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It's also how I feel when I see pronouns in someone's email signature. It puts me on edge around that person and causes me to wonder what mindset led to them putting that there.

Ugh, yes. Same here. I've found it incredibly hard to regain that trust once I see that. I'm currently getting to know someone (friend of a friend, not romantic) who has her pronouns in all her bios and it's incredibly off-putting to me. But she seems very thoughtful and cares about women's health, and actually calls it that, not "uterus-havers' health" or whatever other insanity people are saying. So I'm hoping she falls into the category of "means well but has no idea what she's endorsing."

My therapist has them in her email signature and I let her know that's how I felt and that it diminished my ability to trust her.

Good for you! Did she stop doing that?

So I wonder if it's more virtue signaling or external pressure, or both.

Yeah, hard to say. My therapist rocks and was completely on board when I described the homophobia coming from the trans movement and how that's impacting me. So glad to have found a sane one... I was really careful about vetting therapists. If you want any suggestions, or just want to talk about it more, let me know! I'm always curious to hear about people's experience with therapists spouting this ideological nonsense. I think it's gonna be really hard for most LGB people to ever trust a therapist once knowledge of modern conversion therapy hits the mainstream... I wish ones like mine were way easier to find! I had to hunt for months.