DoD employees cannot be banned from listing pronouns

So this is totally sea lawyering, but it's worth knowing about a change to law instituted by a recent NDAA, at 10 USC 986. It's short so I'll just quote the entire thing:

The Secretary of Defense may not require or prohibit a member of the armed forces or a civilian employee of the Department of Defense to identify the gender or personal pronouns of such member or employee in any official correspondence of the Department.

Now, this was an effort by legislators to prevent the DoD from mandating that you list your pronouns. But they wrote it even-handedly, and so it also prevents the DoD from forbidding you to list your pronouns.

This doesn't mean DoD can't strip pronouns from IT system profiles (like with Flank Speed), but if you include them in your own communications there is a legal basis to defend it.

All that said, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not going to encourage people to pick stupid fights with their chain of command, but if it's something deeply important to you then you should know it's out there.