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The Air Force says it's again allowing airmen and civilian employees to put their preferred personal pronouns in their email signatures and correspondence, backtracking on a Trump administration restriction after recognizing that a law exists protecting the practice.

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Air Force Backtracks on Banning Personal Pronouns from Email Signatures

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-- Military.com (@militarydotcom.bsky.social) April 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM

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...The Department of the Air Force, which includes the Space Force, announced Thursday it was scrapping the prohibition on pronouns as part of updated guidance on one of President Donald Trump's executive orders -- titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" -- that aimed to deny legal recognition of nonbinary and transgender people.

The news release said the "directive to cease the use of 'preferred pronouns' (he/him, she/her, or they/them) to identify one's gender identity in professional communications (email signature blocks, memoranda, letters, papers, social media, official websites and any [Department of the Air Force] official correspondence) is rescinded." ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 02:29 AM | Reply

Does this conflict with the Executive Order dictated by the Commander in Chief?

US federal workers ordered to remove pronouns from email signatures (January 2025)
www.theguardian.com

... Several federal government websites went dark while others were edited to remove mentions of gender on Friday evening as agencies scrambled to meet a deadline to scrub their websites, emails and contracts of "gender ideology".

The office of personnel management also directed agencies to disband employee resource groups, terminate grants and contracts related to the issue and replace the term "gender" with "sex" on government forms.

By Friday evening, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Census Bureau websites went dark. Navigating to the websites turned up blank pages that said: "The page you're looking for was not found." Other agencies took down or altered specific websites. The Bureau of Prisons renamed a website titled "inmate gender" to "inmate sex" and no longer included a list of trans inmates. ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 02:36 AM | Reply

 

Is the Air Force provoking a Constitutional crisis?

I wish I knew.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 02:37 AM | Reply

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