White House Press Office Won’t Respond to Reporters With ‘Preferred Pronouns’ in Bio

The policy aligns with Trump’s effort to reassert ’the biological reality of sex' across the federal government.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions from members of the press at the White House in Washington on March 26, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Journalists who list preferred gender pronouns in their email signatures won’t be getting a response from the White House to their emails, according to the Trump administration.

“It is official White House policy to IGNORE reporters’ emails with pronouns in the signature,” the Trump War Room account on April 9 announced on social media platform X, confirming anecdotal accounts from journalists who said their inquiries were dismissed or unanswered.