Federal employees got a memo from the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) telling them to drop pronouns from their email signatures. The new move is all about pumping the brakes on what they call “gender ideology” across government offices.
The memo, obtained by ABC News pointed to a recent executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at stopping what’s labeled as “gender ideology extremism” and “restoring biological truth.” Each agency has until 5:00 p.m. on Friday to roll out the changes. Agency leaders must “send an email to all agency employees announcing that the agency will be complying with” the order. It also mandates each agency terminate any contracts that “promote or inculcate gender ideology.”
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“Review all agency position descriptions and send a notification to all employees whose position description involves inculcating or promoting gender ideology that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately as the agency takes steps to close/ end all initiatives, office and programs that inculcate or promote gender ideology,” another directive reads.
All offices are also required to take down “all outward-facing media” that promotes gender ideology and eliminate any email features that encourage users to show their pronouns.
An internal memo that ABC News got its hands on reveals that Jason Bonander, the chief information officer at the CDC, has instructed employees to ditch pronouns from their email signatures by 5:00 p.m. Friday.
“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,” Bonander wrote.
