NEW: White House Will ‘Ignore’ Reporters With Gender Pronouns In Email Signature

The White House will be ignoring reporters whose email signatures contain their “preferred” gender pronouns, an administration spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.

Earlier this week, New York Times reporter Michael Grynbaum said the White House press office has “on three recent occasions” rejected emails from reporters who display gender pronouns. He went on to attribute the policy directly to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

“As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,” Leavitt told a Times reporter with pronouns in their signature, who had asked a question about a climate research facility.

The reporter referenced another instance in which Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) senior advisor Katie Miller allegedly refused to answer a pronoun-using reporter’s question about DOGE’s records.

“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,” Miller told the reporter. She added that this applies to all media members “who have pronouns in their signature.”

Grynbaum then reached out to Leavitt for comment, asking whether these responses are part of an official press office policy. “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,” the press secretary replied via email.

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White House communications director Steven Cheung also issued a comment on the policy with an added swipe at 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,” he said.

Grynbaum also reported that employees with other media outlets have received similar responses from the White House if they too sign off their emails with “preferred pronouns.”

In one example, Crooked Media reporter Matt Berg ran an “experiment” where he inserted pronouns into his email signature in order to see whether the White House would respond. Berg confirmed to the Times that he received a similar response to the others.

“I find it baffling that they care more about pronouns than giving journalists accurate information, but here we are,” the reporter fumed.

Shortly after taking office, President Trump ordered all federal employees to stop displaying gender pronouns in emails and official government documents. “Pronouns and any other information not permitted in the policy must be removed from CDC/ATSDR employee signatures by 5 p.m. ET,” Jason Bonander, the CDC’s Chief Information Officer, told employees back in January.