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Navy doctor fired after right-wing activists find pronouns on social media

https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2025/09/12/san-diego-navy-doctor-fired-after-right-wing-activists-find-pronouns-on-social-media
2•saubeidl•1h ago

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austin-cheney•1h ago
That article is silly. The defense secretary cannot arbitrarily fire people like this. He can have a 15-6 investigation opened though, but that is a long way from a firing. To arbitrarily fire an officer there has to be some immediate violation of law or gross harm with exigencies.

Where these immediate firings occur for senior officers is typically a failure of performance in a command position that results in some other greater failure, but this is beyond rare, even in combat.

ggm•8m ago
I want to agree with you regarding the rule of law, but what is being observed is a sea change in how command structure from the WH and cabinet out to federal departments works.

The subject's employment status now is a function of a command chains willingness to enact a decree from the secretary, as against the willingness of the subject to seek redress in law, and then the consequences in chain of appeal processes and the consequent reaction from all parties.

For the right payout the subject could acquiesce. For the right risk to their entitlement likewise. The cost of law is extreme. You're not entirely wrong about times past except "don't ask don't tell" times has some prior art in how command reacts to this kind of reversal of policy.

Am I right in thinking even declaring your pronouns align to a binary model and your birth certificate, is now dangerous, the act of expressing, that you have pronouns, is functionally forbidden? The word cannot be used, in any capacity officially or in social media or records online?

Is Ms going to be banned?

reify•13m ago
I have probably been living under a rather large stone. I dont watch TV or have any social media and had no idea of pronouns.

This article inspired me to find out what pronouns were/are.

What are they/them, xe/xem, ze/zim, sie/hir, and other gender-neutral pronouns?

Its so confusing.

https://www.them.us/story/gender-neutral-pronouns-101-they-t...

Due to the narcissistic nature of pronouns, I have decided that I am going to take an idea out of Freud's first book and steal it.

(I/super I/It)

that's me that is.

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