Thursday, March 28, 2024

Biden State Department’s ‘Radical Gender Imperialism’ Targets Friends and Allies

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ANALYSIS – In a letter to the 's ‘Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Persons' (yes – this is a real diplomatic position under Team Biden!) – Republican lawmakers accused the State Department of “radical gender imperialism” and of seeking to coerce other nations to “normalize and encourage transgenderism among youth.”

This is a significant move by the GOP that deserves all our support.

The State Department's new policy is that any country that provides what they call ‘conversion therapy' rather than hormone treatment and/or surgery to confused underage children with possible is violating their human rights.

However, pressuring kids to become ‘trans' isn't considered ‘conversion therapy and is, therefore, ok.

As the lawmakers write:

The State Department's memo defines conversion therapy as any effort to “suppress or change an individual's…gender identity.” This definition implies that counseling minors against gender transition is akin to electrically shocking minors to “cure” same-sex attraction. It also condemns all potential treatments for youth suffering from gender dysphoria aside from the two most extreme and irreversible options: transition surgery and hormone therapy.

This is something I have been watching for some time, as Biden's insane, radical LGBT and ‘trans' agenda alienates sane, traditional-minded allies such as Poland and Hungary and even gives Russia an excuse to oppose the U.S. and the West on the grounds of ‘cultural imperialism' – a phrase once used by the Soviet Union and the left against America for entirely different reasons.

But now Biden's radical ideology may make even progressive allies such as Sweden, Finland and the U.K. into ‘human rights abusers' to the U.S. State Department.

The medical authorities in these countries have concluded that there's little scientific support for underage “gender-affirming care” (life-altering surgery and hormones) are (as Finland's official medical body put it) “experimental” … Sweden has banned gender surgeries for minors — surgeries that are practiced in the .

As The Daily Signal notes:

…members of the Republican Study Committee point to a leaked memo reportedly circulated by Secretary of State indicating that the may begin pushing other countries to endorse youthful “gender affirming care”—a euphemism used by the media, activists, and Democrats to describe the more grisly-sounding transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers. 

The City Journal explains that:

The memo represents an effort by Secretary Blinken to carry out President Biden's Executive Order 14075 from last June. That order instructs agencies of the federal government to do what they can to stop “conversion therapy” for “LGBTQI+” people. Following its release, Biden appointed Jessica Stern as Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons, a position created by the Obama administration but left unfilled under . Stern, who goes by “all pronouns” …has borrowed arguments against “conversion therapy” for sexual orientation (where the evidence against the practice is strong) and applied them, unscientifically, to “gender identity” (where studies have consistently shown that cross-gender identification in children is, for the vast majority of those who experience it, a passing phase). This strategy of piggybacking off public ignorance about the difference between homosexuality and transgenderism is by now familiar.

The Daily Signal continues:

The lawmakers describe the memo as “a form of radical gender imperialism that threatens our relationships with other nations and harms our standing in the world,” warning that “the first consequence of this policy is to undermine our allies' regard for the United States' moral authority on human rights issues.” 

Such strict U.S. measures would ostracize countries that have banned “gender affirming care” or transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers for minors, the lawmakers said.

“Many countries in Europe, including the , Finland, and Sweden, employ either ‘last line of defense' policies on ‘gender affirming care,' or have banned gender surgeries for youth altogether,” the letter noted. “These more restrictive policies now risk making Western European nations ‘human rights abusers' in the eyes of the State Department, putting them on similar footing as the People's Republic of China (PRC), which has committed genocide of the Uyghurs, or the Maduro regime, which has utilized arbitrary detentions and torture against regime dissidents in .”

The GOP letter notes that:

First and foremost, normalizing and encouraging transgenderism among children has no place in American society, especially when it is done by the federal . Children in America and abroad shouldn't be exploited to advance a radical agenda.

The lawmakers add that the damage of this ‘gender imperialism' isn't just to our relations with European allies, but extends globally:

The initiative also threatens the relationships the United States enjoys with countries in which, unlike parts of America and Western Europe, transgenderism does not enjoy government support. In Africa, the Middle East and much of the developing world, for example, where the U.S. enjoys key strategic relationships.

And adds that: “This initiative will give anti-American leaders ammunition to further propagate anti-American sentiment and policies.”

The City Journal explains how insidious this policy is in practice:

The Blinken directive effectively turns American consulates and embassies into global “gender affirming” spies. Embassies are instructed to “submit robust information on the so-called ‘conversion therapy' practices” of host countries “as part of the annual Human Rights Reports.” Jessica Stern's office will then devise an “action plan to combat the practice across foreign policy and foreign assistance lines of effort.”

But this is just the latest salvo in Biden's war against the traditional values held by allies and friends worldwide

As The Daily Signal notes, Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) led his colleagues in sending the letter to Stern and he said:

The Biden State Department has now flown a pride flag outside the Vatican, funded atheism, appointed a special representative on [critical race theory], and promoted insane gender ideology. They have seriously damaged our standing in the world to promote a far-left ideology that most Americans reject.

ALD

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Paul Crespo
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Paul Crespo is the Managing Editor of American Liberty Defense News. As a Marine Corps officer, he led Marines, served aboard ships in the Pacific and jumped from helicopters and airplanes. He was also a military attaché with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at U.S. embassies worldwide. He later ran for office, taught political science, wrote for a major newspaper and had his own radio show. A graduate of Georgetown, London and Cambridge universities, he brings decades of experience and insight to the issues that most threaten our American liberty – at home and from abroad.

7 COMMENTS

  1. All these things mentioned in this article are attributed to ancient pagan gods that has unfortunately crept into our country. It is child sacrifice to a particular god. While parents/doctors and etc don’t realize that when they accept this they are paying worship to this god that is a destroyer.
    Research the pagan gods of Baal named
    Ishtar, and Molech’s Priest , how the Carthaginian culture vIewed child sacrifice.
    You could learn much about this subject from a book entitled “The Return of the Gods” by Jonathan Kahn. With an open mind it will reveal the ancient gods and how they still operate, even in America.

    • Or you could just find it in the BIBLE, where Kahn did, including all those pagan deities & Yhwh God’s opinion of all of it, including what became ofthe nations of the past supporting those deities! Every bit of it is in there! You MIGHT even stumble across some clues as to WHY He acts as He does, & issues rules for living that He does. There’s actually not much about human existence not covered in the pages of the Bible, IF you approach it with an open mind & heart, & willingness to be taught by the Holy Spirit. Some precepts & concepts are harder to grasp than others, I grant; took me 6 decades, to REALLY get that whole “free will” thing, but that was because my own history & emotions kept getting in the way. But the Holy Spirit is a persistent teacher, once you let Him in! He’ll even show you how “tabA fits into slot B”, so you “see” how the pieces fit together in proper order. What have you got to lose, but preconceptions, lies, & fears? Give it a try.
      Fair warning though…when you start reading the Bible, Satan will do EVERYTHING in his considerable power to stop you; he can’t STAND truth seeping into an human consciousness, much less it drawing that human toward God! He will distract, burden, oppress or depress, sometimes even threaten, to stop you learning what he knows is in there. On the other side, if you ever went to church, studied religions, etc, in the past, put aside all you THINK you know about the Bible & God, & just let Him speak His Written Word to you. You, too,may have a lot of garbage to unlearn; I sure did. Have a blessed time in His presence.

  2. WHY should other nations go along with the mental illness promoted here as”normal”, when they, like many of us, KNOW that’s what it is??? BTW, it’s NOT “hate” to call it what it is, & desire to offer CONCRETE help, instead of faux hope if they’ll just get mutilated & sterilized, this latter demonstrating the REAL HATE!

    • Statistics for suicide rates of gender mutilated individuals before and after surgery prove you are correct. This is a mental health issue.

  3. If I remember correctly,homosexuality (et seq.) were present in the Roman Empire and tolerated to some degree. Yet once the deviations became SANCTIONED and indeed encouraged by the Imperial government, they contributed to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Citizens became satiated and absorbed in their desires and paid little attention to where the State was headed. Like that painting ‘Ship of Fools.’ All the crew and passengers seem absorbed in having a good time with various diversions, yet no one seems concerned with running the ship or where the ship is headed. The Empire became overrun with spartan and hardened barbarians who mopped up the floor with sybaritic Romans.

  4. He isn’t talking about none of my friends and family. God made Man and he made Women. There is a difference in a man and a woman. If God wanted to make you a man, then he made you a man. If he made you a woman, you are a woman.

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