Trump administration refuses to speak to journalists who publicly share their pronouns

The Trump administration is trying to deflect criticism by refusing to respond to journalists who have their pronouns listed publicly.The White House has said that any reporter using pronouns in their email signature or elsewhere on their public profiles would be ghosted.At least three separate incidents have occurred in the past few weeks in which government spokespersons refused to engage with reporters because they listed pronouns in their email signatures.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt (she/her) told The New York Times, who had asked for a comment on the rumoured planned closure of a climate research observatory, that it was a “matter of policy” that press aides did not respond to queries from journalists with “pronouns in their bios”.Press secretary Karoline Leavitt took aim at journalists. (Getty)Department of Government Efficiency senior advisor Katie Miller (she/her) told another reporter that journalists with pronouns “ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts”.



The existence of pronouns in modern English appears to have become a difficult issue for conservatives, with many even seemingly misunderstanding their purpose.In February, as part of president Donald Trump’s (he/him) crackdown on inclusivity within the US government, agency employees were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures. Those who failed to do so faced “disciplinary action, including termination”, CNN reported.

Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring it national policy that there were only two sexes. (Getty)The directive was reportedly part of the government’s alignment with a presidential executive order, which required staff to use the term “sex” instead of “gender” and declared that it was federal policy that the US recognised only “two sexes, male and female”.Pressed on the pronouns policy, Leavitt told The New York Times that a journalist who uses them “clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story.

”Biological reality is a dog-whistle term used as an effort to erase trans and non-binary people by claiming that gender and sex are immutable. It ignores trans identities as well as the biological reality of intersex people.Leavitt continued: “If The New York Times spent the same amount of time actually reporting the truth as they do being obsessed with pronouns, maybe they would be a half-decent publication.

”Sarah McBride says pronoun-obsessed Republicans are trying to ‘distract’ from real issuesTrans lawmaker Sarah McBride (she/her) has said that Republicans who were aiming to make trans-exclusionary issues a mainstream talking point, were trying to distract from the real problems Americans were facing.In November, after being banned from using toilets in US Capitol building that correspond with her gender identity, McBride urged the public: “Look at what [Republicans] are doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatising social security and Medicare.”Sarah McBride has accused Republicans of using trans issue to deflect from their failings.

(Getty)More recently, she issued a response to “trans-obsessed” Republicans, saying that transphobic comments in her inbox “are up,” meaning that “the stock market is down”.Tariffs imposed by Trump sent the global market into turmoil earlier this week, prompting a trade war between the US and China, which the International Monetary Fund has warned could significantly damage international trade and business investments around the world.Trump took a step back on Wednesday (9 April), putting a hold on the tariffs to all countries except China, which had responded with an 84 per cent levy on US goods.

Some people have accused him of “blinking first”.The president said that countries that hadn’t retaliated would receive a blanket tariff of 10 per cent, which has been paused until July.PinkNews has contacted the White House for comment.

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