State Department forces pronouns on, misgenders employees

May 19, 2023

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By Shannon Longworth (Anchor), Ben Burke (Producer)

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According to a new policy, the State Department has begun forcing pronouns onto its employees. Not only this, but it appears the department is getting those pronouns wrong.

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On Thursday, May 18, the department implemented a mandatory policy that requires internal email exchanges to include pronouns. This policy on pronouns was brought up by Associated Press reporter Matt Lee during the daily State Department briefing.

“But the problem is that a lot of them or at least some of them so far, as I’ve been able to tell, are wrong! They’re giving the wrong pronouns! So men are being identified as women and women as men,” Lee said. “And this has nothing to do with whatever transgender or anything like that but it’s ridiculous.”

Deputy State Department spokesman Vedant Patel appeared to be blindsided by Lee bringing the change to the State Department’s policy on pronouns up, indicating that the change was new and not well-communicated within the department. Patel said he had no knowledge of the “phenomenon.”

“I don’t have a problem with doing it, and if people want to have their whatever pronoun attached to it it’s fine,” Lee went on to say. “But it should be a choice, right? No something that the State Department imposes on people, especially if its wrong.”

In a tweet, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller described the change to employee’s emails as “unintentional.”

“The State Department’s Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) is aware of the recent issues with user profiles on Microsoft Outlook and working to remedy the situation,” Miller tweeted. “This change was unintentional and the bureau is working to correct this immediately.”

Tags: Matthew Miller, Media Landscape, State Department, Vedant Patel

The Biden administration has been on a crusade against the misgendering of trans people.

Now — it appears the administration is not only forcing pronouns on its employees – but getting those pronouns wrong.

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On Thursday — the State Department implemented a mandatory policy that requires internal email exchanges to include pronouns.

However — there appeared to be some issues.

“But the problem is that a lot of them or at least some of them so far, as I’ve been able to tell, are wrong! They’re giving the wrong pronouns! So men are being identified as women and women as men. And this has nothing to do with whatever transgender or anything like that but it’s ridiculous.”

Deputy State Department spokesman Vedant Patel appeared to be blindsided by the reporter bringing this up — indicating that the change was new and not well-communicated within the department.

Patel had nothing to say when the reporter made this point.

“I don’t have a problem with doing it, and if people want to have their whatever pronoun attached to it it’s fine. But it should be a choice, right? No something that the State Department imposes on people, especially if its wrong.”

“I’ll look into this, I’m not aware. Thanks everybody, happy Thursday.”

In a tweet — State Department spokesman Matthew Miller blamed the snafu on quote “recent issues with user profiles on Microsoft Outlook” — saying the change to include pronouns was “unintentional.”