Current Events > Trump admin is refusing to talk to journalists with pronouns in their email sigs

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Trump administration is refusing to talk to journalists with pronouns in their email signatures

The White House is trying to get journalists to stop including their pronouns in their email signatures by threatening to ghost those who do.

As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told the New York Times. She wrote that in response to a Times reporter who asked about a climate research observatory.

Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story, she added.

As a matter of policy, I dont respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts, Katie Miller of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE, which is not a real executive department) told another New York Times reporter who sent her a question about DOGEs record-keeping. This applies to all reporters who have pronouns in their signature.

In January, shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated, the administrations Office of Personnel Management told executive department and agency heads to remove references to gender ideology from all official documents, including emails.

All employees are required to remove any gender-identifying pronouns from email signature blocks by 5:00 PM today, a memo sent by a State Department official to department employees said at the time.

Trans people, allies, and progressives often include pronouns like he/him, she/her, or they/them in their email signatures in order to be referred to correctly by people they might not have ever met in person. This helps facilitate communication by reducing the chances that someone will be misgendered either because theyre transgender or nonbinary, their name isnt exclusive to one gender, or they are from a culture whose naming practices are often misunderstood by the dominant culture and does so in a way that is non-confrontational.

Some people who are unlikely to be misgendered may also include pronouns in their email signature as a sign of solidarity with trans and nonbinary people.

But conservatives have long been outraged by this practice because it is meant to show solidarity with trans people, who conservatives have devoted years to attacking. Pronouns in email signatures are a constant reminder that trans people exist and that there are people who support their equality.

Matt Berg of Crooked Media told the Times that he tested the White House policy on this. He doesnt usually have his pronouns in his email signature, but he added a (he/him) to it and emailed Miller a question about Ukraine policy. He got the same message back that the Times reporter did.

I find it baffling that they care more about pronouns than giving journalists accurate information, but here we are, Berg said.

But the administration has made attacking journalistic independence a key focus. The White House banned the Associated Press (AP) from press briefings and other events where the media is usually present after it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

The AP sued, and a federal judge ordered the White House to end its ban on AP journalists, citing the First Amendment.

The White House has not said whether it has a formal policy that all administration officials are following about journalists with pronouns in their email signatures or if Miller and Leavitt are just particularly bothered by pronoun-sharing.

It really doesn't take much to trigger these folks, huh

If the mere act of including a pronoun is ignoring biological reality then what's the point of pronouns at all?

HylianFox posted...

"As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns"

HylianFox posted...

"As a matter of policy, I dont respond to people who use pronouns"

Hey. Idiots.

Guess what those words are.

DrizztLink posted...

Hey. Idiots.

Guess what those words are.

Your post blatantly ignores biological reality.

Oh, grow the hell up, you absolutely useless Donnie sycophants. Your geriatric senile Dear Leader is over here crashing the economy and alienating all our allies, and this is the kinda pettiness you clowns want to get up to instead of representing your constituents.

HylianFox posted...

Pronouns in email signatures are a constant reminder that trans people exist

Is there a part of speech I can cut out of my life so I can forget conservatives exist?

Trump admin is a Baby Back Bitch.

The whole pronoun discourse is really dumb to me. I could understand being confused by neo pronouns and not liking the singular they/them but to get mad even with He/him and She her pronouns? It's just pathetic.

And they call us the snowflakes.

Watching this stupid fucking administration tripping over itself to service their bigoted dictator is like watching an orangutan pee into its own face.

creativerealms posted...

and not liking the singular they/them

Considering how every single person who whines about that uses the singular they/them on at least a weekly basis, not really.

And it's been like that for actual centuries.

Chaucer used the singular they/them and he technically didn't even write in fuckin' English.

Also it's not a "reminder trans people exist" it's a reminder that on the Internet you really can't know someone's gender unless they tell you. Pronouns are a way they can tell you.

Pathetic. Absolutely, pathetic. I hope these peoples children grow up to hate them.

So much for free speech.

Kami_no_Kami posted...

Pathetic. Absolutely, pathetic. I hope these peoples children grow up to hate them.

They arent. They are growing up addicted to Andrew Tate and becoming republicans

Boy, remember when dummies thought this guy was going to fix everything? Twice?

What a bunch of brainless, racist fucking morons they are.

https://youtu.be/Eu1ciVFbecw

Banned material in the White House

DrizztLink posted...

Hey. Idiots.

Guess what those words are.

No wonder they want to gut the Department of Education.

I seem to recall every dipshit running in the last election saying my pronouns are and then some shit that is definitely in their email signature.

Curious.

these people are so quick to overlook the practical application of including pronouns in your signature which is that sometimes you really just can't tell by looking at a person's name.

Umbreon posted...

https://youtu.be/Eu1ciVFbecw

Banned material in the White House

Also banned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seqaTuXkqFI

Nothing triggers Republicans like trans people fucking breathing.

Rika_Furude posted...

They arent. They are growing up addicted to Andrew Tate and becoming republicans

Elons and Kellyanne Conways daughters hate them, so theres hope for other to grow up to despise their parents.

Bitches.

As a matter of policy, we have the emotional maturity of 7th graders, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told the New York Times. Now, kindly excuse me, my friends and I are gonna ride our bikes to Kathys house and play some Minecraft.

Should've replied to her with something like "Understood, sir. Thanks for letting me know."

For some weird reasons MAGAs really hate when you don't use their preferred pronouns

Hexenherz posted...

these people are so quick to overlook the practical application of including pronouns in your signature which is that sometimes you really just can't tell by looking at a person's name.

Yes. I only put pronouns in sigs because I'm tired of people opening with "Ms." or writing about me ambiguously.

Knowing a person's pronouns is essential for a lot of names.

I hate these fuckers, so much. Pronouns are just so useful since names can be unisex, you morons. Pronouns just make everything easier especially if you never met the person.