The State Department has created a new email feature to make email more inclusive for employees.

However a glitch in the system ended up misgendering employees and now they are traumatized and in need of counseling:

FREE BEACON – The State Department is offering free therapy to “any employee who feels hurt or upset as a result of this unfortunate mistake,” according to an internal email that went out to employees on Friday. Many State Department employees were “triggered” on Thursday, when emails from colleagues suddenly began to include random pronouns, like, “She/her/hers” and “He/Him/His” in the “from” line.

The pronouns were randomly assigned, with men being given female pronouns and vice versa, due to a “pronoun glitch” in the department’s system, the Washington Free Beacon first reported.

Those upset by the misgendering are encouraged to contact the State Department’s Employee Consultation Service “to speak to a professional counselor.”

“The intent behind making this feature available is to make our systems more inclusive…”

“I want to stress that the intent behind making this feature available is to make our systems more inclusive and provide employees with options—not to make decisions for them,” Kelly E. Fletcher, the State Department’s chief information officer, wrote in the email. “I recognize that this error had the opposite effect, and again, I am very sorry.”

Fletcher informed staffers that the State Department is “testing a new feature that will provide users with the option to include their preferred pronouns in their Global Address List profile.”

“During the test,” she wrote, “the feature inadvertently went live, and a large number of employees had randomly assigned pronouns added to their profiles.”

In the future, employees will have the choice to pick their preferred pronouns.

“I deeply regret the confusion and distress this mistake caused our workforce,” Fletcher wrote.

You’ve got to be kidding me. Our state department must be full of pansies to have to be catered to like this over a stupid email glitch. The fact that anyone would be ‘triggered’ by something like this is absurd in the first place.

What’s more absurd is the fact that they are wasting our tax dollars creating a this new email feature where people can pick their own pronouns. This is completely unnecessary and a waste of resources.