Internal email says agency is ‘reviewing’ programs and contracts that ‘promote or incubate gender ideology’

Several federal government websites went dark while others were edited to remove mentions of gender on Friday evening as agencies scrambled to meet a deadline to scrub their websites, emails and contracts of “gender ideology”.

The office of personnel management also directed agencies to disband employee resource groups, terminate grants and contracts related to the issue and replace the term “gender” with “sex” on government forms.