DEAR DEIDRE: A TRANSGENDER person has joined my team at work, and it’s causing confusion.
They insist on being called ‘they’ or ‘them’ but people keep getting it wrong and calling them ‘he’. I’ve even done it a few times by mistake.
I’m 34.
The new team member is very upset and says being misgendered is discriminatory. They’re 29 and have only recently come out as trans.
They worked for the company before in a different department, so everyone knew them as a man with a male name – which is one reason people keep slipping up.