ANALYSIS โ Inย a letterย to the State Department's โSpecial Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Persons' (yes โ this is a real diplomatic position under Team Biden!) โ Republican lawmakers accused the State Department of โradical gender imperialismโ and of seeking to coerce other nations to โnormalize and encourage transgenderism among youth.โ
This is a significant move by theย GOP that deserves all our support.
The State Department's new policy is that any country that provides what they call โconversion therapy' rather than hormone treatment and/or surgery to confused underage children with possible gender dysphoria is violating their human rights.
However, pressuring kids to become โtrans' isn't considered โconversion therapy and is, therefore, ok.
As the lawmakers write:
The State Department's memo defines conversion therapy as any effort to โsuppress or change an individual'sโฆgender identity.โ This definition implies that counseling minors against gender transition is akin to electrically shocking minors to โcureโ 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 โtrans' 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 โcultural imperialism' โ 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.ย into โhuman rights abusers' to the U.S. State Department.
The medical authorities in these countries have concluded that there's little scientific support for underage โgender-affirming careโ (life-altering surgery and hormones) are (as Finland's official medical body put it) โexperimentalโ โฆ Sweden has banned gender surgeries for minors โ surgeries that are practiced in the United States.
As The Daily Signalย notes:
โฆmembers of the Republican Study Committee point to a leaked memo reportedly circulated by Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicating that the Biden administration may begin pushing other countries to endorse youthful โgender affirming careโโa euphemism used byย the media, activists, andย Democrats to describeย the more grisly-soundingย transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers.ย
The City Journalย explainsย that:
The memo represents an effort by Secretary Blinken to carry out President Biden'sย Executive Order 14075ย from last June. That orderย instructs agencies of the federal governmentย to do what they can to stop โconversion therapyโ for โLGBTQI+โ people. Following its release, Biden appointedย Jessica Sternย as Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons, a position created by the Obama administration but left unfilled under Donald Trump. Stern, who goes by โall pronounsโ โฆhas borrowed arguments against โconversion therapyโ for sexual orientation (where the evidence against the practice is strong) and applied them, unscientifically, to โgender identityโ (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 โa form of radical gender imperialism that threatens our relationships with other nations and harms our standing in the world,โ warning that โthe first consequence of this policy is to undermine our allies' regard for the United States' moral authority on human rights issues.โย
Such strict U.S. measures would ostracize countries that have banned โgender affirming careโ orย transgenderย surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers for minors, the lawmakers said.
โMany countries in Europe, including the United Kingdom, Finland, and Sweden, employ either โlast line of defense' policies on โgender affirming care,' or have banned gender surgeries for youth altogether,โ the letter noted. โThese more restrictive policies now risk making Western European nations โhuman 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 Venezuela.โ
The GOPย letter notesย that:
First and foremost, normalizing and encouraging transgenderism among children has no place in American society, especially when it is done by the federal government. Children in America and abroad shouldn't be exploited to advance a radical agenda.
The lawmakers add that the damage of this โgender 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: โThis initiative will give anti-American leaders ammunition to further propagate anti-American sentiment and policies.โ
The City Journal explains how insidious this policy is in practice:
The Blinken directive effectively turns American consulates and embassiesย into global โgender affirmingโ spies. Embassies are instructed to โsubmit robust information on the so-called โconversion therapy' practicesโ of host countries โas part of the annual Human Rights Reports.โ Jessica Stern's office will then devise an โaction plan to combat the practice across foreign policy and foreign assistance lines of effort.โ
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.ย 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
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions ofย American Liberty News.
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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 donโt 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 Molechโs Priest , how the Carthaginian culture vIewed child sacrifice.
You could learn much about this subject from a book entitled โThe Return of the Godsโ 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.
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.
Remember when everyone was opposed to the tribal mutilation of young girls?
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.
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.