Conference I'm going to gives out "ally" ribbons. They're free to take.

Queer scientists have raised issues with this in the past, especially with stories of people wearing the ribbons doing things like repeatedly misgendering a speaker they were introducing.

This year they sent us an e-mail saying that they were resolved to still hand out the ribbons, but just in case, they would also hand out a flyer WITH the ribbons with instructions of how to be respectful of queer people.

... SMH (literally)