This is a solid heuristic for weeding out the nonsense. Nonsense pronouns means nonsense questions and nonsense hit pieces.
The Trump White House has begun declining to respond to media requests from reporters who include gender pronouns in their email signatures. The move aligns with the administration's broader rejection of what it calls "gender ideology" in the federal government.
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"As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in an email to a New York Times reporter asking about climate research.
Katie Miller, a senior adviser at the Department of Government Efficiency, echoed that approach in a separate exchange, telling another Times journalist, "I don't respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts."
The policy reflects a broader Trump administration stance that has barred federal employees from listing preferred pronouns in government emails and cracked down on DEI-related practices across agencies.
JK Rowling tweeted: "Oh look, another of those things that never happen has happened again."
John Oliver embarrassed himself, as usual, this time by asserting that we can't ban boys from competing with girls in sports because we haven't done enough scientific studies yet to establish that boys have any physical advantages over girls.
He also mocked Payton McNabb, the girl who suffered permanent brain damage and partial paralysis due to having her face spiked in by a boy whose advantage in strength and power still hasn't been sufficiently proven by The Science (TM):