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New 'Orwellian' HHS pronoun mandate forces employees to 'deny reality,' violate law: legal expert
Fox News ^ | 11/09/23 | Andrew Mark Miller

Posted on 11/09/2023 4:40:49 PM PST by Libloather

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has rolled out a new gender pronoun policy that one Heritage Foundation expert and former HHS official says violates employee rights and will result in firings for "misgendering."

"HHS and the federal government is requiring its employees to speak falsehoods," Roger Severino, the Heritage Foundation’s vice president for domestic policy and the former head of civil rights at HHS during the Trump administration, told Fox News Digital.

Severino first broke the story on X, formerly Twitter, last week. He wrote that HHS "imposed a transgender pronoun mandate on its employees who will now be forced to deny biological realities with their own words or face firing" and he included a screenshot of an email sent to employees at the department.

Severino told Fox News Digital that the First Amendment protects federal employees from being required to speak falsehoods, being compelled to adopt a state-approved ideology and requiring people to deny their own faith.

"These policies would require all of those things," said Severino, a Harvard Law School graduate.

"All employees should be addressed [by] the names and pronouns they use to describe themselves," the email to HHS employees stated as part of its push for "Gender Identity and Non-Discrimination Guidance" that it says protects "employee rights and protections related to gender identity."

Severino says the push began with two White House executive orders, one in January 2021 and one in June 2022, that were framed as ways to combat "gender discrimination" on the basis of "gender identity."

"All applicants and employees should be addressed by the names and pronouns they use to describe themselves. Using correct names and pronouns helps foster workplaces free of discrimination and harassment," the U.S. Office of Personnel Management guidance states.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: civilrights; genderpronouns; hesheit; hhs; law; legal; mandate; misgendering; pronoun; pronouns; retarded; trans; transinsanity
Don't even know my pronouns.
1 posted on 11/09/2023 4:40:49 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

standard tyranny practice

they force you to lie

to reduce resistance to the tyranny

it also outs any resistance


2 posted on 11/09/2023 4:51:49 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Libloather

The left is still worried about mis gendering someone while caring less about Hamas killing Jewish babies.

priorities


3 posted on 11/09/2023 4:51:52 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Libloather

OMG the time to get over this nonsense is NOW.


4 posted on 11/09/2023 4:52:27 PM PST by jocon307
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To: Libloather

If there were any conservatives working for this age agency they must immediately identify as “gender fluid.” Change pronouns every few hours and when they are “misgendered”sue. Keep doing it over and over. Make them regret this.


5 posted on 11/09/2023 4:52:32 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Libloather

it is not about gender pronouns

the issue is never the issue

the issue is always the revolution


6 posted on 11/09/2023 4:54:28 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Libloather

Everyone in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) involved in producing and enforcing this perverted travesty should be indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be publicly hanged for attacking the First Amendment and for giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.

And let their carcasses rot off the noose.


7 posted on 11/09/2023 4:54:29 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Organic Panic

I like the way you think.


8 posted on 11/09/2023 4:55:37 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Libloather
"All applicants and employees should be addressed by the names and pronouns they use to describe themselves. Using correct names and pronouns helps foster workplaces free of discrimination and harassment,"

Well, accept those those employees that subscribe to reality.

Those employees can bite it.

Those employees will be discriminated against and lose their livelihood.

9 posted on 11/09/2023 4:57:13 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Organic Panic

Ha! I love it. 🤣


10 posted on 11/09/2023 5:12:13 PM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: Libloather

Some years ago I taught ESL classes in factories. There were two classess and on the first say of class two women came into my room to ask if they were in the right place. I asked their names to see if they were on my list. One was Maria and the other was Hector. “You’re Hector?” I asked one of the women and she confirmed it. Well, Hector was a man but with the hairstyle, makeup, clothes and jewelry, he made a very convincing woman. He fooled me. But everyone referred to him as Hector and his pronouns were he/him/his. After the intial confusion I never had a problem keeping it straight. I can imagine the confusion, though, of having to deal with a lot of people and trying to remember which he’s are she’s and which she’s are he’s and which people of of either sex opt for the whimsical “they”.


11 posted on 11/09/2023 5:13:10 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

some years ago at usp Leavenworth I was a correctional worker and I got a new name tag that just said Massa the inmates stopped yelling for me.


12 posted on 11/09/2023 5:23:24 PM PST by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: bdfromlv

LOL!


13 posted on 11/09/2023 5:31:09 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Libloather

This in a country where, sadly, a majority of its schoolchildren can’t even define a “pronoun” any longer.


14 posted on 11/09/2023 5:31:47 PM PST by workerbee (==)
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To: Libloather; All
Thank you for referencing that article Libloather.

"New 'Orwellian' HHS pronoun mandate forces employees to 'deny reality,' violate law: legal expert"


Patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to dictate INTRAstate healthcare policy, Obamacare for example, unconstitutional imo.

So HHS shouldn't even exist imo, HHS dictates based on stolen state powers.

After all, lawmakers and executives continue to show that they do not have the patriotism and leadership skills necessary to find legislative support for effective remedies for unconstitutional government policies.

ASAP, Democratic and Republican Trump supporters need to be ready to primary ALL incumbent state and federal lawmakers and executives in 2024 primaries who are up for reelection, except for MTG, Gaetz & Company, Jordan (and others?).

Incumbents need to be replaced with Trump-supporting lawmakers who will support Trump to finish draining the swamp.

15 posted on 11/09/2023 6:00:16 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Libloather
Just another example of how the stinking communist bastards continue to run roughshod over the servile Aamerican serfs...

There are no limits to tyranny...
There is no end in sight!

16 posted on 11/09/2023 8:10:37 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Libloather
'How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?'

'Four.'

'And if the party says that it is not four but five—then how many?'

'Four.'

― George Orwell, 1984

Regards,

17 posted on 11/09/2023 11:20:48 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Organic Panic

Perhaps throwing in an occasional everyone/no one would spice things up too.

EC


18 posted on 11/10/2023 4:30:31 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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