Employees at multiple federal agencies have been asked to remove pronouns from their email signatures by this afternoon, ABC News reported citing internal memos. The memo is based on two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office ending DEI programs in the government. “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,” according to one such message sent Friday morning from Jason Bonander, the CDC’s Chief Information Officer. “Staff are being asked to alter signature blocks by 5.p.m. ET today (Friday, January 31, 2025) to follow the revised policy.”
It is not yet known which agencies received the memo as the report said that the transport department received a similar directive on Thursday when they were managing the emergency of the DC plane crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Energy department employees also received a similar notice Thursday and they were told that this was to meet requirements in Trumo’s executive order calling for the removal of DEI “language in Federal discourse, communications and publications”.
The memo also asked each agency to effectively institute trans bathroom bans.
Memo in line with Trump’s executive order
Donald Trump signed two executive orders calling for an and to what his administration called “radical and wasteful DEI programs” and seeking to restore the “biological truth to the federal government”. In one of those executive orders, each agency, or department of the government has been asked to terminate “to the maximum extent allowed by law” all DEI (diversity, equity, inclusivity) offices and positions.
The Trump administration has cracked the whip on federal workers and asked them to work from the office or to take a deferred resignation program in which they will get their pay and other benefits for eight months if they accept to resign by February 6.
