The Royal Navy has issued guidelines urging its personnel to use inclusive pronouns and address issues like white privilege. The Telegraph has the story.
Royal Navy personnel are being told to introduce themselves with their pronouns before meetings in official guidance seen by the Telegraph.
A guide on trans and non-binary awareness tells staff: “Introducing yourself with your pronouns at the start of meetings and interactions is a good way to be inclusive.”
The guidance, available on the Royal Navy intranet, says: “Some people do not associate with gender binary and may use different pronouns like they/them or neo-pronouns like ze/hir/hirs. You should use the pronoun that a person shares with you.”
Navy staff are urged to “avoid micro-aggressions like backhanded compliments and unhelpful tips” and to “keep constantly educating and researching about trans matters”.
The Royal Navy advertised Ministry of Defence (MoD) diversity events for staff to attend on its intranet page for National Inclusion Week, which took place from Monday to Friday this week. The MoD encouraged staff “to actively participate in as many events as possible”.
The Navy trans guide also displays a “trans umbrella” that features different gender identities including gender neutral and pangender, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “a gender identity [that] encompasses multiple genders, which may be experienced simultaneously or in a fluid, fluctuating manner”.
Elsewhere, Royal Navy officers are told to brief sailors on white privilege and intersectionality, the idea that “different societal aspects (race, class, gender etc) of a person’s identity combine to create a unique experience of disadvantage or discrimination”.
A briefing note aimed at Navy personnel claims that “if you are ‘white’, whatever situation you are in, it is almost always the case that the outcome has not been affected by your skin colour”.
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Putin really going to be frightened now.
Peter the Great’s Russian Navy could probably defeat the current Royal Navy.
All they need now is a My Little Pony as their mascot. I think it’ll help their next recruitment drive. Nothing says ”Alpha Male” like a man in uniform with a strange preoccupation with rainbows.
Add the Spanish Armada to that.
I think the rainbow coloured ships could be a type of dazzle camourflage? 🙂
I’ve just found my new favourite person. Has anyone heard of Pat Condell? He speaks truth and is awesome in this 5min video. We can take the Mick out of the armed forces, police and others but actually, the sinister reality of which Pat speaks of here, is what these organizations are supporting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP0P3SzNk8c&ab_channel=PatCondell
He disappeared several years ago. I was surprised to see his return.
Exellent, and we all have a duty to ensure it happens.
Yes, predictably removed by YT so here he is on Twitter;
https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/1706366995824861580
Hello sailor?!
I can think of no better disincentive to recruitment than this shyte.
What an incredible insult to all the brave young men who have died with honour fighting for the freedoms we used to cherish.
Fishy, you are a murderous traitor.
Can a foreigner be a traitor?
Good point. I stand corrected.
F#@k me! The dis-armed services!
What next, rainbow flag camouflage on the sides of the Battle ships?
In the picture that bunch look more like playaway presenters than a serious fighting force!
“Hello everyone I’m Ms Seaman Staines and this is my friend Roger the Cabin Girl”
If everyone could just follow the example of this cat, we would soon end this nonsense:
https://twitter.com/TheGeneral_0/status/1706234295721787402
“Some people do not associate with gender binary and may use…neo-pronouns like ze/hir/hirs. You should use the pronoun that a person shares with you.”
Seriously?
Is there any recorded example anywhere of anyone ever seriously referring to anyone as ‘ze’ or ‘hir’ or ‘hirs’?
I am so sick to death of MY money being wasted on this nonsense.
Of all the people you’d think wouldn’t be taken in by this brainwashing, because of having more real and serious things to think about, the armed forces must surely be top of the list. So every time I see something like this, I feel a little bit more depressed. I like to think that the soldiers on the ground think it’s all ridiculous, but who knows.
Also, they may think that whiteness doesn’t affect outcomes, but they seem to be doing their level best to change this with diversity targets and jobs aimed only at minority groups. The answer to racism, as ever, is more racism.
What about greeting each other with “Hello sailor”!