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by norea-armozel 4012 days ago
What if the team lead is transgender? Seriously, you need to take into account that there's another human on the end of the screen. This whole mess isn't an easy "separate politics from work" sort of thing. Folks like Elia I will never work with or for due to their beliefs. I've dealt with that in other workplaces and found my productivity plummet since I had to worry about being a target for harassment for being transgender. So, no it doesn't work in the real world.
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> What if the team lead is transgender?

What if the team lead is a reproductive rights activist who doesn't like Elia's avowed anti-abortion stance?

> Seriously, you need to take into account that there's another human on the end of the screen.

I'm not a sociopath and I don't appreciate you painting me like one. Interestingly, if you applied that in the other direction you might find that Elia is a person on the other end of the screen and shouldn't be callously dismissed because he holds views you don't like.