Federal workers told to remove pronouns from email signatures in Trump anti-DEI effort

Getting “pink-slipped” may soon take on a new meaning.Executive branch employees have been ordered to cut gender pronouns out of their email signatures, memos obtained by ABC News and other outlets show, apparently pursuant to anti-DEI executive orders President Trump signed soon after being sworn in as the 47th president.Agencies included in the directive — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Transportation Department and the Energy Department among them — informed workers to cut out the once-ubiquitous “he/him,” “she/her,” “they/them” and variations on such from communications, grant applications or other official documents, ABC reported.“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,” the message to CDC employees read.Department of Energy employees asked for DEI “language in Federal discourse, communications and publications” to be excised, according to ABC.The federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) also fired off a memo telling agencies to review “email systems such as Outlook and turn off features that prompt users for their pronouns.”The Post has reached out to OPM for comment.On Day One, Trump ordered an end to “radical and wasteful government DEI programs,” calling on OPM, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Justice Department to end “illegal” diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility “mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities.”He also took action to eliminate “gender ideology extremism” and restore “biological truth to the federal government,” declaring it “the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.”“These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality,” the second executive order stated.It added: “Agencies shall remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications, o...