San Antonio man fired for refusing to remove pronouns from email signature

San Antonio resident Frank Zamora was fired for not complying with an order a Texas state agency gave employees to remove gender pronouns from their work email signatures, the Austin-American Statesman reports. Zamora received an ultimatum on Feb. 3 from the Texas Real Estate Commission, the agency that employed him, to scrub the pronouns from his signature, according to the newspaper. Commission officials were responding to a vague Jan. 30 order from Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who directed state agencies to “comply with the law and the biological reality that there are only two sexes — male and female.”