President Donald Trump’s White House has decided to ignore all emails from reporters who include preferred pronouns as part of their email signatures, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated.
“As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,” Leavitt wrote in response to an inquiry from a New York Times reporter.
Leavitt is not the only Trump administration official who has adopted such a stance. According to a New York Times report, Katie Miller — senior adviser for the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project — has also issued a similar statement.
“As a matter of policy, I don’t respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts,” Miller said via email. In another message, she added, “This applies to all reporters who have pronouns in their signature.”
Leavitt also doubled down on the policy when The NYT requested a comment, saying via email, “Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story.”
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung took a similar tone, telling the outlet, “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.”
President Donald Trump and multiple officials have taken a hardline stance on radical gender ideology, declaring early in the administration via Executive Order that the United States federal government would only recognize two genders that align with the biological sexes.
The administration has also drawn a hard line on men in women’s spaces, particularly with regard to high school and collegiate athletics. Following an Executive Order barring males from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams, the Trump administration cut funding to schools that failed to comply, prompting a policy reversal in Maine.
Trump Education Secretary Linda McMahon stated the policy plainly via X, saying, “To all the entities that continue to allow men to compete in women’s sports and use women’s intimate facilities: there’s a new sheriff in town. The Trump Administration will not allow you to get away with denying women’s civil rights any longer.”
