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Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has done a 180 and apologised for telling a 90-year-old volunteer she was not welcome anymore because she had violated diversity guidelines by failing to disclose her pronouns.

As we highlighted last week, Fran Itkoff was dismissed by the charity over the matter despite having given 60 years of her life to volunteering.

Mrs Itkoff didn’t even understand what she was being asked to provide and merely expressed confusion over what was meant by pronouns.

Not only did the MS Society let her go, they doubled and tripled down on the decision in subsequent statements.

Now, however, after massive backlash, the organisation has finally relented.

In a long statement, the society claims it has said sorry “to our longtime, dedicated volunteer Fran Itkoff,” adding “We realise now that we made a mistake, and we should have had more conversations with Fran before making this decision.”

“We apologized to Fran directly and reached out to her to find a way to continue to work together,” the statement further noted, adding

Libs of TikTok, who broke the story, posted the statement:

This goes to show that speaking up against alphabet equity madness does pay off, and that these organisations will reverse course when they are shaken out of their bubbles and made aware that the majority of people won’t stand for nonsense.

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