Elderly California woman, 90, is FIRED from her volunteering position of 60 years at MS nonprofit because she ‘did not understand a colleague’s preferred personal pronouns’
Fran Itkoff, 90, says she was forced to step down from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society because she did not understand what pronouns meant
Itkoff had volunteered for the nonprofit support group for multiple sclerosis patients for 60 years
An email from the group accused her of violating the MS Society’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion guidelines
90-year-old California woman was fired from her volunteering position at the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society because she ‘did not understand pronouns,’ despite previously winning multiple awards from the nonprofit group.
Fran Itkoff had been volunteering for the MS Society, a nonprofit support group for multiple sclerosis patients, for 60 years before she was removed.
Although her dedication to the MS Society had been recognized over the years, the group recently forced her to step down after she asked what pronouns meant.
‘I was confused. I didn’t know what it was and what it meant,’ Itkoff said of her first reaction when she was asked to use pronouns in her email signature.
Itkoff’s husband, a patient with MS, was running the Long Beach Lakewood MS support group before he died 20 years ago, she said in an interview with the Libs of TikTok.