"80k employees of Biden’s HHS are now forced to use transgender pronouns"

"Timed to coincide with 'National Coming Out Day,' the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has imposed a transgender pronoun mandate on its 80,000 employees, requiring each to affirm transgender and non-binary coworkers’ self-proclaimed 'identity,' no matter what his or her conscience might dictate.

'HHS today imposed a transgender pronoun mandate on its employees who will now be forced to deny biological realities with their own words or face firing,' explained Roger Severino, the director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights during the Trump Administration, on social media.

'Those with faith objections should immediately request religious accommodation and prepare to fight for your rights,' he advised.

'This admin really is requiring pure ideological conformity. Let’s see how tolerant this admin will be of those who will seek an opt-out out of faith or compelled speech concerns.'

Severino contrasted the disparate messages that HHS was sending out to its small minority of gender non-conforming employees with that delivered to the vast majority of its employees who now must bend their knees to transgender ideology, even if they find it abhorrent:

'HHS to people who identify as the sex they are not: ‘who you know yourself to be is valid.’...
'HHS to its workforce: All must publicly announce acceptance of this ideological view by using pronouns contrary to biological realities. Resisters will be fired for making HHS ‘unsafe.’...
‘Out and proud’ trans Admiral ‘Rachel’ (neé Richard) Levine introduces mandate

In a video posted to YouTube two weeks ago, HHS’s transgender Assistant Secretary for Health, ‘Rachel’ (neé Richard) Levine introduced the imposition of the trans pronoun mandate (from 3:30)..."