Tue Jul 5, 2022 – 11:42 am EDTTue Jul 5, 2022 – 11:43 am EDT
(Reclaim The Net) – British bank Halifax has threatened to close customer accounts and even report people to police if they post “inappropriate” content to the bank’s social media channels.
Halifax has been facing online backlash over the last week after the bank told people to close their accounts if they do not like the bank’s new pronoun policy on staff badges.
On Tuesday, the bank tweeted to its over 100,000 followers that it had a new policy to allow pronouns to be featured under staff’s names on their badges.
The tweet was a photo of a badge of an employee called “Gemma,” and had her preferred pronouns, “she/her/hers.” The bank wrote that “pronouns matter” and that the policy would help avoid “accidental misgendering.”
Pronouns matter. #ItsAPeopleThing pic.twitter.com/vj9UdlBnLy
— Halifax (@HalifaxBank) June 28, 2022
A customer replied: “There’s no ambiguity about the name ‘Gemma.’ It’s a female person’s name. In other words, it’s pathetic virtue signaling and is seen as such by almost everyone who has responded to the initial tweet. Why are you trying to alienate people?”
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