Trump’s Press Team Won’t Respond to Emails With ‘Preferred Pronouns’ in Signature

Reporters often contact government officials to request statements or quotes on significant events or policies, but President Donald Trump’s press deputies have determined that one group of journalists won’t be getting a response to their emails.

According to The New York Times, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and other Trump administration communications officers have implemented a policy effectively ignoring emails from journalists who include their “preferred pronouns” in their email signatures.

Leavitt explained, “As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios.” She added, “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.” Responding to The New York Times’ report on social media, the press secretary quipped, “Fact Check: True.”

The New York Times noted several instances when “senior Trump press aides have refused to engage with reporters’ questions because the journalists listed identifying pronouns in their email signatures.” The outlet claimed that the “widespread” practice of including preferred pronouns in email signatures is a means of “clarifying one’s gender identity and conveying inclusivity and solidarity for transgender and nonbinary individuals.”

White House communications director Steven Cheung told The New York Times, “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.”

Katie Miller, wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and spokeswoman for the Department of Government Efficiency, told journalists, “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.”

While the Trump administration has not confirmed whether or not this is an official administration-wide policy, Trump’s presidential campaign account on X claimed, “It is official White House policy to IGNORE reporters’ emails with pronouns in the signature.”

In comments to The Washington Stand, Family Research Council Senior Fellow Meg Kilgannon, a former public relations expert at the conservative Creative Response Concepts firm, said, “With the number of requests for comment and information the White House gets, not responding to people with pronouns in their signatures is a great way of attempting to identify nonhostile or less hostile media. It’s the job of the communications teams to amplify the president’s message.”

She explained, “Given his policies on gender, it’s reasonable to assume that reporters who are using pronouns are not on board with the agenda and aren’t likely to give fair coverage to the president, regardless of the topic.” Kilgannon added, “It also should cause reporters to remove the pronouns, which is important for healing our culture from gender insanity.”

Joseph Backholm, senior fellow for biblical worldview at Faily Research Council, told The Washington Stand, “Our sex is determined by function of our birth not our feelings, so it’s obviously better to have an administration that acknowledges reality rather than fights against it. Leadership that can’t acknowledge the fundamentals are incapable of leading in the direction of human flourishing.”

He continued, “We can’t only talk to people who agree with us. However, when someone has pronouns in their bio, they have already told you they don’t care about the truth so it’s understandable that someone might decide engaging with them is not a good use of their time.” Backholm added, “The purpose of debate and argument is to find the truth, but once you’ve told me you don’t care about the truth and will believe whatever makes you happiest, we don’t have the same goals.”

The press policy comes amidst the president’s ongoing commitment to defending and promoting “the biological reality of sex.”

On his first day back in the White House, the president signed an executive order stating, “The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself.”

The order continued, “This unhealthy road is paved by an ongoing and purposeful attack against the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts.”

Originally published by The Washington Stand

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