White House orders removal of gender-neutral pronouns in emails
American federal agencies must remove gender-neutral pronouns from email signatures. The White House's decision affects the Department of Transportation and the CDC, among others.
The White House ordered to remove gender-neutral pronouns from federal officials' email signatures. According to American media, this decision was conveyed to the Department of Transportation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employees.
Previously, American offices and schools recommended avoiding gender-specific terms such as "woman" or "man " and promoting neutral pronouns like "they" or "them." However, the new regulation mandates the removal of any references that "promote or instill gender ideology."
Pronouns and any other information not permitted in the policy must be removed from CDC/ATSDR employee signatures by 5 p.m. ET on Friday, as stated in the document.
Reactions to the new guidelines
On the first day of his new term, President Donald Trump signed orders aimed at "require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, accurately reflect the holder’s sex" and protecting women from radical gender ideology.
UPI reports that the instruction also mandates replacing the word "gender" with "sex" on the CDC website and in agency communications. The staff is also asked to "review email systems and disable features that prompt users to provide pronouns."
Trump also decided to withdraw gender-neutral pronouns from the military. Observers are wondering whether the president and his administration will choose to impose a ban on transgender individuals serving in the army and, if so, on what terms they will be discharged from service. Trump announced similar intentions during his first term, although he ultimately limited himself to freezing the recruitment of transgender people into the military. The Biden administration reversed this decision.
