Conservative politicians and pundits zeroed in on the practice as an example of what they deemed runaway woke-ism and decried it as an attempt to normalize the concept that there are more than two biological genders, male and female, the “scientific realities” to which Ms. Miller appeared to refer. Contacted for comment, administration officials did not directly say if their responses to the journalists represented a new formal policy of the White House press office, or when the practice had started. “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,” Ms. Leavitt, the press secretary, wrote in an email.

The Trump administration said Wednesday they will not answer emails from reporters with their pronouns listed in their email signatures. “It is official White House policy to IGNORE reporters’ emails with pronouns in the signature,” Trump War Room, an account verified with the official X account for the Trump campaign, wrote on X. “I don’t respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was quoted saying in the post.

The White House will no longer respond to reporters who list their preferred gender pronouns in their email signatures because they “ignore scientific realities.” “It is official White House policy to IGNORE reporters’ emails with pronouns in the signature,” the Trump War Room account announced on X, confirming anecdotal instances of press getting a brush-off. The official account then added a statement from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying that she doesn’t respond to journalists who use pronouns “as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts.” “As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,” Leavitt confirmed to the New York Times.