President Trump Cuts Gender Pronouns from All Gov Emails: Why That’s Important

In keeping with his swift directive to rid the federal government of DEI ideology, President Trump directed government employees to remove gender pronouns from their work emails. The internal governmental memo with this directive stated “Pronouns and any other information not permitted in the policy must be removed from … employee signatures by 5 pm ET on Friday.” That was January 31.

This is a very praise-worthy move for many reasons.

No one should be compelled to live by lies … especially at work or in government.

Gender ideology is a false and deceptive belief system. To be human is to be male and female. Full stop. There is no third option. Thankfully, that is now official policy of the United States.  

At the precise moment of his arrest and exile from Soviet Russia in 1974, the celebrated literary dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn released a document that was as powerful as it was brief: “Live Not By Lies.”

Solzhenitsyn explained the simple fact that the ideological system his nation was suffering under “demands from us only obedience to lies and daily participation in lies.” Thus, he told his countrymen,

Read that statement again for emphasis and reflect upon it. This truth is equally simple and profound. Resolving to refuse to speak or assent to what you know to be false is one of the greatest revolutionary acts a human can perform. Solzhenitsyn explained,

Why?

Lies have no life if we all refuse to let them live in our own words and beliefs. No should be compelled to play the game of participating in lies at school or in the workplace.

Gender pronouns are the catechism of a new fundamentalist secular faith.

Christians, and all people of sound reason, must understand that the pressure to use gender pronouns is an indoctrination in the anti-scientific, unreasonable faith of gender ideology and transgenderism. Pronoun use is the required catechism in that new secular religion. In fact, those who refuse to play along with this false belief system are called ugly names.

British mom-activist Kellie-Jay Keen correctly calls gender pronouns “the gateway drug” to gender brainwashing. When we go along and use them, thinking there is no harm, we are participating in and supporting a belief system that is diametrically opposed to reality.

Using pronouns is not “just being kind” and hospitable.

Some have wrongly framed gender pronoun use as a sign of graciousness to others. Christian author Preston Sprinkle refers to this as “pronoun hospitality.” Wheaton College professor Mark Yarhouse has written, “It is an act of respect, even if we disagree, to let the person determine what they want to be called.” As well intentioned as this opinion might be, it is wrong.

Participating in the pronoun game is a not a matter of good manners. It is not a kindness. It is not reasonable. It is certainly not love of neighbor.

Rosario Butterfield, a good friend of Focus on the Family, actually calls using gender pronouns sin. She writes the practice “makes no Christian sense” adding “any parachurch ministry that elevates ‘being winsome’ as the endgame” of the Christian life can be manipulated into making this mistake. Of course she is right.

Banning gender pronouns in federal government is a very wise move. Clearly establishing that sex means male and female is true and prudent. None of us should be faced with blatant lies in the workplace and then be forced to behave as if they represent reality. Gender pronouns represent an alternative reality. Let us be done with them with all haste.

Additional Resources

Don’t Be Bullied in the Pronoun War

How to Respond to “Trans” and Gender Ideology? Simple: Live Not by Lies

Gender Pronouns are the Catechism of a New Secular Faith Being Pushed on All of Us

Part I – Navigating Gender Pronouns at School and Work

Part 2 – Required Personal Pronoun Use at School and Work Leads to Crazy-making, Literally

Part 3 – What to Say When Pressured to Use Gender Pronouns

Part 4 – Is it Ever Right to Use Personal Gender Pronouns?