Hello all,
A coworker of mine (I'll call him David) decided they would like to be referred to with female pronouns and with a new, legally changed name (Sarah). I work in a large department and fortunately don't work closely with him all that much, but every two weeks or so I'll spend the better part of 5 hours working with him. I'm conflicted on how to approach this in a loving way while also not being seen as encouraging sin or perversions of God created genders/sexes. I read this the other day from Tim Bayly which I thought was good (https://warhornmedia.com/2019/12/12/email-signatures-and-pronoun-preferences/) though it doesn't touch directly on my quandary (though he notes I really do face the prospect of being fired for not toeing the progressive line).
Has anyone here dealt with this? After talking with my pastor and my wife, I'm inclined to use the name and pronouns he prefers and just show him Christian love and hopefully he sees the power the gospel has had in my life and accepts it into his. I still feel uneasy about the whole thing (though everyone I work with feels pretty uneasy about it but I want to approach this from a Christian point of view).
A coworker of mine (I'll call him David) decided they would like to be referred to with female pronouns and with a new, legally changed name (Sarah). I work in a large department and fortunately don't work closely with him all that much, but every two weeks or so I'll spend the better part of 5 hours working with him. I'm conflicted on how to approach this in a loving way while also not being seen as encouraging sin or perversions of God created genders/sexes. I read this the other day from Tim Bayly which I thought was good (https://warhornmedia.com/2019/12/12/email-signatures-and-pronoun-preferences/) though it doesn't touch directly on my quandary (though he notes I really do face the prospect of being fired for not toeing the progressive line).
Has anyone here dealt with this? After talking with my pastor and my wife, I'm inclined to use the name and pronouns he prefers and just show him Christian love and hopefully he sees the power the gospel has had in my life and accepts it into his. I still feel uneasy about the whole thing (though everyone I work with feels pretty uneasy about it but I want to approach this from a Christian point of view).