State Department Claims It Mistakingly Added

Mandatory Pronouns Onto Emails

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The State Department claims that it ‘unintentionally’ added mandatory

pronouns to the “from” line on all their emails after it was called out by a
reporter from the Associated Press.

After the AP reporter pointed it out, the State department issued a statement
claiming “This change was unintentional and the bureau is working to correct this
immediately.”
Summit News reports: The journalist, Matt Lee, challenged Deputy State
Department spokesperson Vedant Patel, demanding to know why o cial emails
were being sent with pronouns added to them.

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“Within the last hour and a half… the State Department’s internal email system —
and I tested this, so I know that it’s true —has added pronouns to people’s … not
their signature … but to where it says from,” Lee said, asking “Why?” 

“This is not an optional thing,” Lee said, adding “the problem is that a lot of them
or at least some of them so far, as I’ve been able to tell, are wrong! They’re giving
the wrong pronouns! So men are being identi ed as women and women as
men…. It’s ridiculous!” 

Patel had no knowledge of the development and couldn’t provide any answers.

Watch:
 WATCH: AP’s Matt Lee asks Biden State Department why they’ve added mandatory pronouns onto the
from line on State Department emails.

"This is not an optional thing. … But the problem is that a lot of them or at least some of them so far, as
I’ve been able to tell, are wrong!… pic.twitter.com/KVnbnICrUT

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 18, 2023

Following the exchange, the State department issued a statement claiming “This
change was unintentional and the bureau is working to correct this immediately.”

Priceless. The Biden State Department got caught misgendering their own employees.
pic.twitter.com/nuDjhrvsHi

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 18, 2023

Easy mistake to make I guess, coding an email delivery system to add pronouns
itself automatically. We’ve all done it, right?

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