Hey now, you can still use punctuation!

Damn, with a username like that your garbage take makes it even easier to block your ass.

And what about tribal affiliation? How do you make that part ok?

What if you have a gender-neutral name and you're tired of being misgendered in emails?

I also work in government, and nobody would bat an eye if people started doing it. But then again I work in a sane place with generally sane people.

Bad take.. truely advocating for the devil here..

But that is just describing the current government format of your office. That is not a static thing, it's subject to change for any internal reason for any time. It's a specific policy not applicable outside of your specific government and essentially your workplace.

Even inside your government office if you have groups which are routinely not served by that model then essentially you create additional emotional or mental work burdens for some of your employees but not others. You being fine with that is simply your opinion. Your position in believing that these things are irrelevant are because to you that policy holds no barriers. But imagine if multiple people in your department brought forward that they were legitimately struggling with that policy and it was impacting how much mental fortitude it took to get through their work day. Would you join them in changing the policy? It's a similar question to if your co-worker in a wheel chair needed to take an additional 8 minutes partially outdoors to travel to the bathroom in your building because a set of tiny stairs. To you those stairs do not impact your work experience at all but to the person in the chair they might need to grab weather appropriate clothing for outside and regularly be in uncomfortable temperatures, or get wet in the rain or if they need to rush be forced to painfully hold their innards for the additional time simply because of a set of four stairs. Their experience of life at work requires additional personal fortitude because it's impacted in an outsized fashion because a ramp most people wouldn't even notice isn't there is not seen as needed. How much of your assertion of not requiring a ramp simply because you don't personally need one?

Critically Universities are not your government body and a level of personal comfort in their communications has been largely normalized. Pronouns in emails was common in a number of Acedemic circles and governing bodies long before they were known elsewhere. Universities are where the practice originates from and it's became increasingly normal. Why is it being cracked down on now?

Universities tend to be very much forward in general regarding accommodation policies because they tend to be where the discussions of ethical practice and theory are debated and new culture emerges. Consider that disability advocacy is a legacy of University based protests. Also that pronouns in emails have been a thing in some university campuses emails for almost a decade now. Whenever Universities communicate with each other the practice spread.

There's also a gap in the understanding you put forward about tribal affiliations. In the case of tribal affiliates a lot of them veiw themselves as essentially occupied nations under a foreign government. They aren't simply telling you their race or bloodline they are telling you what nation they actually belong to because the assumption of them as "Americans" (or innour case "Canadians") is incorrect. That visibility is vitality important to the cause of the people's of those nations who literally have faced erassure for centuries.

What's the point of comments like this? Truly... Are we in a vacuum? No? Then why even continue with whatever inane bullshit that came next?

Yeah dude perfect analogy. These people are doing this to promote solidarity and show that we're all the same and shouldn't be murdering each other. Totally comparable situation.