Mailchimp CEO Pronoun Exit

A story about how Mailchimp's CEO left the company after writing a controversial email about pronoun policies.

"The CEO wrote an email to the staff about a trend he noticed in the workforce. New hires had to introduce themselves using their preferred pronouns. He said this was completely unnecessary for a woman who is clearly a woman to tell us that her pronouns are she and her, and a man who is clearly a man to tell us that his pronouns are he and him.

He understood the practice was rooted in kindness but said in the long run this approach does more harm than good because you're forcing people to behave a certain way, which is the opposite of inclusion.

He wrote there's a tiny number of people at Mailchimp who would consider themselves transgender, and forcing either with orders or guilt the other 1,390 people to adopt a new communication style that humanity has never had to use in our 300,000-year existence and 150,000 years of spoken language, in order to make things slightly more comfortable for an extremely small group of people, is completely illogical.

He stepped down as CEO shortly after. Someone later came out and said there was no policy that required pronouns in the first place."