A fellow Trump supporter just asked me what I thought President Trump would do on his first day in office. Other than the obvious closing of the border, the opening up of fracking and pipelines in order to address the two most pressing issues for Americans of illegal immigration and inflation, I was silent until I read something from Rip McIntosh’s Newsletter written by Christopher Rufo:
“How Gender Ideology Captured the State Department.”
“A Biden executive order prompted the agency to recast its mission from advancing American interests abroad through complex and delicate diplomatic missions and maintaining the safety of those missions and the Americans serving them.
Under President Joe Biden, the State Department has demoted that critical objective in favor of a new global agenda: to spread radical gender theory to foreign nations.
Upon taking office in 2021, the administration issued a slew of executive orders and memoranda entrenching left-wing ideologies in all levels of the federal government under the guise of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion,’ or DEI.”
“As part of this DEI initiative, the White House required each federal agency to submit detailed DEI progress reports regularly, appoint a chief diversity officer, and create “Agency Equity Teams,” whose leaders were tasked with “delivering equitable outcomes.” These requirements contributed to what the president called “an ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda.”
The gender component of this agenda spread to the State Department through the president’s Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World. Published in February 2021, this memorandum directed State and other agencies to monitor closely and report on the “LGBTQI+” policies of our allies to “broaden the number of countries willing to support and defend” the radical Left’s understanding of gender—for example, by funding pro-transgender “civil society advocates” in order to shift public opinion in those countries—and to tie in the principles of gender theory to America’s foreign-aid programs.
Furthermore Rufo’s piece in McIntosh’s Newsletter goes on to specify how the State Department has been basically been taken over by the DEI nonsense. In actuality the clearing out of DEI hires and policies might be better dealt with by Elon Musk, as President Trump will have more pressing things to do on his first day – like talking to Putin, and attempting to end the war in Ukraine.
11/18/24