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Trump admin refuses to engage with reporters who include their pronouns in email signatures

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-admin-refuses-to-engage-with-reporters-who-include-their-pronouns-in-email-signatures/ar-AA1CBHhF?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=ccfc93bddb3e4f8799d7b680a01f5906&ei=70

Story by Ariana Baio (9 April 2025)

Following President Donald Trump's crackdown on transgender rights and gender ideology in the federal government, administration officials have seemingly taken steps to suppress reporters from using terminology that acknowledges the existence of non-binary or trans people.

That includes refusing to respond to reporter's emails when they include preferred pronouns in their signature such as "she/her" or "he/him" or "they/them."

"As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote a Times reporter.

The White House told The Independent in an email, "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."

Other Trump administration officials, including White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung and Department of Government Efficiency adviser Katie Miller, have sent similar responses to reporters with pronouns in their email signature.

"As a matter of policy, I don't respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts," Miller wrote in an email to a Times reporter, according to the outlet. She added in a separate message: "This applies to all reporters who have pronouns in their signature."

So, the administration, following the lead of course, are probably curtailing the work of Cis gendered folk too!

Bigotry at the highest level.

He-man must be royally screwed then. In spite of Trump thinking he's Master of the Universe. This is all so stupid.