Trump’s administration officially prevented federal workers from recording their preferred pronouns in email signatures, calling the symptom of a wrong “gender ideology”.
Some White House officials follow a similar approach to the journalists who cover them.
In at least three recent cases, Trump Press’s senior assistants refused to deal with journalists’ questions because journalists list the pronouns in their email signatures.
“As a policy issue, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their BIOS,” the White House press secretary wrote to a New York Times journalist who had asked about the possible closure of a renowned climate observatory.
A few weeks earlier, Katie Miller, a senior adviser to the Department of Government Efficiency, refused to answer questions from other times, who asked about the legal status of the department’s archives.
“As a matter of politics, I do not respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures, as they show that they ignore scientific reality and therefore ignore the facts,” Miller writes in an email. He added to a separate message, “this applies to all journalists who have pronouns in their signature.”
The practice of incorporating pronouns, such as “he/he” or “they”, in email signatures and social media, has become widespread in recent years as a way of clarifying one’s own gender identity and the transfer of participation and solidarity.
Conservative politicians and experts were reset in practice as an example of what they thought the boat woke up and beheaded it as an attempt to normalize the concept that exist more than two biological tribes, male and females, the “scientific reality” in which Ms Miller appeared to be mentioned.
In contact with comments, administration officials do not immediately say whether their answers to journalists represented a new official policy of the White House Press Office or when the practice had begun.
“Any journalist who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their resume clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot trust a sincere story,” writes Leavitt, Press Secretary.
Steven Cheung, White House Communications Manager, wrote in an email: “If the New York Times spent the same time reporting the truth, as it is obsessed with the pronouns, it might be a half decent post.”
Practice seems to have spread beyond journalists in times. Matt Berg, a journalist at Crooked Media, who manages the Podcasts family “Pod Save America”, ran an experiment in mid -February after talking to another journalist who had received a similar response.
Mr Berg, who usually does not include pronouns in his email signature, added “(he/he)” in a message sent by Ms Miller, in which he asked a question about the administration’s policy on Ukraine. Received a almost literal answer.
“I think it is enigmatic that they are more interested in the pronouns than giving journalists accurate information, but here we are,” Mr Berg said in an email to the Times.
Trump’s administration has made transsexual issues at the center of its early policy agenda. President Trump has signed an executive order that states that there are two sexes, women and men, on his first day in office. The administration has since issued a series of politicians that prevent transsexual people from serving in the army, forbidden transsexual girls and women with transsexuals from competing with sports sports women and overthrowing protection by certain laws against discrimination. Many of these policies face legal challenges.
A Times spokesman said: “Avoiding difficult questions is certainly opposed to the transparent commitment to the free and independent press reference, but refuses to respond to a simple request to explain administration policies due to the formatting of an e -mail signature.
Shawn mccreesh They contributed reports.
