Even Water Can Advance a Leftwing Agenda

By Craig-Austin Rose | October 27, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 28 (C-Fam) As evidenced by a new U.S. government initiative, even water has been incorporated into the sexual revolution.

Vice President Kamala Harris launched the global water strategy in June 2022, operated by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Department of State. The strategy’s vision is to “achieve a water-secure world” by prioritizing the participation of “marginalized people and communities” through civil society organizations and local leadership. In addition to women and indigenous peoples, these marginalized groups include “sexual and gender minorities” to lead efforts for clean water.

The introduction to the strategy establishes water-related aid to progressive groups as an interest of national security. Under the Biden administration, ideological issues of abortion, homosexual/trans ideals, and other sexual policies are prioritized in foreign affairs. In the strategy, clean water is a means to “advance core democratic values” of “human rights [and] women’s empowerment.”

Interestingly, the only example of advancing women’s empowerment and human rights excludes biological women. Instead, the document cites sanitation training and leadership of transgender women in India as the model of addressing “critical sanitation needs while promoting the dignity, inclusion, and economic empowerment of marginalized groups.”

The document also focuses on “hygiene services” as a principal tenet of water security, yet even here, the document uses hygiene to advance the transgender agenda, using the term “menstruator” that most women would find foreign, and many would find objectionable:

“Menstrual Health and Hygiene is the ability of women, girls, and transgender and gender non-binary individuals who menstruate (“menstruators” or “individuals who menstruate”) to manage their menstrual cycles in a safe, dignified, healthy, and supported manner.”

Included in the water strategy is the USAID Menstrual Health and Hygiene technical brief, which details approaches to care for “menstruators,” with the term appearing twice as many times as “women.” The brief also details plans for comprehensive sexuality education, lessons teaching youth about trans/homosexual categories and sexual ideology, directing USAID to collaborate with “local organizations led by and for people who identify as LGBTQI+.”

In placing “local actors at the core of these efforts,” USAID will use water-related issues to build an “inclusive’ water and sanitation workforce and increase civil society engagement for leftwing NGO’s and other progressive groups in culturally conservative countries. The countries listed as principal targets for the strategy include some of the most culturally and politically conservative states on the global stage. Many of these countries, including Guatemala, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Indonesia have explicitly rejected abortion and western gender policy in United Nations proceedings.

In order to target these countries with progressive western ideals, the criteria listed to qualify high-priority countries for the water strategy extends beyond water-related needs to “economic and educational opportunities” for women and girls. These “opportunities” are instances of CSE and abortion rhetoric promoted by NGO’s and in classrooms.

As U.S. foreign policy continues to become a medium for sexual ideology, countries partnering with USAID are at risk of cultural-engineering efforts by western leadership and their promotion of “positive social and gender norms” and “norm-shifting interventions” to uproot cultural conservatism. Beyond direct USAID investments, the strategy calls for $1 billion dollars of financing over the next five years to advance its goals.

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