By Molly Goddard
12:52am PDT, Apr 11, 2025
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Donald Trump's administration is continuing to be selective about the journalists who cover the White House.
On Wednesday, April 9, White House Press Secretary
Karoline Leavitt confirmed they will not respond to messages from reporters who list their preferred gender pronouns in their email signatures.
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On April 9,
The New York Times journalist
Michael Grynbaum reported that Donald Trump's press office dismissed emails from people with their
pronouns in their bios on "three recent occasions."
"As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios," Karoline Leavitt confirmed to the outlet, adding that specifying pronouns "shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts."
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According to Michael Grynbaum, Department of Government Efficiency (
DOGE) senior adviser
Katie Miller also failed to answer questions asked by journalists with their pronouns displayed.
"As a matter of policy, I don't respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts," Donald Trump's staffer wrote in her response to the reporter.
In an additional message, Miller emphasized, "This applies to all reporters who have pronouns in their signature."
Miller asked Karoline Leavitt to respond to the writer as well, to which the media liaison replied, "Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story."
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White House
Communications Director
Steven Cheung also sent Michael Grynbaum a strong response on the topic: "If
The New York Times spent the same amount of time actually reporting the truth as they do being obsessed with pronouns, maybe they would be a half-decent publication," he wrote.
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Since Donald Trump took office in January, his administration has targeted gender identity. The Republican leader has signed executive orders banning trans women from competing in women's sports and shutting transgender people out of the military.
Last month, a
judge blocked Trump's military ban: "Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit, and its conclusions bear no relation to fact," ruled U.S. District Judge
Ana Reyes of Washington, D.C., according to
NBC News. "Indeed, the cruel irony is that thousands of transgender servicemembers have sacrificed — some risking their lives — to ensure for others the very equal protection rights the Military Ban seeks to deny them."
