Federal employees have been asked to remove pronouns from their email signatures after a memo from the U. S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) directed government offices to stop promoting “gender ideology.”

The memo cited a recent executive order by President Donald Trump to halt “gender ideology extremism” and “restore biological truth.” In the memo, sent Wednesday, each agency received a deadline of no later than 5 p.m. on Friday to execute several changes.

Agency leaders must “send an email to all agency employees announcing that the agency will be complying with” the order. It also mandates each agency terminate any contracts that “promote or inculcate gender ideology.”

“Review all agency position descriptions and send a notification to all employees whose position description involves inculcating or promoting gender ideology that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately as the agency takes steps to close/ end all initiatives, office and programs that inculcate or promote gender ideology,” another directive reads.

All offices must also remove “all outward facing media” promoting gender ideology and remove email features that prompt users to display their pronouns.

An internal memo obtained by ABC News shows Jason Bonander, chief information officer at the CDC, ordered employees to remove pronouns from their email signatures by 5 p.m. Friday.

“Pronouns and any other information not permitted in the policy must be removed from CDC/ATSDR employee signatures by 5.p.m. ET on Friday,” Bonander wrote.

Employees at the Department of Transportation and Department of Energy reportedly received similar emails.

The order to root out “gender ideology” comes as the U.S. Department of Education on Friday announced it would enforce Title IX protections in schools based on biological sex. The Biden administration had proposed an expansion to Title IX prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

“The Biden Administration’s failed attempt to rewrite Title IX was an unlawful abuse of regulatory power and an egregious slight to women and girls,” Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said in a statement. “Under the Trump Administration, the Education Department will champion equal opportunity for all Americans, including women and girls, by protecting their right to safe and separate facilities and activities in schools, colleges, and universities.”

Trump also signed an executive order barring transgender service members from the military. That order denounced “radical gender ideology” as damaging to the nation’s defense.

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