LET’S STOP ENABLING THIS: ‘Gender neutral’ employee quits, then sues former bosses for $518,000 because they called her ‘lady’.

When she applied to work at the Bon Appetit Management Company, a corporate catering service, she says she purposely left the boxes beside “male” and female” on the application form unchecked, but the company never mentioned the omission.

Jones claims her coworkers repeatedly referred to her as “miss,” “lady,” and “little lady” even after she told them she believes she is “not a female or a male” and asked them to use gender neutral words when speaking to or about her. According to the suit, her coworkers failed to do so, insisting that she “looked like a woman” and comparing her to a female celebrity whom they believed looked similar to Jones.

The suit states Jones asked her bosses to require all employees to attend a diversity training session focused on gender identity issues, but the request went unheeded. Jones also claims she complained to human resources, but was never contacted in return.

Jones “cried regularly at work and at home” over her fellow employees’ refusal to embrace her androgynous identity, according to the lawsuit. After a few months, she quit.

Now, she is suing the company for $18,682 in wages and benefits she believes she would have received if she had not quit, plus an additional $500,000 for “humiliation and suffering.”

So, she wanted to be called “it”?