The instructions to employees aimed to fulfill orders from the Trump administration, which told agency heads to remove all references to gender identity from official materials by 5 p.m. Friday.

Getting “pink-slipped” may soon take on a new meaning. Executive branch employees have been ordered to cut gender pronouns out of their email signatures, memos obtained by ABC News and other outlets show,

Federal employees were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures to comply with executive orders signed by Trump aimed at dismantling DEI programs.

Multiple US government agencies have ordered employees “to remove gender identifying pronouns from email signature blocks by 5:00 PM” on Friday, according to internal emails seen by CNN.