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.”
