The Biden administration has empowered professional activists to travel around the world on taxpayer money to promote transgenderism and gender ideology.
As the State Department's special envoy promoting the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people, Jessica Stern travels around the world attending so-called Pride events from Australia to Brazil to South Africa to Sweden. I am traveling. Stern boasts that she is the highest-ranking lesbian woman and is paid more than $180,000 a year to promote far-left views on sex and gender and to lobby foreign governments. , and are tasked with supporting activist groups.
Stern, who was appointed by President Biden in September 2021, will strengthen the president's broader efforts to harness the power of federal agencies and their bureaucracies for far-left agendas, with his activities hidden from the media. It has received almost no attention. In his first weeks as president, Biden tasked all federal agencies to “advance the human rights of LGBTQI+ people abroad.” Mr. Stern was singled out for his efforts, calling the mission “an American foreign policy priority.” ”
Stern's travels as envoy included Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Botswana, Canada, Germany, Greece, India, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Nepal, the Netherlands, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Vietnam.
“Good foreign policy is inclusive foreign policy, and that means having senior experts on LGBTQI rights,” Stern argued in an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations.
LGBTQI+ Health 🤝 LGBTQI+ Human Rights
I'm proud to work with you @StateDept Special Envoy Jessica Stern advances health equity and human rights for all! pic.twitter.com/mIr1MTPCrB— ADM Rachel Levine (@HHS_ASH) March 16, 2023
Stern uses global travel as a primary means to advance her priorities, including establishing “legal gender recognition based on the principle of self-determination” and addressing the “vulnerabilities of LGBTQI asylum seekers and refugees.” It is used to attend official meetings between the two countries. Government events and local celebrations.
For example, Stern attended a Pride parade in Lithuania in the summer of 2022 and was delighted to see so many children in the crowd.
“I saw a lot of kids at the Pride Parade. They didn't really know what it was. “I knew I could dance in the street,” Stern celebrated. “And I think that's an incredibly positive thing, because when you teach children a message of acceptance from an early age, it changes their lives.”
Stern also traveled to Brazil in January 2024 to participate in a “Trans Visibility” march organized by the Brazilian National Association of Crossdressers and Transsexuals. Mr. Stern met with a transgender Brazilian government employee. refers to oneself As a “cross-dressing boy.”
“We are marching towards a future where all transgender people can live with pride and fear,” Stern wrote on X.
I participated @laratsymmy & Indigenous LGBTQI+ Policy Coordinator Larissa Pankararu @AntraBrasilThe first national “Marcia” of Trans Visibility Day celebrating all transgender and non-binary Brazilians. We march toward a future where all transgender people can live with pride and fear. pic.twitter.com/XMOBizCmya
— Special Envoy Jessica Stern (@US_SE_LGBTQI) January 29, 2024
A State Department spokesperson said the department is “committed to promoting and protecting the freedom, dignity, and equality of all people around the world, including transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people.”
“Teaching messages of acceptance is critical to recognizing the humanity of LGBTQI+ people and combating violence and discrimination against them,” the spokesperson added.
While in Brazil, Stern spoke to civil society organizations about the importance of removing gender markers from national ID systems, and about the importance of removing gender markers from national ID systems, as well as “addressing the practice of conversion therapy and working with indigenous and indigenous peoples to end intersecting forms of discrimination.'' “To stand in solidarity with LGBTQI+ people of African descent.” ” The State Department envoy also met with Brazil's Minister of Human Rights, Foreign Affairs, Health, Labor, and Welfare, Justice, and Indigenous Peoples.
The South American country was just one of many destinations for her. Just a few months ago, in October, Stern traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, to “meet with the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swedish Agency for International Development Cooperation, and members of the Swedish Parliament.”
While in Stockholm, Mr. Stern also attended a meeting of the Global Equality Fund (GEF). The fund is a public-private partnership between government agencies, such as the State Department, and the private sector, and exists to “provide critical resources to civil society organizations (CSOs) and humanity.” Rights advocates, including those working to increase the visibility and empowerment of gay women, transgender and intersex people, and other marginalized members of the LGBTQI+ community. ” The GEF funds activists around the world to “counter anti-gender ideology,” and in Stern's words, “brave activists continue to push for change and push for more inclusive We're making it possible to build democracy.”
Stern, who flies the jet, also visited South Africa and Mauritius, a small island off the coast of Africa, in August 2023, meeting with “civil society, Mauritian government officials, and like-minded international partners.”
The envoy appeared on South African television to talk about a conference he attended in Mauritius, where activists called for “legal gender recognition based on the principle of self-determination” and a “national action plan for LGBTQI rights.” He said he was fighting. Adequate funding and staff. ”
In July 2023, Stern traveled to Mexico City, Mexico, met with activists and delivered a keynote address at the Victory Institute's LGBTI Political Leadership Conference of the Americas and Caribbean, where she announced that she was the highest-ranking lesbian woman in the nation. I was proud of that. Department.
She also criticized US legislation that seeks to protect children from sexual drag performances and medical interventions that attempt to change their gender. “It's an absolute tragedy,” Stern expressed her frustration.
This has been a busy summer for the envoy. The envoy also visited Toronto and Ottawa in June to receive the reward in recognition of Stern's “contribution to 2SLGBTQI+ people in Canada and around the world.” In Ottawa, she “met with Members of Parliament and senior Canadian international affairs officials to discuss efforts to jointly advance respect for the human rights of LGBTQI+ people.”
State Department officials traveled to Australia, Argentina, Peru, and Panama, speaking at Pride festivals and meeting with government officials and activists.
Before joining the State Department, Stern served as executive director of Outright International, a New York-based LGBT activist organization. The organization has been at the forefront of promoting transgender ideology at the United Nations, and in 2019 hosted a UN women event called “Gender Diversity: Beyond the Binary” and “Gender Diversity and Non-binary The first high-level conference on identity was held in 2019.'' United Nations Headquarters. ”
Stern's position, created under President Obama and left vacant under President Trump, has been instrumental in advancing transgender ideology and a diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda across federal agencies. He was reappointed by Biden.
The Biden administration has leveraged the federal bureaucracy to promote leftist doctrine across government agencies, but former Trump officials have hatched plans to fire those who interfere with the president's policies and hire new ones. ing.
Under another Trump administration, the president could re-invoke an executive order known as Schedule F that could fire thousands of bureaucrats with influence over policy. President Trump touted his plan at a rally: “We will pass significant reforms that will make all executive branch employees subject to firing by the president.”
Others are building a database of potential people to serve in the next administration and leave office through Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project, an initiative of the Heritage Foundation that aims to “pave the way for an effective transition.” It is preparing to fill the hole left by officials. It's a conservative government. ”
“It is not enough for conservatives to just win elections. If we are to save the country from the domination of the radical left, we need both a policy of governance and the right people to carry out this policy from day one of the next Conservative government.” Project 2025 states. In addition to creating a talent database, the initiative also establishes a policy agenda, training talent pools, and a 180-day plan for the next administration, all of which organize a coalition of more than 100 conservative organizations. .
But Stern is aware of the efforts to end his position, explaining in an interview how he wants the State Department to permanently focus on LGBT ideology. “We will look at and act on the question of how to institutionalize and depoliticize this agenda.”
“Human resources are policy, so we need human resources in the facility,” the envoy added. “I believe trashy LGBT rights activists deserve power.”
Mr. Stern has openly discussed the possibility that the next administration may remove him from office and involve him in the process. “I can't say we'll be here in two years,” Stern lamented. “Our eyes are always on the clock.”
