The Absurd GOP

[Jackalope]

My boss to the company today: "Please scan all government facing communications for keywords that DOGE are looking at" and cited the transgenic mice (trans = bad word), and the Enola Gay (gay is a bad word). Particularly we were asked to scan for "gender" as opposed to "sex" and use only male and female terms instead of gender.

The DOGE insanity has filtered to this level.

So far as I can tell, none of this nonsense has surfaced at my employer, despite being a federal contractor.

[arewethereyet]

I guess I am lucky that my boss is very liberal in her hiring practices. Gay, straight, white, brown...and everything in between don't matter to her if you can do that job you were hired for.

I do make sure not to enter things like "binary" when gender is asked for in our payroll program. Were it to ever be hacked into, I want nothing there to be used against us. We also do not track ethnicity.