NC medical student brags on Twitter about deliberately harming patient who mocked her pronoun pin

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Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

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Why wouldn't they?

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What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

Because there is nothing normal about having to state one's "preferred pronouns."

That’s the point. To make it more “normal”.

Why shouldn’t it be “normal”?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

This was my question.

Why wouldn't they?

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What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

Because there is nothing normal about having to state one's "preferred pronouns."

That’s the point. To make it more “normal”.

Why shouldn’t it be “normal”?

Because it's not. If I have to explain that you, well, I'm sorry for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Idk if I trust a Fox journalist but here is a link to a statement that says the student been placed on leave:

It was not intentional.

She didn’t even do the second stick.

I think it is up for debate whether the first stick that didn’t work was an intentional mis-stick. But obviously she will claim it wasn’t as she is looking at the end of her time in medical school if she intentionally harmed a patient.

Honestly I’m not sure practically speaking if she should continue at all. She has appalling judgment. The Tweet will never go away. She needs to fully change her name if she wants to get matched in residency.

I agree with her that pronoun badges are inclusive (as in, I am probably in her side for trans issues) but I wouldn’t want her anywhere near my medical care. The dedication to pronoun badges over competent patient care shows that she’s not able to give good care. Of course, there is a long history of doctors prioritizing their own beliefs over patient care (trans people themselves are victims of this) but we don’t have to make the problem worse when we have hard evidence of a probable bad doctor. I think the ideal outcome here is that she realizes on her own that she isn’t cut out for medicine.

This definitely. I think it was inappropriate of the patient to mock her pin, but unfortunately medical care providers have to learn to deal with a lot of terrible behaviour (sick people and their stressed out family members aren't exactly known for being reasonable) and provide good care nonetheless. Hopefully she will find a field she is better suited to.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

This was my question.

Why wouldn't they?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

In general I don’t have an issue with showing preferred pronouns, but as a woman who works in an extremely male-dominated field where I am often the only woman in the room, I experience expectations to emphasize pronouns up front as yet one more way to “other” me in my field. In meetings where people list their pronouns up front (thankfully not common but more often than before), I’m often the only she/her and it feels very isolating. I really dislike the experience and I find it subtly changes the dynamics in a way that isn’t positive.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

This was my question.

Why wouldn't they?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

In general I don’t have an issue with showing preferred pronouns, but as a woman who works in an extremely male-dominated field where I am often the only woman in the room, I experience expectations to emphasize pronouns up front as yet one more way to “other” me in my field. In meetings where people list their pronouns up front (thankfully not common but more often than before), I’m often the only she/her and it feels very isolating. I really dislike the experience and I find it subtly changes the dynamics in a way that isn’t positive.

This is a patient-facing field?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

This was my question.

Why wouldn't they?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

it's ridiculous and most of the time unnecessary. if someone asked me my pronouns I'd think you were implying I look butch or like a man or something. Some people purposely choose to look androgynous and that's fine. They can specify they/them if they want. 99% of the population have gender identities that fit how they look and asking their pronouns is a dig that you think they don't look masculine or femine or whatever. It's like asking a straight person if they're trans.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

This was my question.

Why wouldn't they?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

Because there is nothing normal about having to state one's "preferred pronouns."

That’s the point. To make it more “normal”.

Why shouldn’t it be “normal”?

Because it's not. If I have to explain that you, well, I'm sorry for you.

You do have to explain it. BC you're being unnecessarily hateful. Why do you think you get to tell someone else what's "normal" for what they prefer to be called? Just b/c it makes you uncomfortable?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

This was my question.

Why wouldn't they?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

Because there is nothing normal about having to state one's "preferred pronouns."

That’s the point. To make it more “normal”.

Why shouldn’t it be “normal”?

Because it's not. If I have to explain that you, well, I'm sorry for you.

Yes, please explain. What’s wrong with sharing preferred pronouns?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

This was my question.

Why wouldn't they?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

Because there is nothing normal about having to state one's "preferred pronouns."

That’s the point. To make it more “normal”.

Why shouldn’t it be “normal”?

Because it's not. If I have to explain that you, well, I'm sorry for you.

You do have to explain it. BC you're being unnecessarily hateful. Why do you think you get to tell someone else what's "normal" for what they prefer to be called? Just b/c it makes you uncomfortable?

I’m not the PP but as explained above, it can be an extremely othering and intrusive experience for people who are women in male dominated spaces. Demanding pronoun identification isn’t something people universally experience as inclusive.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

This was my question.

Why wouldn't they?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

In general I don’t have an issue with showing preferred pronouns, but as a woman who works in an extremely male-dominated field where I am often the only woman in the room, I experience expectations to emphasize pronouns up front as yet one more way to “other” me in my field. In meetings where people list their pronouns up front (thankfully not common but more often than before), I’m often the only she/her and it feels very isolating. I really dislike the experience and I find it subtly changes the dynamics in a way that isn’t positive.

This is a patient-facing field?

No, not patient facing. I imagine there could be similar dynamics in a patient facing field but I have no personal experience with it so don’t know.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

This was my question.

Why wouldn't they?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

In general I don’t have an issue with showing preferred pronouns, but as a woman who works in an extremely male-dominated field where I am often the only woman in the room, I experience expectations to emphasize pronouns up front as yet one more way to “other” me in my field. In meetings where people list their pronouns up front (thankfully not common but more often than before), I’m often the only she/her and it feels very isolating. I really dislike the experience and I find it subtly changes the dynamics in a way that isn’t positive.

This is a patient-facing field?

No, not patient facing. I imagine there could be similar dynamics in a patient facing field but I have no personal experience with it so don’t know.

So do you work with a lot of strangers? Clients? Customers?

A pin might not be as helpful for you if you’re not meeting a bunch of new people every day.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

This was my question.

Why wouldn't they?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

Because there is nothing normal about having to state one's "preferred pronouns."

That’s the point. To make it more “normal”.

Why shouldn’t it be “normal”?

Because it's not. If I have to explain that you, well, I'm sorry for you.

You do have to explain it. BC you're being unnecessarily hateful. Why do you think you get to tell someone else what's "normal" for what they prefer to be called? Just b/c it makes you uncomfortable?

I’m not the PP but as explained above, it can be an extremely othering and intrusive experience for people who are women in male dominated spaces. Demanding pronoun identification isn’t something people universally experience as inclusive.

Who is “demanding” pronouns? She was wearing a pin and the patient chose to comment on it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

This was my question.

Why wouldn't they?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

Because there is nothing normal about having to state one's "preferred pronouns."

That’s the point. To make it more “normal”.

Why shouldn’t it be “normal”?

Because it's not. If I have to explain that you, well, I'm sorry for you.

You do have to explain it. BC you're being unnecessarily hateful. Why do you think you get to tell someone else what's "normal" for what they prefer to be called? Just b/c it makes you uncomfortable?

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PP won’t say it out loud because she knows she’s hateful and wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

This was my question.

Why wouldn't they?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

Because there is nothing normal about having to state one's "preferred pronouns."

That’s the point. To make it more “normal”.

Why shouldn’t it be “normal”?

Because it's not. If I have to explain that you, well, I'm sorry for you.

You do have to explain it. BC you're being unnecessarily hateful. Why do you think you get to tell someone else what's "normal" for what they prefer to be called? Just b/c it makes you uncomfortable?

I’m not the PP but as explained above, it can be an extremely othering and intrusive experience for people who are women in male dominated spaces. Demanding pronoun identification isn’t something people universally experience as inclusive.

Who is “demanding” pronouns? She was wearing a pin and the patient chose to comment on it.

Public school teachers are demanding / teaching pronoun BS to kids. But you already knew that.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are doctors/med students wearing pronoun pins, anyway? Is it part of a class on virtue signaling?

This was my question.

Why wouldn't they?

+1

What’s wrong with pronoun pins?

When was the last time you saw a doctor wearing anything on scrubs/lab coat other than a name tag/ID or maybe a stethoscope. What possible purpose does announcing pronouns to someone who didn't ask serve?

Maybe it's different because I'm in Peds, but most doctors and nurses have fun pins on their coats/sweaters/scrubs. Also, at least at my hospital, you can get a new ID badge with your pronouns under your name if you want.

The purpose of everyone stating their pronouns is to make it more mainstream and normalized. That way trans and nonbinary individuals don't have to feel like outsiders when they let someone know that they have preferred pronouns. Using the correct pronouns, IMO, is just a normal level of respect. Kind of like not calling an Amanda 'Mandy' if they ask you not to or not taking someone's (complex to you) ethnic name and saying "I can't say that so I'm going to call you Sunny!"

And this, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with it.

Why? What’s wrong with normalizing preferred pronouns?

Because there is nothing normal about having to state one's "preferred pronouns."

That’s the point. To make it more “normal”.

Why shouldn’t it be “normal”?

Because it's not. If I have to explain that you, well, I'm sorry for you.

You do have to explain it. BC you're being unnecessarily hateful. Why do you think you get to tell someone else what's "normal" for what they prefer to be called? Just b/c it makes you uncomfortable?

I’m not the PP but as explained above, it can be an extremely othering and intrusive experience for people who are women in male dominated spaces. Demanding pronoun identification isn’t something people universally experience as inclusive.

Who is “demanding” pronouns? She was wearing a pin and the patient chose to comment on it.

Public school teachers are demanding / teaching pronoun BS to kids. But you already knew that.

It’s off topic here but where are teachers “demanding” pronouns?