Summary

Federal employees at multiple agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from email signatures by Friday, following executive orders signed by Donald Trump to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

Agencies including the CDC, Department of Transportation, and Department of Energy issued directives citing the new policy.

Some employees expressed frustration, with one CDC worker calling it unprecedented.

The Office of Personnel Management also instructed agencies to disable pronoun prompts in email systems, marking another step in Trump’s broader rollback of DEI initiatives.

  • GaMEChld@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Actually you bring up an interesting point. No one generally has an issue with ‘I’. I suppose that’s because no one has gone batshit enough to try and convince people they don’t exist. What’s the opposite of I?

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      23 minutes ago

      Pronouns are a standard part of English. Not using them will make language more precise but harder to read. “we” or “they” are likely what you are looking for as an opposite. Though strictly “not I” is the opposite