White House does not ‘respond’ to reporters’ requests with pronouns included

White House press chief Karoline Leavitt and senior government efficacy advisers have rejected requests from reporters that included pronouns in email signing boxes.

News of communications between the journalist and the two senior officials were reported by The Times on Tuesday. This, when it reached the comment, the White House refused to directly say whether the response to journalists represents a new formal policy for the White House Press Office or whether practices have begun.

“Reporters who choose to place their favorite pronouns in the bio can’t trust writing honest stories because they clearly don’t care about biological reality or truth,” Leavitt told The Times.

Katie Miller, a senior advisor to the Government Efficiency Bureau, responded, “We don’t respond to people who use pronouns in signatures to show that they ignore scientific reality and therefore ignore facts.”

In an email to the paper, Stephen Chen, White House Communications Director, wrote:

A Crooked Media reporter who received an email similar to what the Times reporter received said, “I think it’s confusing that they care more about pronouns than providing accurate information to journalists, but here we are.”

The practice of adding pronouns to the Asocial Media BIOS or outgoing email signature boxes was a major sticking point for President Donald Trump’s second administration since inauguration.

On the first day, the White House issued an executive order that provided that the federal government perceives gender as a binary that is constantly linked to birth sex. The definition excludes the presence of intersex and transgender individuals.

For these reasons, the President issued another order, including instructions, through the Personnel Management Bureau, through the Federal Workforce. Their emails do not have pronouns.

In recent years it has become common to see emails with “her/she” or “he/he” next to the sender’s name, title, organization, organization, conservative politician and media figures.

However, there are any number of alternative explanations as to why practice got caught up. For example, cisgender women may have gender neutral names like Jordan and may want to include “her” to avoid confusion.

A Times spokesman said, “Avoiding harsh questions certainly violates a transparent engagement with free and independent reporting. However, due to the format of email signatures, we refuse to refuse to answer a simple request to explain the administration’s policies, particularly for both the choice and the baffle choice of the US government’s best press.”