Federal Workers Ordered to Remove Gender Identity From Email Signatures

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The instructions to employees aimed to fulfill orders from the Trump administration, which told agency heads to remove all references to gender identity from official materials by 5 p.m. Friday.

Federal workers have been instructed to remove any reference to their identifying pronouns from their email signatures and other forms, as agency and department leaders work to follow President Trump’s executive order to scrub all references to gender ideology in official government materials by 5 p.m. Friday.

“All employees are required to remove any gender identifying pronouns from email signature blocks,” instructions to State Department employees read, in an email they received Friday. Workers at agencies including the Labor Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs received similar directives.

The instructions to medical staff at some Veterans Affairs facilities also articulated how references to gender would have to be excised on forms: “The use of GENDER is not allowed on any form. We can only use SEX, and there should be only 2 options — MALE and FEMALE.”

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