{"id":10406,"date":"2024-02-18T18:22:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T12:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/elderly-woman-fired-from-volunteer-position-after-asking-what-pronouns-meant\/"},"modified":"2024-02-18T18:22:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T12:52:16","slug":"elderly-woman-fired-from-volunteer-position-after-asking-what-pronouns-meant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/elderly-woman-fired-from-volunteer-position-after-asking-what-pronouns-meant\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Woman Fired From Volunteer Position After Asking What Pronouns Meant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>An elderly California woman claims she was \u201cfired\u201d from her volunteer position of 60 years after she asked what pronouns meant.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/02\/15\/us-news\/calif-volunteer-fran-itkoff-90-forced-out-of-ms-society-job-for-asking-about-pronoun-usage\/\">from<\/a> The New York Post:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Fran Itkoff, the 90-year-old leader of the Lakewood\/Long Beach Self-Help Group, was told her organization would no longer be affiliated with the National MS Society after her \u201cfailure to abide by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion guidelines.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Itkoff, who has won multiple awards for her and her husband\u2019s work with the organization, became confused one day after she saw several people sign their emails and letters with their names along with their chosen pronouns.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI was confused, I didn\u2019t know what it was, what it meant,\u201d Itkoff\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SAFG4YGK-0I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told the social media account Libs of TikTok.\u00a0<\/a>\u201cI\u2019ve seen it on a couple of letters that had come in after the person\u2019s name they had the pronouns, but I didn\u2019t know what that meant.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Itkoff was confused about how the \u201cshe\/her\u201d pronouns could be labeled as \u201call-inclusive\u201d if it was referring to females and not males.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A few days after the conversation, on a Friday at 4:58 p.m. Itkoff received her \u201cpink slip.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAt the end of the day, end of the week, I got an email from her saying \u2018they were sorry, but they had to ask me to step down as a volunteer for the MS society,\u201d Itkoff claimed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe verbiage she said was you didn\u2019t abide by their diversity, equity and inclusion, so they had to ask her to step down and she can\u2019t be a part of the MS society as a volunteer.\u201d Itkoff\u2019s daughter Elle Hamilton said.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/elderly-woman-fired-from-volunteer-position-after-asking-what-pronouns-meant\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly California woman claims she was \u201cfired\u201d from her volunteer position of 60 years after she asked what pronouns meant. Reporting from The New York Post: Fran Itkoff, the 90-year-old leader of the Lakewood\/Long Beach Self-Help Group, was told her organization would no longer be affiliated with the National MS Society after her \u201cfailure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}