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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Erum Salam

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

a composite image showing Greg Abbott and Elon Musk
Both Abbott (left) and Musk are celebrating the firing of a Texas state employee. Composite: Dallas Morning News via AP, Reuters

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.

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