US federal workers ordered to remove pronouns from email signatures

Internal email says agency is ‘reviewing’ programs and contracts that ‘promote or incubate gender ideology’

US state department employees must scrub gender pronouns from their email signatures by Friday evening, according to an internal email obtained by the Guardian, joining the list of other agencies reportedly sent a similar memo.

The directive came from former ambassador Tibor P Nagy, now the acting under-secretary for management, writing to staff that the department was also launching a comprehensive review to eliminate what he called “gender ideology” from government communications and programs.

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