Federal employees were reportedly informed that they must stop including their pronouns at the end of emails, one of President Donald Trump’s latest actions to root gender ideology and diversity, equity and inclusion policies out of the federal government.
ABC News reported on the memo, which gave employees until 5 p.m. EST Friday to make the change, which applies not just to emails but all federal communications.
The memo appears to have gone out across multiple federal agencies and comes as a result of Trump’s executive orders last week.
An executive order from Trump’s first day in office declaring male and female as the only two sexes hinted at this coming change.
From the order:
Each agency and all Federal employees shall enforce laws governing sex-based rights, protections, opportunities, and accommodations to protect men and women as biologically distinct sexes. Each agency should therefore give the terms “sex”, “male”, “female”, “men”, “women”, “boys” and “girls” the meanings set forth in section 2 of this order when interpreting or applying statutes, regulations, or guidance and in all other official agency business, documents, and communications.
Agencies shall remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications, or other internal and external messages that promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology, and shall cease issuing such statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications or other messages.
Federal workers often include a wide range of gender and pronoun information as part of their email signature with increasing frequency under the Biden administration. Pronoun usage in the federal government had become a common practice and way for employees to signal their support for progressive gender ideology.
Trump has signed several executive orders along the same lines since taking office, from removing DEI employees to defunding all DEI efforts to removing transgender people from the military.
