For those who don't need all the inside baseball up front, jump to the lengthly footnote for the gist, which itself doesn't exactly get to the point: > ... Th

For those who don't need all the inside baseball up front, jump to the lengthly footnote for the gist, which itself doesn't exactly get to the point: > ... The policy is an update to the Code of Conduct that requires us to use people's preferred pronouns (when known). ... I completely agree that it is rude to call people what they don't want to be called; knowingly misgendering someone is not ok. But the policy was about positive, not negative, use of pronouns. I pointed out that ... [I] write in a gender-neutral way specifically to avoid gender landmines, and sought clarification that this would continue to be ok. To my surprise, other moderators in the room said that not using (third-person singular) pronouns at all is misgendering. The employee never clarified, and this is one of the questions I asked in email. In my email I said clearly that I'm on board with "use preferred pronouns when using pronouns", but from the fact that they fired me without warning (or answering the question), I conclude that that's not the policy. I haven't seen an actual policy, though I am being accused of violating it. Further condensing, moderator asked questions about proposed policy change requiring proactive use of people's preferred pronouns. These questions were not answered. After lengthy back-and-forth, moderator status was revoked.