Agencies further are to “review agency email systems such as Outlook and turn off features that prompt users for their pronouns”. Image: Allmy/Shutterstock.com
OPM has told agencies to review positions that involve “inculcating or promoting gender ideology” and place employees on administrative leave effective at the close of business Friday (January 31) “as the agency takes steps to close/end all initiatives, offices, and programs that inculcate or promote gender ideology.”
The memo on chcoc.gov is in response to an executive order issued last week titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.
Agencies further are to “review agency email systems such as Outlook and turn off features that prompt users for their pronouns”; “cancel any trainings that inculcate or promote gender ideology or have done so in the past”; and “disband or cancel any employee resource groups or special emphasis programs that inculcate or promote gender ideology or have done so in the past.”
The OPM guidance, labeled interim, does not specifically state that employees identified are to lose their jobs. However, OPM’s first guidance on a separate executive order canceling DEI programs had similarly told agencies to identify employees with such roles and place them on administrative leave. That was followed by one stating that agencies “can and should” start sending those employees RIF notices now, and further telling agencies to structure the RIFs in a way that they would not be able to move into other types of positions.
As with the DEI order, it is uncertain how many employees potentially are affected by the “gender ideology” order.
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