Pronouns in some reporters’ email signatures get a stony response from Trump administration

Did you know that these email signatures are at the end of the messages? Those that include a set of information about messengers – phone numbers, addresses and social media handles. In recent years, consciences – allowing the recipient know that the sender passes “is” or “he” or “they” or anything else, a digital recognition that calls people to a set of gender identities.

Among those who do not agree with them are the president Donald Trump And members of his administration. They have taken what he calls “gender ideology” with measures such as an executive matter that requires the United States to recognize only two biologists, males and females. Federal employees were asked to take any signals to their consciences from their email signatures.

This situation seems to have spread beyond those who work for the government for those who cover it. According to some of the journalists’ accounts, officials in the administration refused to communicate with journalists who have pronouns listed in their signatures.

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that two of its journalists and one in another port had received responses from the administration officials to the emails that refused to communicate with them about the presence of consciences. In one case, a correspondent asked about the closure of a research observatory, an email response from Caroline Levitte, the White House press secretary, saying: “As a political issue, we do not respond to the correspondents with their conscience in their vital lives.”

It was not clear whether this was an official administration policy. Levitte did not respond to a request for comment.

In a statement to other news outlets, Levitt said, “Any reporter chooses to put their favorite consciences in his autobiography does not care about the reality or biological truth, and therefore it cannot be trusted in writing a honest story.”

Email signatures as a disagreement point

In her statement, the Times said, “Evading difficult questions is certainly inconsistent with transparent communication with free and independent press reports. But refusing to answer a direct request to explain management policies due to the formation of e -mail signing is a vibrant and spear selection, especially from the top of the government press office.”

Even words in email signatures can become another point of ideological dispute that is not in reality. Lauren Hall Lowe, a professor of dumping scholars at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, says that the words we use, the words that we do not do, and what we think we can say and cannot say to others and they are for us-representing a kind of “social signs”.

“The extent that talks about language and linguistic police are stronger and more political stability now will be just a reflection of the actual policy on Earth,” says Hall-Lee. “This is what the whole language – it’s communication. But because we communicate between people, because people are messy, then all the language becomes political.”

She says that conscience in the email signatures is not an exception. There was “a time if you had pronouns in your Sig files, assume that you are sexually transformed. We have come a long way in the sense that this is no longer the assumption of many people. It is more related to your political position on the issues of transgender people. This goal was in reality, in an attempt to make people who put a fierce to them.”

The Associated Press participated in its own dispute with White House officials, including language issues. Filed a lawsuit against Levitte and two White House officials in the reasons for the first amendment to exclude it from the events of the White House after the news agency decided not to follow Trump The executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico.

The American boycott judge spent Trefor N. Farvan, who was nominated by Trump in 2017, on Tuesday in favor of AP, saying that the government cannot take revenge on it. Liberation decisionAnd it is a decision that the White House said it would be attractive.