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White House Ignores Preferred Pronouns and the Journalists Who Use Them

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The wealthiest man in the world, Elon Musk , wrote that the "pronoun bs is finally going away" on his social media site X late Friday .

Musk ’s post comes days after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that administration officials would refrain from responding to journalists who include their preferred pronouns in email signatures or bios.

The move aligns with the president's coordinated rollback of protections for transgender people.

And in June of 2023 , on the first day of Pride Month , Musk said he would allow users to intentionally misgender someone without consequence. He also claimed that he personally would use the pronouns that someone prefers for manners’ sake—something he has repeatedly chosen not to do with his own daughter..

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