We were delighted to read that Medical Education's publisher, Wiley, will be allowing authors to include pronouns in their bylines. 1 As Russel points out, a significant proportion of the population isLGBTQIA2S+, 2 and healthcare professionals are no exception. We agree that collecting sexual orientation and gender identity data is important to promote LGBTQIA2S+ representation-in this case, representation in scholarly discourse-but we believe Wiley's decision serves another, and perhaps more important, purpose. Allowing individuals to share their pronouns in email signatures, nametags, and bios Medicine,
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