Food and Drug Administration staffers were told not to use words like “woman” and “disabled” in work chats for at least the last week, but the White House said this order was erroneous.

A White House spokesperson told Reuters that the list of “prohibited words” came from a misunderstanding of President Donald Trump’s executive orders tackling gender ideology.

While the FDA suggested that no list of banned words exists, the White House said that to remain compliant with Trump’s orders, the agency must not use words such as gender, inclusion, identity, diversity, inter, intersex, equity, equitable, transgender, and trans.

The Washington Examiner reached out to the White House for clarification.

According to the list circulating at the FDA, the following words were banned without explanation: Underrepresented, underserved, understudied, sex, identity, diverse, women, woman, promote, definition, continuum, ideology, self-assessed, special populations, elderly, and disabled.

Two FDA sources told Reuters that their colleagues claimed the list originated within the Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

While the White House denied the legitimacy of the list of prohibited words, one FDA source said that banning them “would make it almost impossible to do our jobs.”

LIST: THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS, ACTIONS, AND PROCLAMATIONS TRUMP HAS MADE AS PRESIDENT

Since taking office, Trump has issued several executive orders aimed at “bringing back common sense and restoring biological truth to the federal government,” according to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In addition to signing an order proclaiming that there are only two genders, Trump has banned biological men from women’s sports at federally funded educational institutions and directed the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to enforce Title IX on the basis of biological sex.