Agents within U.S. Customers and Border Protection (CBP) are prohibited from using traditional gender pronouns during initial engagements with members of the public, according to an internal government memo recently obtained by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation.
The memo, requested via FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) by Heritage’s Oversight Project, ordered agents to avoid using “he, him, she, her” pronouns “until you have more information about, or provided by, the individual,” Fox News reports.
CBP, an entity of the Department of Homeland Security, told agents that “if an incorrect pronoun is used and corrected by the individual, acknowledge the oversight and use the correct pronoun,” Fox noted.
Heritage launched its Oversight Project in January 2022 to increase “aggressive oversight of the Biden administration and the political and corporate enablers of the leftist regime,” its press release stated. The project is led by attorney Mike Howell and former FBI investigator Mark Morgan.