Pronouns are forcibly deleted from government email signatures

After the White House Act effectively banned federal employees from disclosed its personal pronouns in the signature of email, sources in multiple federal agencies said that pronouns are now systematically blocked by multiple email clients and other software.

Wired confirmed that the US International Development Agency (USAID), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the General Service Administration (GSA), the Ministry of Agriculture and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Center (EPA) (EPA) (GSA) (GSA) (GSA) (GSA) (GSA) GSA) (CDC).

The employee talked to the connection with anonymous conditions, the reason was to worry about revenge.

Multiple agent directors send emails on weekends to tell employees that due to the administrative order of President Donald Trump, their offices will delete pronoun capabilities from Office 365. Employees have also told them that they need to delete pronouns from email signatures in order to meet the instructions.

A staff member of the US International Development Agency said that they officially discontinued their ability to listed pronouns last week, which was a response to the definition of the gender administrative order issued by President Trump on the first day of his tenure. The GSA staff said that after a few hours on Friday, it was not visible in the employee’s email signature, and it was no longer visible in the workplace message passing application Slack. On CDC, there was a part of the pronoun for employees to share their team information, which is another workplace application. This field no longer exists.

The White House published a comment and connected to the OPM Communication Director Mclaurine Pinover. He pointed to Memorandum on January 29 Ordering agents to disable all functions “pronouns to promote user pronouns.”

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The prohibition of personal pronouns is the plans to work hard to encourage the internal diversity and social justice within the White House, as well as other mentioned “diversity, fairness and inclusiveness” in federal employees’ words.

In the amazing example of the strategy in action, the image The water surfaced last week On a wall of the Federal Investigation Agency on a wall in Quantico, Virginia, the bureau listed “diversity” in the core value of the bureau. (Email at the Office of Integrity and Compliance Office of the Federal Investigation Bureau Obtained by Jones MotherThe bureau no longer lists its core values ​​as “diversity.” .

The Trump administration started a radical movement last week to promote federal labor members to leave work without threats. Elon Musk, the head of the so -called government efficiency department, led this effort to effectively control several federal institutions and sensitive government systems of the White House.

Wired reported last week that Musk’s clothing effectively took over the Personnel Management Office of the Human Resources Department of the US Government. In this and other jobs, it hires the age of less experienced young engineers from 19 to 24-public records that many of them are previous interns, or they have connected with Musk Anight Comparted Company.

OPM sent an email to federal workers on January 28 through the “deferred resignation offer”, which caused a widespread confusion of federal workers. (Wired report, Doge’s own new human resources leader cannot answer the basic questions about the proposal at a controversial employee meeting last week.) In the email to employees on Sunday evening, OPM clarified the postponement resignation plan Whether it is in line with the existing privacy law. “Yes,” the answer read. “The deferred resignation plan only uses basic contact information about federal employees, such as names and government addresses, and short voluntary e -mail to reply. This information is stored on the government system. The OPM system record notification covers all information related to the plan. “

Multiple agent sources told “Wired” last week that several Lieutenant Malacs were allowed to access key computer system controlled by GSA. GSA was responsible for supervising federal buildings and providing equipment, supply and IT support by Congress. Independent agency.

Andrew Couts, Makena Kelly, Leah Feiger and Zoëschiffer contributed reports.