Effectively banned after White House Edict Federal employee By disclosing their personal pronouns in the email signature, sources of many federal agencies say the pronouns are now happening Systematically blocked In many email clients and other software.
Wired confirmed various automated efforts with employees with United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), General service administration (GSA), and US Department of Agriculture.
The employees said on condition of anonymity, citing the apprehensions of vengeance.
Several agency directors sent emails to the employees in the weekend that President Donald Trump would remove pronoun capacity from Office 365, due to the executive order of Donald Trump. Employees were told that they would also need to extract pronouns from their email signature. Apply instructions.
An USAID employee states that in response to defining the sexes issued by President Trump in his first day by President Trump in response to executive orders, in response to executive orders. An employee of the GSA says the pronouns were wiped out of the email signature of the employees on Friday and they were no longer visible in the slack, the workplace messaging app.
Arrived for comment, the White House shifted the OPM Communications Director McLorin Pinover, who gestured 29 January memorandum Ordering agencies disable all features “” which indicate users for their pronoun. “
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The ban on personal pronouns follows the efforts of the White House to eliminate the programs that encourage diversity and social justice within the federal government, as well as other references to “diversity, equity and inclusion” in the discourse of federal employees Too.
In a striking example of policy in action, an image Last week surfaced A wall is being depicted at Quantico, Virginia, Academy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation due to listing “diversity” among the main values ​​of the bureau. (According to an email of integrity and compliance of the FBI office Obtained by Mother JonesThe bureau no longer counts “diversity” among its basic values.)
The Trump administration launched a radical campaign last week, aimed at motivating the federal workforce members to quit their jobs before threatening cuts. The effort is made by Elon Musk, which is made by the Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) leader Elon Musk, a task force that effectively controls the control of several federal agencies and sensitive government systems with clear withdrawal from the White House. Has seized
Wired said last week that Musk's dress had effectively captured Personnel management officeHuman Resource Department of US Government. In this and other efforts, it is employment Inexperienced youth engineer Those who are age from 19 to 24-many of these, show public records, are pre-intermen or are associated with musk-based companies.
OPM Email federal workers On 28 January, with the “deferred resignation proposal”, increasing the widespread confusion among the federal workers. (Dogi's own new HR chief was unable to answer basic questions about the proposal in a controversial staff meeting last week, Wired report.) In an email to employees on Sunday evening, OPM clarified whether the deferred resignation program complies with the existing privacy laws. “Yes,” read the answer. The deferred resignation program uses only basic contact information about federal employees, such as names and government addresses with short, voluntary email reactions. The information is stored on government systems. Due to the implementation of the Privacy Act, all the information relevant to the program is covered by existing OPM system record notice. ,
Multiple agency source Told Wired last week Many of Musk's lieutenants were provided access to the major computer systems controlled by the GSA, which was an independent agency assigned by the Congress to maintain federal buildings and support equipment, supply and IT.
Andrew Cott, Makena Kelly, and Zoe Shifar contributed to reporting.