NewsAOC Removes Pronouns From X Bio: What We Know

AOC Removes Pronouns From X Bio: What We Know

The right-wing media sphere flew into a frenzy on Thursday when several users on social media pointed out that U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York had removed her pronouns from her bio on X, formerly Twitter.

The overarching sentiment was that Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to remove her pronouns from her bio underscored President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the 2024 election, and was an inflection point in “woke” ideology—a derisive term that many conservatives use to describe identity politics and progressive values.

“JUST IN: AOC removed her pronouns from her bio,” read a post from the popular far-right Libs of TikTok X account.

Riley Gaines, the swimmer and political activist who is opposed to transgender athletes competing in women’s sports, wrote on X: “They’ll pretend they never embraced (or even celebrated) the insanity.

“Don’t forget who the compliant, virtue-signaling sheep were.”

The account EndWokeness, which says it is “Fighting, exposing, and mocking wokeness” and has more than 3 million followers, posted: “2 years ago, AOC posted an apology for forgetting to put pronouns in her bio. She just removed them on X.”

Gaines also responded to that video, writing: “We’re winning and its glorious.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 19. The Democratic congresswoman removed her pronouns from her X bio well before the election.

ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/GETTY

However, other observers noted that Ocasio-Cortez removed her pronouns from her X bio well before Election Day.

She didn’t have them in her bio on July 29, according to one screenshot of the lawmaker’s X account captured on the Internet Archive. And The Daily Dot reported that the New York congresswoman had axed her pronouns from her bio as early as May.

Republicans leaned heavily into the culture war heading into this year’s election, hammering Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party over their support for transgender rights and the LGBTQ+ community.

During his September debate against Harris, Trump claimed Harris wanted “to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison. This is a radical left liberal that would do this.”

Trump appeared to be referring to a 2019 American Civil Liberties Union survey that Harris filled out during her first presidential campaign. In the survey, Harris said she would use her executive authority to ensure that transgender people who relied on the government for medical care, including those in prison, would have access to treatment associated with gender transition.

In addition to the debate, Trump also dug in on the culture war in his campaign ads. Among the most widely circulated ads this election season was one from the Trump campaign saying that “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”

Some Democrats have publicly acknowledged the effectiveness of Trump and the GOP’s messaging strategy and believe it’s one reason why Harris ultimately lost the election.

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