The Trump administration has dealt a significant blow to gender ideology within the federal government, with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issuing a memorandum that, among other requirements, apparently instructs all federal employees to remove their pronouns from email signatures.

Letters to multiple federal agencies, seemingly issued in response to the OPM memo, require employees to remove labels like “he/him,” “she/her,” and nonsense “pronouns” like “xe/xir” — all of which are a signal of featly to the ideology and suggest that there could be more than two sexes — by 5:00 p.m. on Jan. 31. But while those instructions a positive, outward-facing step in the right direction, the OPM memo goes further.

On the chopping block, too, are all contracts, programs, and grants that “promote gender ideology.” Any agency employee whose job “involves inculcating or promoting gender ideology” will be placed on paid administrative leave immediately, and all related initiatives under their watch will be ended. All agencies will be required to take down all media related to the ideology, including on websites and social media, and federal prompts for users to include their pronouns must be removed.

Men’s and women’s intimate spaces, such as restrooms, will also no longer be able to accommodate those of the opposite sex or claimed “gender identity” and will return to being designated for males or females, exclusively. The memorandum also requires the following:

Withdraw any final or pending documents, directives, orders, regulations, materials, forms, communications, statements, and plans that inculcate or promote gender ideology.

Cancel any trainings that inculcate or promote gender ideology or have done so in the past.

All “employee resource groups or special emphasis programs” that pertain to the ideology will also be removed, and any forms that require someone to designate his sex will solely pertain to sex, not “gender,” and will only include options for male and female.

The OPM directive also requires departments and agencies to provide “a complete list of actions taken in response to the guidance” by 5:00 p.m. on Feb. 7.

OPM’s guidance comes as a direct result of a Trump executive order, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.

That order was at the root of another major action from the Trump administration on Friday, with the U.S. Department of Education throwing out the Biden administration’s radical rewrite of Title IX and replacing it with the first Trump administration’s protections for women and girls, as The Federalist reported.

Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.