1

      @@johnnyshinnichi1785 😂😂

  • @imarcher6629
    @imarcher6629 2 місяці тому +44

    It's just yet another way narcissists bully ordinary people.

  • @grantmaciver9597
    @grantmaciver9597 2 місяці тому +113

    If an unfortunate person is born with one leg ,why should the world be bullied to limp ?

    • @manuellayburr382
      @manuellayburr382 2 місяці тому +3

      I dread to think what pronouns a disabled person would be expected to use.

    • @fretbuzz59
      @fretbuzz59 2 місяці тому

      @@manuellayburr382 Not sure what you're thinking here. Pronouns are based strictly on sex/gender; nothing to do with disabilities.

    • @agentsmithmememe
      @agentsmithmememe 2 місяці тому

      @@fretbuzz59 bollocks, these people are delusional and expect us to go along with it

    • @manuellayburr382
      @manuellayburr382 2 місяці тому +7

      @@fretbuzz59 If you think pronouns these days are based solely on gender, I'm afraid you are out of date.

    • @fretbuzz59
      @fretbuzz59 2 місяці тому

      @@manuellayburr382 Okay. So, pronouns such as ...

  • @nothingtoseehere999
    @nothingtoseehere999 2 місяці тому +21

    I'm glad I'm retired I could not go along with this madness

  • @jamescrydeman540
    @jamescrydeman540 2 місяці тому +9

    The council chief executive should have been sacked.

  • @brianlee5702
    @brianlee5702 2 місяці тому +46

    Anyone unsure about the definition of a woman should simply ask their mother.

    • @daveyt986
      @daveyt986 2 місяці тому +2

      Should not be allowed in any position of authority and as far away from children as possible.

  • @Healingpoppy
    @Healingpoppy 2 місяці тому +92

    It is absolutely bullying and there seems to be too many people who are influenced by bullies who use social media these days.
    It's also an attack on personal privacy if you don't want to expose your preferred pronouns regardless of whether you're in favour of the ideology or not . (Signed, adult human female).

  • @wonderpookie
    @wonderpookie 2 місяці тому +48

    Secondary school teacher of 12 years who lost his job after I questioned all the transgender assemblies senior leaders in our school were giving, trying their damn best to normalise it. Most students disagree. Most teachers disagree. No one says anything out of fear. My union rep said I was incredibly lucky I wasn't barred from working with under 19yo's as well as losing my job... just think about that for a minute... the stigma. THIS IS THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.

  • @deirdreloughran8258
    @deirdreloughran8258 2 місяці тому +82

    Adult human female here 2024

  • @keithbuckley3220
    @keithbuckley3220 2 місяці тому +24

    Haven't Councils got better things to do "LIKE LOOKING AFTER THE PEOPLE THEY WERE ELECTED BY"

  • @TheMilford99
    @TheMilford99 2 місяці тому +54

    I`ve despised Councils and their ways ever since my much older business partners wife, as a long serving Ealing London Council manager had to eventually tell off a black girl for constantly being late. She went to the diversity manager saying she didn`t like her managers attitude. Result, this loveliest of people was asked to take early retirement.

    • @jimjoelliejack
      @jimjoelliejack 2 місяці тому +15

      FFS it’s gone absolutely frigging mental. I can not stand all this woke shite.

    • @errin-mp1zy
      @errin-mp1zy 2 місяці тому

      It will back fire on them big time soon, when the only employees they have are the lazy thick ones that they bend over backwards for.

    • @triciabaker8992
      @triciabaker8992 2 місяці тому +7

      That’s utterly disgraceful. Doing the same with criminality. If you can be considered a victim those in charge are over the top in trying make you one, even if you actually are the bully.

    • @helendancelot
      @helendancelot 2 місяці тому +3

      Being late is unfair to other workers..

    • @TheMilford99
      @TheMilford99 2 місяці тому

      @@helendancelot Sure, but it`s also selfish and pig ignorant.

  • @steveharmon6440
    @steveharmon6440 2 місяці тому +20

    Sadly, we can't boycott a council - but we can send thousands of emails of complaint... so give us an address and let's do it! We have to make our views heard NOW!

  • @kennethrichardson8311
    @kennethrichardson8311 2 місяці тому +67

    I identify as a robot, imagine my guilt when I'm forced to lie and click on the box 'I am not a robot'

    • @asassynation9955
      @asassynation9955 2 місяці тому +8

      That’s awful. 😢 Such discrimination.

    • @ladychatelaine697
      @ladychatelaine697 2 місяці тому +5

      😂😂😂👍🇬🇧

    • @LowlyEidolon
      @LowlyEidolon 2 місяці тому +1

      Yet you are not forced to lie, you have the choice to tick the box or not and you choice to tick the box

    • @AlphaGeekgirl
      @AlphaGeekgirl 2 місяці тому +2

      @@LowlyEidolon but he is forced to lie because otherwise he will be locked out of so many things for no good reason

  • @jacquelinenix9035
    @jacquelinenix9035 2 місяці тому +29

    How can you be sacked for telling the truth? Clown world.

  • @johart9994
    @johart9994 2 місяці тому +24

    It’s like living in Orwell’s 1984
    Its actually scary

  • @tedthesailor172
    @tedthesailor172 2 місяці тому +21

    But surely someone is free to "identify" as an "adult human male"...?

  • @chrisperrins8082
    @chrisperrins8082 2 місяці тому +12

    Absolutely disgusting and disgraceful. The stupid law should be changed.

  • @lawsonspedding6136
    @lawsonspedding6136 2 місяці тому +9

    I don’t comply and I won’t comply ! It’s a bullying fascism ! I don’t cow tow to bullies !

  • @marializ7
    @marializ7 2 місяці тому +13

    Hmmm... working places should be places to 'work' , not to 'woke'.

  • @Vince_Paul
    @Vince_Paul 2 місяці тому +60

    The problem here is not just the pronouns. The problem is being forced to use them by directors and chief executives that no one vote for to run the council.
    Members of the public in any given council area don’t get a choice of those at the top of the councils that make the decisions that cost the taxpayers money or how the council is run and by who.
    They are not held accountable for their actions or idiotic ideas.

  • @michaellinehan2660
    @michaellinehan2660 2 місяці тому +4

    Throughout my life, I've been mis-named (Mike instead of Michael) and mis-nationalitied (English, Australian, South African or Scottish instead of Irish). I've never fired or cancelled anyone, in spite of such heinous behaviour.

  • @mattevans4377
    @mattevans4377 2 місяці тому +42

    If the words 'adult human male' can be seen as offensive, then anything can be seen as offensive, including existence.....

    • @nachonovo04
      @nachonovo04 2 місяці тому +1

      Your comment containts the word "male". I am offended. Is it still 999 to report hate crimes?

  • @caramelanomaly2873
    @caramelanomaly2873 2 місяці тому +31

    So you can make up any old rubbish and demand it be used as your pronouns, but as soon as you use the scientific term, you're sacked. Absolute madness.
    Edit.. maybe we should all just go full throttle with the most ridiculous pronouns and watch society eat itself alive it would also take away the attention from these people that they so desperately crave because if everyone's special then no one is 😅😂

    • @CL-he4jz
      @CL-he4jz 2 місяці тому

      yes. this was my thought too. " play them at their own game" en masse

  • @keithjackman8886
    @keithjackman8886 2 місяці тому +48

    James Orwin, Shame on the tribunal. Upholding complete and utter nonsense.

    • @northernlady212
      @northernlady212 2 місяці тому

      Ah, but they had to decide if he had gone against what he was asked to do not if it made sense

  • @voulafisentzidis8830
    @voulafisentzidis8830 2 місяці тому +11

    Whilst I support trans people living their best lives, it stops when it comes to changing my use of the English language to nonsensical pronouns, to accommodate individual preferences. Language rules serve a purpose (to help each of us communicate with others) so those who expect every single person they meet to remember their chosen pronouns are deluded, at best. Most of us are too busy working, raising families, and endeavouring to survive in this crazy world.

  • @markhodgkinson1737
    @markhodgkinson1737 2 місяці тому +14

    The worker should claim unfair dismissal due to discrimination.

  • @janereid1440
    @janereid1440 2 місяці тому +14

    It's all a load of complete nonsense! For a woman in her fifties, no one; I mean, no one, will ever force me to refer to a single person by plural pronouns. I was taught grammar at school, and am not about to change now.

  • @robg521
    @robg521 2 місяці тому +12

    We had a private consultancy company employed by our company, they emailed every manager in my department and the person sending the email had the pronoun identifiers printed after their name.
    Every single person in my department ignored and didn’t answer the email.

  • @rafezetter8003
    @rafezetter8003 2 місяці тому +10

    Lawsuit. Though the taxpayer will end up funding it - but in this case I think it's valid.

  • @Chris-qv5gv
    @Chris-qv5gv 2 місяці тому +23

    When I started working in the civil service in 1993, I joined a campaign to be allowed to have email signatures, and signatures on letters that were completely gender neutral. We wanted to drop the Mr, Ms, Miss, Mrs in the signatures to avoid bias. We managed to do that and life became a bit easier, especially for women working in a male dominated area. But now, the signifiers are back in the form of pronouns. And they're not even accurate in some cases! The demand (or suggestion) to put pronouns on signatures is a modern day shibboleth, designed to see who is in agreement with the ideology and who is not. It's the very opposite of inclusive.

    • @raycundy4265
      @raycundy4265 2 місяці тому

      So you are partly to blame then? In what way is putting a word used for years as best practice in business (like Mr/Mrs) bias? So that decision was made to help the feminists who felt they were being discriminated against was it? You reap what you sow. All these changes of things that have been around decades don't necessarily mean they're better. They were included for a reason. And what does it matter whether someone wants to address themselves as Mr or Mrs? Not even all women are feminists are they? So that decision was made to placate a certain percentage (feminists) in our society who may be in a minority, just like these crazed gender benders are a minority in our society these days. But what is now happening especially in the public sector is the ideology is being forced down people's throats so they have to accept it or lose their jobs. It's a good thing that the people running our public services and business didn't have that attitude when you decided to support the feminists isn't it? Otherwise, trying to change it might have lost you your job.

    • @jimosullivan1389
      @jimosullivan1389 2 місяці тому

      I got a letter from the council signed Susan Penelope Smith. I don't know if it's a man or a woman. What should I do ?😎

    • @raycundy4265
      @raycundy4265 2 місяці тому

      @@jimosullivan1389 According to the Transgender mob you don't have to do anything because according to them there are no differences between a man and a woman. A man can be a woman and a woman can be a man. Therefore, as we all think, look and feel the same why do we need to know who one is writing to? For a small percentage of the world population (transgenders are probably less than 1% of the whole planet's population), so as to make these poor darlings feel inclusive when most of them (not all) voluntarily decide they want to be a different gender, hundreds of years of history and precedent have to be pushed aside by the rest of us. Utter tosh!!

  • @ericbrown7297
    @ericbrown7297 2 місяці тому +8

    I abhor the bastardisation of the English language which is what they are doing. No public office should ever use pronouns in any of their documentation.

  • @clivebonneywell6967
    @clivebonneywell6967 2 місяці тому +68

    So in the name of inclusion they exclude others hypocritical

    • @davidbarnes241
      @davidbarnes241 2 місяці тому +3

      It’s hypocritical craziness 😡

    • @branbroken
      @branbroken 2 місяці тому

      Its more in the name of inclusion, they dont want people taking the piss. If he had just put down his pronouns or even argued against putting any, he wouldn't have been fired or lost the the tribunal. Its because of the way hes gone about it, treating it like a joke, thats cause his problem.

    • @clivebonneywell6967
      @clivebonneywell6967 2 місяці тому +1

      @@branbroken are you for real 😳

    • @branbroken
      @branbroken 2 місяці тому

      @clivebonneywell6967 why wouldnt i be, he had clear choices. Agree and disclose his pronouns, disagree and resuse to disclose. He chose an option that showed he didnt take it seriously and indirectly invalidated others.

    • @clivebonneywell6967
      @clivebonneywell6967 2 місяці тому +2

      @@branbroken he stated what he is a male adult

  • @gerrywoody4301
    @gerrywoody4301 2 місяці тому +11

    I was asked at a medical centre my pronouns i answered normal man. It made my day to see the types that were offended😅

  • @smash461986
    @smash461986 2 місяці тому +10

    Sounds like grounds for an unfair dismissal trial. Forget the tribunal.

    • @diane4488
      @diane4488 2 місяці тому

      Unfair dismissal claims, are heard at Tribunals.

  • @psibug565
    @psibug565 2 місяці тому +8

    I hope the voters find out who was pushing this non-sense in the council and vote them out.

  • @Psammead21
    @Psammead21 2 місяці тому +36

    At my workplace, I've been sent more than one email over the past few years demanding I "complete" my "personal profile" on their Workspace app. As I feel my sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, let alone my "preferred pronouns" have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the amount of work I can and am able to do on a shift, my personal profile *is* complete, thanks.

    • @branbroken
      @branbroken 2 місяці тому +5

      And guess why you havent been fired over it, because you are allowed to refuse to provide any information on your protected characteristics. It would be a different story if you went and filled it in with joke answers that shows you dont take it seriously. Thats why the guy they are discussing lost at tribunal.

    • @Psammead21
      @Psammead21 2 місяці тому +3

      @@branbroken Yes, exactly. I haven't done that because I've never felt the need to do that myself. But the demanding tone in the emails get rather annoying. I conveniently forget about receiving them having already filed them under 'B'. I'm not the only one who refuses to comply and it wouldn't bother me if I was.

    • @branbroken
      @branbroken 2 місяці тому +4

      @Psammead21 no, i get it. Im constantly getting requests from work to complete equality and diversity form too and i wont fill it in either and i wouldnt even if i was one of the criteria they are looking to meet diversity points on, its my private business. They don't need to know.

    • @Psammead21
      @Psammead21 2 місяці тому +2

      @@branbroken 100%

    • @CL-he4jz
      @CL-he4jz 2 місяці тому +2

      "​adult human male" is not a joke, that is an assumption that it's some kind of joke he made.
      it seems deadly serious to me.
      it seems as clear a description as he could have given, considering the question had a range of answers, a range that is seemingly vast, and ever-expanding.
      who made up the list?
      is it an evolving list?
      does it encompass people's good-faith efforts to expand the list to include them?
      are they to be excluded?

  • @daveyt986
    @daveyt986 2 місяці тому +2

    Unfair dismissal case right there.
    Take the individuals responsible to the cleaners, not the council, as the council will use taxpayers money to pay legal fees and any settlement

  • @williamgeorgefraser
    @williamgeorgefraser 2 місяці тому +24

    The only pronouns needed when talking to someone are "you", "I/me" and "we/us".

    • @northernlady212
      @northernlady212 2 місяці тому +2

      And the names of individuals 😸

    • @JohnJamesOrange
      @JohnJamesOrange 2 місяці тому +1

      Pronouns have been around since the English language came to be.

  • @stevemarshall4822
    @stevemarshall4822 2 місяці тому +2

    Seems like an unfair dismissal to me: hardly gross misconduct which is what you need to suspend and sack someone.

  • @Frazman72
    @Frazman72 2 місяці тому +2

    Surely has a claim to sue the council for unfair dismissal!

  • @daveofyorkshire301
    @daveofyorkshire301 2 місяці тому +37

    If the description was about himself how could they sack him for his own identity? That is exclusionary and undermining his identity.

    • @branbroken
      @branbroken 2 місяці тому

      Because adult human male is not a pronoun. If he had played ball and just put he/him thered not have been an issue, if he had refused to disclose pronouns on the email signature he may have been questioned on this and why he wasnt following policy however you generally have a protected right not to identify/disclose that information and if he was fired he would then have won the tribunal. What you can't do is what this guy did and turn it into a joke and invalidate others.

    • @daveofyorkshire301
      @daveofyorkshire301 2 місяці тому +1

      @@branbroken Who says it isn't? If you can make one up why isn't it acceptable to use this?
      It is not a right... It's an imposition.

    • @northernlady212
      @northernlady212 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@branbrokenI don't see what he put as a joke. He stated facts, leaving others to decide on the appropriate pronoun for someone described in that way.

    • @CL-he4jz
      @CL-he4jz 2 місяці тому

      ​@@daveofyorkshire301yes, what i wonder is, who made up the list of " acceptable " ones then?

    • @daveofyorkshire301
      @daveofyorkshire301 2 місяці тому

      @@CL-he4jz That's the trick, there is no list of acceptable ones, it's fluid and subjective to be weaponised whichever way you turn...

  • @33andathird
    @33andathird 2 місяці тому +21

    "We're inclusive. But we're not including you. Here's your P45 mate!"
    How's that kinder, more caring UK working out for you all?😂

    • @branbroken
      @branbroken 2 місяці тому

      No, its were inclusive but wont accept you mocking others.

    • @northernlady212
      @northernlady212 2 місяці тому +4

      ​@@branbroken facts were stated. What is wrong with stating facts? Ok, so the question wasn't answered but only straight facts were given, nothing stupid or funny 🤷

    • @CL-he4jz
      @CL-he4jz 2 місяці тому +1

      it is an assumption that it was mockery.
      you absolutely do NOT and cannot claim to know the intent.
      it could easily be seen as an attempt to be clear, in an increasingly confusing situation.
      maybe the person felt he might put " he/him" and somehow " get it wrong" and be vilified.

    • @CL-he4jz
      @CL-he4jz 2 місяці тому +1

      ie you are assuming trolling.
      but language is for clarity.
      people ARE confused over this.
      you could assume mockery, but is there a chance that that assumption is wrong?
      could absolute clarity, to the best of his ability, be the intention?
      law rests on intention quite often.

    • @branbroken
      @branbroken 2 місяці тому

      @@CL-he4jz you absolutely can when putting 'XYchromosomeGuy/AdultHumanMale' as their pronouns

  • @281992pdr
    @281992pdr 2 місяці тому +3

    Compelling someone to refer to you a particular way in your absence smacks of fascism.

  • @mackib430
    @mackib430 2 місяці тому +25

    They say to ignore childish behaviour in children so I’m hoping if ignored enough it will all disappear,,,

  • @pinballrobbie
    @pinballrobbie 2 місяці тому +1

    Feelings have become more important than truth! More important than law and more important than common sense.

  • @leanatale7251
    @leanatale7251 2 місяці тому +6

    Can we call them weirdos

  • @markstephens5118
    @markstephens5118 2 місяці тому +11

    I think I understand the French Revolution now, and I have the unsettling feeling we are in the Western world and are heading for a repeat with this never-ending stupidity of the bureaucratic classes.!?

    • @CL-he4jz
      @CL-he4jz 2 місяці тому

      the vastness of the beaurocracy is growing and the useful idiocy abounds.
      I have an eg or 10, one even being from the crown prosecution service, most people in " jobs" are not academically able, they do not question or interrogate orders using critical thought.
      they are employed for this purpose.

    • @Journey_to_who_knows
      @Journey_to_who_knows 2 місяці тому

      It feels we are led by the Vogons

  • @mariolabogiel2500
    @mariolabogiel2500 2 місяці тому +6

    They are bonkers

  • @jeanbrown8295
    @jeanbrown8295 2 місяці тому +2

    This is utter rubbish,whoever sacked her,should be sacked.The council should be taken to court for unfair dismissal

  • @garryokeefe1605
    @garryokeefe1605 2 місяці тому +28

    What a TOTAL disgusting DISGRACE, the judge should also be dismissed, this madness has gone too far and this sets a completely unfair precedent as it defies reality and the public who do NOT want this pushed onto them! Appeal or take to a higher authority - maybe the court of so-called Human Rights will be more realistic?

    • @KeytarArgonian
      @KeytarArgonian 2 місяці тому +1

      ECHR details that compelled speech is an infringement of human rights, so if this guy had simply refused he would have won. But because he essentially trolled them, he won’t now win. This should be a warning to people. Simply refuse and elaborate, but don’t fire back and you will win. If you try to be clever you waive that.

    • @garryokeefe1605
      @garryokeefe1605 2 місяці тому

      Let's hope this serves as a warning to those unwillingly affected - it seems that it is a case of refusing then, but if pushed by management, do not elaborate and just repeat your refusal? It would be good to know how you get out of a position like this in writing. What exact phrase would suit in rejecting a pronoun email imposition 'offer' from a council or official body? ie;
      (1) "Thank you but I do not use pro-nouns"? (2) "I believe in freedom of choice and do not use pronouns"? (3) "Thank you for the update, I do not wish to use pronouns personally"? An exact legal phrase agreeable to an appeal court would be good to know. Can a council however INSIST on you addressing colleagues by their prounoun, if given, and EVEN if you have stated your right and wish not to participate? This is important.

    • @branbroken
      @branbroken 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@garryokeefe1605 everyone uses pronouns, you cant avoid them. You can refuse to disclose your prefered pronouns, in which case anyone you interact with will infer them, so don't go being an arse if the pronouns you prefer are not used after refusing to disclose. You may not find disclosure of pronouns so silly if someone constantly usd one you dont identify as.

    • @KeytarArgonian
      @KeytarArgonian 2 місяці тому +1

      @@garryokeefe1605 I would take the ‘prefer not to say’ route. If it is included in your job application process, if it is included in applications for anything in the council itself I.e housing etc, you should be within your rights to simply say ‘no, I prefer not to say.’ Then, if pushed you are now being compelled.

    • @garryokeefe1605
      @garryokeefe1605 2 місяці тому +2

      @@branbroken Thanks Bran, but no one uses them in my office while I'm freelance anyway and don't do any major interfacoing with anyone. I haven''t had any dealings with such bodies for many years now or anyone who does, so its not for me and I'm not joining the nonsense. I come from a more sensible era and have a birth name which I find sufficient and I'm for staying with that.

  • @rogermoore5761
    @rogermoore5761 2 місяці тому +1

    The country is bloody mad in more ways than one. It would be hilarious if it was a Monty Python sketch. It is the Chief Executive who should be sacked for wasting Council Tax payers money on such stupidity. It is misuse of Public Funds.

  • @80PercentScottish
    @80PercentScottish 2 місяці тому +8

    I'm the only person in a team of seven that doesn't have pronouns in my email signature. As a team, we email out to the same people all the time. Sometimes, people respond to me saying it's nice when I email them because I don't have the stupid pronoun thing.

    • @hedgehogwildlifejunction9119
      @hedgehogwildlifejunction9119 2 місяці тому +2

      its too funny isn't it. if i signed my name Richard, why would i add a pronoun. its bizarre. So, what does “he/him/his” mean in a signature? It means the person who sent you the message wants to be referred to as “he” or “him” when using pronouns. If you talk about something that the sender possesses, you would use the pronoun “his” to describe it.
      SERIOUSLY ITS TOO FUNNY. I am so so glad i am 73, disabled and on my way out of this madness. so what is a signature? a person's name written in a distinctive way as a form of identification in authorizing a cheque or document or concluding a letter. so why do you need to use pronouns? I sign my name Ricard Idiot, why would i need to add a pronoun to it lol. I don't know i am too old for this poop lol. SIGNING OFF CONFUSED AND BEFUDDLED LOL.

  • @timatkins5956
    @timatkins5956 2 місяці тому +6

    Pathetic woke council .

  • @jamescrydeman540
    @jamescrydeman540 2 місяці тому +5

    The more some people try to make things perfect, in their eyes, the more they blind themselves to the damage they do.

  • @darrylwigginton1067
    @darrylwigginton1067 2 місяці тому +15

    Needs to appeal & if loses that go even higher as i have had to do myself

  • @alrivas1477
    @alrivas1477 2 місяці тому +3

    You’re not free without free speech. This is why it’s our 1st Amendment and the right to bear arms is 2nd.

  • @lucylane7397
    @lucylane7397 2 місяці тому +13

    They asked him a question then when he answered they said sorry wrong answer

  • @robertmeldrum2084
    @robertmeldrum2084 2 місяці тому +11

    I was going to say take them to an industrial tribunal but he did and lost which is absolutely unbelievable. What kind of idiots run the tribunals, i bet they would have found in his favour if he was muslim. Wouldn't dare sack them over this.

  • @johnjones4129
    @johnjones4129 2 місяці тому +9

    I am learning French so I identify as bilingual ........and wish to be adresed as Mr. and Monsieur ........

  • @bushpig6837
    @bushpig6837 2 місяці тому +4

    My employer is pushing for this in our email signatures so it's only a matter of time. I'm prepared to put Mr. in front of my name and if people can't work out that I'm male from that then that's a them problem.

  • @taxidude
    @taxidude 2 місяці тому +5

    Somebody seems to think keeping the adult population angry is a good idea.

  • @Martinthehun59
    @Martinthehun59 2 місяці тому +2

    For the love of God, what has this world come to...????

  • @EnglishTurbines
    @EnglishTurbines 2 місяці тому +1

    Of course, Council Workers are people who can't hold down a real job....This includes Council Bosses, clearly....🤔😳🙄🇬🇧

  • @SidBonkers51
    @SidBonkers51 2 місяці тому +22

    TBH till this woke nonsense started I had no idea what the hell a pronoun was and could care less.

    • @ladychatelaine697
      @ladychatelaine697 2 місяці тому

      You obviously didn't pay attention in English class, then! 🙄😖🇬🇧

    • @SidBonkers51
      @SidBonkers51 2 місяці тому

      @@ladychatelaine697 OK, you got me there ;)

  • @patjohnson-u8m
    @patjohnson-u8m 2 місяці тому +3

    Ludicrous

  • @richardallen503
    @richardallen503 2 місяці тому +6

    So you can use any pronoun as long as “they” agree with it ! Pathetic.

  • @sumary7663
    @sumary7663 2 місяці тому +1

    I always thought that bosses were meant to be the clever ones. It turns out I was wrong and in many cases they are the stupid ones.

  • @MrMoriarty100
    @MrMoriarty100 2 місяці тому +1

    Can't you just tell that Labour are back in power.

  • @wardygrub
    @wardygrub 2 місяці тому

    Mr Orwin should take this further if he can. What about human-rights judiciaries??? Surely he has a right to not indulge ideological groups if he doesn’t want to????

  • @MathildaMann
    @MathildaMann 2 місяці тому +2

    Absolutely makes no sense and is outrageous!

  •  2 місяці тому +25

    Country is screwed

  • @Stringer13ell
    @Stringer13ell 2 місяці тому +5

    A couple of times I've had emails from some they/thems from people who have very obvious male names. Makes no sense

    • @MoonlightSonata214
      @MoonlightSonata214 2 місяці тому

      I absolutely refuse to engage with this nonsense. If challenged, I would ask if the person understood the difference between singular and plural - pointing out that my toddler knows the difference between 'one' and 'more than one' - and quote the Oxford dictionary, which defines both they and them as "used to refer to two or more people or things."

    • @Stringer13ell
      @Stringer13ell 2 місяці тому

      @MoonlightSonata214 they and them aren't only used as a singular, so don't do that. I'm just not prepared to call somebody 'non-binary' pronouns when they haven't sorted their noun out.

    • @MoonlightSonata214
      @MoonlightSonata214 Місяць тому

      @@Stringer13ell "they and them aren't only used as a singular"..... they and them are plurals and should NEVER be used as singular.

    • @Stringer13ell
      @Stringer13ell Місяць тому

      @@MoonlightSonata214 no you are wrong about that, you should stop saying it and try saying things that are true and accurate instead.

  • @agentsmithmememe
    @agentsmithmememe 2 місяці тому +5

    Imagine 1% telling the 99% how to conduct themselves...oh wait nvm

  • @trevorwilliams6404
    @trevorwilliams6404 2 місяці тому +50

    So you are allowed to make up new words and say that's your pronouns. But can not use words the pronouns people want you to use

    • @garylovell6017
      @garylovell6017 2 місяці тому +7

      It was the other way around in this case wasn't it? He wasn't being allowed to use his words for a made - up pronoun, but he would have been allowed to use the pronoun they wanted him to.

    • @Paul-rp7uh
      @Paul-rp7uh 2 місяці тому

      My pronouns are novaks,phuk phizer..

    • @steveblundell7766
      @steveblundell7766 2 місяці тому +12

      @@garylovell6017 How dare they tell him that his pronouns are not pronouns. I thought the true joy of pronouns came from inventing your own

    • @lynnm6413
      @lynnm6413 2 місяці тому +11

      @@steveblundell7766 exactly. Mine change with my mood…so piss/off is very high up most of the times I get asked my pronouns 😇

    • @izoedyourbabydaddy7628
      @izoedyourbabydaddy7628 2 місяці тому

      The problem is he didn't make up a pro noun. He used a definition of a word that already exists. Not a creative bone in his body if you ask me 😂

  • @carnbyarst670
    @carnbyarst670 2 місяці тому +1

    Can he be sacked if he hasn't previously been given verbal and written warnings. This is hardly gross misconduct.

  • @SkotiM
    @SkotiM 2 місяці тому +11

    For everybodies reference the following are pronouns
    who,
    what,
    why,
    where,
    when.
    If I get forced to play this ideologically fascist game then my pronouns will be Who and What.

    • @roaroa5291
      @roaroa5291 2 місяці тому +3

      There's a meme with "I identify as invisible. My pronouns are who/where?"

    • @amandahudson2038
      @amandahudson2038 2 місяці тому

      Flywheel h when.

  • @VOLightPortal
    @VOLightPortal 2 місяці тому +10

    My prefered gender pronoun is a mature, sane adult.

    • @paulinepress3024
      @paulinepress3024 2 місяці тому

      Not many of them about now far too much brainwashing going on

  • @Atlantianreborn
    @Atlantianreborn 2 місяці тому +4

    My pronouns are "F off" & you will obey them. My fav saying to anyone tying to use pronouns in conversation with me.

  • @cbnewham5633
    @cbnewham5633 2 місяці тому +1

    I would have set my pronouns as "your Majesty/your Majesty". If they complained then I would state that yes, those really are my pronouns because I identify as a medieval king. If they insisted I not have those then I'd take them to the tribunal for discrimination and for making fun of my pronouns and how I identify.

  • @BeaHindebars
    @BeaHindebars 2 місяці тому +1

    He needs to find a job somewhere sensible

  • @nezzam100
    @nezzam100 2 місяці тому +7

    Should have used "Sir" and "Master".

  • @johnmitchell2269
    @johnmitchell2269 2 місяці тому +1

    I hope they take it to a tribunal

  • @johnminshell6532
    @johnminshell6532 2 місяці тому +7

    1984 has arrived.

  • @themusingsofamadman.8925
    @themusingsofamadman.8925 2 місяці тому +25

    Ideological subversion !

    • @lucylane7397
      @lucylane7397 2 місяці тому +5

      So he gets sacked for giving his pronoun but if he lied and said he was a woman he would have been ok. Why do you need to state your pronoun I don’t and shouldn’t have control over what other people call me when I am not there

    • @themusingsofamadman.8925
      @themusingsofamadman.8925 2 місяці тому +2

      @@lucylane7397 So what is a pronoun ?

  • @andykrykant5378
    @andykrykant5378 2 місяці тому +5

    Employment tribunals and courts are turning out to be the worst places that support this gibberish.

  • @phileasterbrook6894
    @phileasterbrook6894 2 місяці тому +10

    The world of work/education is completely stupid, so much time is spent with acquiring non-essential information that the purpose of going to work/school is totally wasted!

  • @fozzydare7987
    @fozzydare7987 2 місяці тому +3

    We’re not defined only by gender and sex preferences it’s actually no one’s business - people can find me as they meet me

  • @nickwhite2996
    @nickwhite2996 2 місяці тому +6

    Thing is, you don't use pronouns when talking to that person that is wanting you to use them?

  • @lavender4247
    @lavender4247 2 місяці тому +20

    Do most people even know what a pronoun is?

    • @geehammer1511
      @geehammer1511 2 місяці тому +3

      Yes. They've been shoved in our faces so long people have learned what it means.

    • @clovermark39
      @clovermark39 2 місяці тому

      Too many these days probably.

    • @SueCarr-q8n
      @SueCarr-q8n 2 місяці тому

      Nope ti my shame