Lengthy Report Details U.S. Pressure on Homosexual/Trans Issues Overseas

By | May 5, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 6 (C-Fam) The U.S. State Department has released a lengthy and detailed report on the pressure placed by the U.S. government on foreign governments and their citizens in order to promote homosexual/trans issues.

Alongside public media campaigns and official diplomacy at the United Nations, the report describes ongoing efforts of the State Department to train police forces and judicial systems to prosecute “hate speech” by political and religious opponents of gender ideology.

The report describes religious leaders and faith-based groups, including Christians and Muslims, as obstacles to global progress on homosexual/trans issues.

“Hate speech” is not a term that is well defined in international or national laws. It is widely understood to cover political and religious speech in opposition to the more controversial demands of the homosexual/trans lobby. These demands include hormone treatment for children, surgical mutilation to change sexual anatomy, transgender bathroom policies, and teaching children to explore their sexuality, including indulging homosexual inclinations.

The 134-page report describes the extensive involvement of all U.S. State Department offices and missions, as well as several federal agencies to promote such policies in immigration and refugee policies, law enforcement, women’s issues, health policy and other foreign assistance and programs.

It also documents the direct involvement of U.S. diplomats in court proceedings and legislative debates in several countries where these topics are highly controversial.

The report highlights the addition of “x” as a category alongside male female in U.S. passport applications. It details changes to citizenship rules that will allow individuals who identify as homosexual or trans to go abroad to contract children through surrogacy agreements and other artificial reproduction technologies to transfer U.S. citizenship to the children. And it describes special privileges reserved for refugees and asylum seekers who identify as homosexual or transgender.

The report also describes a joint effort of the U.S. State Department and the Library of Congress to “evaluate existing academic research for linkages between bias, discrimination, and violence, including against LGBTQI+ persons.”

The report boasts that over 200 U.S. embassies and offices around the world downloaded a media toolkit by the State Department’s Human Rights Office to post messages on social media to show support for “pride month” in 2021. The highest performing tweet of the campaign, with 25,000 impressions, stated: “We see you, and we support you, and we are inspired by your courage to accept nothing less than full equality.”

Among the campaign and diplomatic acts highlighted in the report are interventions to promote homosexual/trans issues by the U.S. Embassy to Pope Francis, including flying the rainbow flag and social media campaigns.

“No Holy See officials formally objected to the Embassy,” the report claims, even though it notes that the reaction to the U.S. promoting controversial social policies at the doorstep of the Pope has been “mostly negative.”

Among the social media posts from the embassy was a tweet about the U.S. embassy’s display of a rainbow flag during “pride month,” which according to the report “had the highest engagement of any social media message in the history of the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See.” The first twitter post of the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See was made in 2012.

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