Federal employees were instructed to remove pronouns from their email signatures by the end of the workday Friday, following an executive order from President Trump and guidance from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), according to internal memos obtained by The Hill.
Workers at the Labor, State, Transportation, Energy, and Health and Human Services Departments received similar directives, ABC News reported. Labor Department employees were also told to remove nicknames, a rule critics say targets transgender workers who have not legally changed their names.
A Labor Department supervisor had previously warned employees to remove pronouns, fearing they could be targeted by the new administration.
The order is part of broader executive actions signed by Trump on his first day back in office, which also placed employees working on gender-related policies on leave and restricted transgender workers from using facilities aligning with their gender identity.
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