diff --git a/.ci/pitest-suppressions/pitest-api-suppressions.xml b/.ci/pitest-suppressions/pitest-api-suppressions.xml
index 18944363673..f7d4fbed9f1 100644
--- a/.ci/pitest-suppressions/pitest-api-suppressions.xml
+++ b/.ci/pitest-suppressions/pitest-api-suppressions.xml
@@ -36,24 +36,6 @@
     <lineContent>severityLevel = SeverityLevel.getInstance(severity);</lineContent>
   </mutation>
 
-  <mutation unstable="false">
-    <sourceFile>AutomaticBean.java</sourceFile>
-    <mutatedClass>com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean$RelaxedAccessModifierArrayConverter</mutatedClass>
-    <mutatedMethod>convert</mutatedMethod>
-    <mutator>org.pitest.mutationtest.engine.gregor.mutators.experimental.NakedReceiverMutator</mutator>
-    <description>replaced call to java/lang/String::trim with receiver</description>
-    <lineContent>result.add(AccessModifierOption.getInstance(token.trim()));</lineContent>
-  </mutation>
-
-  <mutation unstable="false">
-    <sourceFile>AutomaticBean.java</sourceFile>
-    <mutatedClass>com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean$RelaxedAccessModifierArrayConverter</mutatedClass>
-    <mutatedMethod>convert</mutatedMethod>
-    <mutator>org.pitest.mutationtest.engine.gregor.mutators.experimental.NakedReceiverMutator</mutator>
-    <description>replaced call to java/lang/String::trim with receiver</description>
-    <lineContent>value.toString().trim(), COMMA_SEPARATOR);</lineContent>
-  </mutation>
-
   <mutation unstable="false">
     <sourceFile>AutomaticBean.java</sourceFile>
     <mutatedClass>com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean$RelaxedStringArrayConverter</mutatedClass>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/AutomaticBean.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/AutomaticBean.java
index 2913b6a0d08..22646a12d13 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/AutomaticBean.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/AutomaticBean.java
@@ -391,12 +391,12 @@ private static class RelaxedAccessModifierArrayConverter implements Converter {
         public Object convert(Class type, Object value) {
             // Converts to a String and trims it for the tokenizer.
             final StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(
-                value.toString().trim(), COMMA_SEPARATOR);
+                value.toString(), COMMA_SEPARATOR);
             final List<AccessModifierOption> result = new ArrayList<>();
 
             while (tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
                 final String token = tokenizer.nextToken();
-                result.add(AccessModifierOption.getInstance(token.trim()));
+                result.add(AccessModifierOption.getInstance(token));
             }
 
             return result.toArray(EMPTY_MODIFIER_ARRAY);