Elon Musk and Texas governor celebrate firing of worker over pronouns in email signature

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Elon Musk and Texas governor celebrate firing of worker over pronouns in email signature

Billionaire Trump ally and Greg Abbot tweet about Frank Zamora, who was let go after refusing to remove pronouns

Erum Salam
Thu 6 Mar 2025 14.03 EST
Last modified on Thu 6 Mar 2025 14.21 EST

The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, and, later, Elon Musk showed support on Wednesday for the firing of a state employee who refused to remove his pronouns from his work email signature.

Frank Zamora, 31, was let go from his job as a program manager at the Texas real estate commission (TREC) last month because he refused to comply with a mandate from the organisation to employees to remove gender pronouns from email signatures.

“I actually anticipated this coming, just because we knew that many changes that were being made at the federal level were being mimicked at the state level,” Zamora said.

Abbott celebrated the move on X, sharing a report from the Austin American-Statesman on the firing and writing: “A Texas state employee refused to remove pronouns from email signature. He was fired before noon.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/musk-greg-abbott-fired-worker-pronouns

[stoned]

1. So he was fired for a violation of policy?

[joshdawg]

2. Policy? More like petulant bullshit!

just sayin'.

[stoned]

3. Agreed, but

it matters what HR policy says, and what is actionable from the standpoint of punishment up to an including dismissal

[Blues Heron]

4. no way, this is bullshit harassment from these pukes.

Even if its technically some bullshit policy.

[stoned]

5. Well, that's what lawyers are for

The problem will be in the documents that were signed when the employee began working there... "Always read the fine print."