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I'm a Google Workspace admin, and a team member sent me a screenshot showing that a message they wanted to send was being blocked because it violated an organizational policy-- which was news to me-- I hadn't put in place to block messages based on their content.
Turns out Google Workspace now warns by default when the message content mentions gender identity.
If you have a Google Workspace account, you could test to see if the rule in place for you by trying to send a message to your personal email address with a gender-related phrase or word you want to test to see if it's blocked to find out more detail what would be blocked and allowed by the rule.
Google does not disclose exactly how their rule matches that warns users about emails that mention gender identity, but the content that triggered it was a sentence similar to this:
"We’ve also removed gender preference as a default field in an effort to reduce the amount of information we’re requesting."
Admins have options to change the default from Warn to Block or Allow.
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