An internal email revealed that US State Department employees must remove gender pronouns from their email signatures by Friday evening. This directive, issued by acting under-secretary Tibor P Nagy, is part of a wider review aimed at eliminating what he termed gender ideology from government communications. Similar orders have also been reported in other agencies, including the CDC and the Departments of Transportation and Energy. The department plans to extend this directive beyond email signatures, involving a comprehensive review of all trainings and programs related to gender issues in federal discourse.
The Department of State is reviewing all agency programs, contracts and grants that promote or incubate gender ideology, Nagy wrote in the email.
There are an estimated 77,840 staffers at the state department, but there is no way of knowing how many use a gender identifier on their email signature.
Nagy's memo went beyond email signatures, directing state department bureaus to review and revise trainings, forms and plans.
It comes just a week after Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, instructed in an internal cable obtained by the Guardian that applications requesting the use of the gender identity marker X for passports and official documents.
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