House ethics complaint filed over GOP staffer’s anti-trans email
A federal government employee has filed a complaint to the U.S. House Ethics Committee over an email they received from Matthew Donnellan, chief of staff to Republican U.S.
Rep. Carol Miller (W.Va.), which contained combative and anti-trans language. The Washington Blade has seen the correspondence between the parties, in which the confrontation was apparently kicked off when the congresswoman’s top aide received an email that included the sender’s preferred pronouns in the signature box, triggering his reply.
Donnellan wrote, “As a father, it is disgusting that anyone would ever tell my son or daughter that something is wrong with them and they should take sterilizing hormones or have surgery to cut off their genitals.” “The fact that you support that ideology by putting pronouns in your signature is awful,” he said, adding, “You’re disgusting and should be ashamed of yourself.
Don’t email me or anyone from my office ever again.” A senior government official told the Blade in a written statement that the email was not out of character for Donnellan: “I’ve heard from two colleagues several months apart about two separate transphobic emails, using identical language, from Matthew.
