The Trump White Home is making it abundantly clear that it doesn’t endorse transgenderism and gender ideology.
On the State Division’s official web site, the time period LGBT now not exists and has been changed by LGB.
“LGB” stands for lesbian, homosexual and bisexual, whereas the “T” stands for transgenderism.
The change was picked up on a web page wherein LGB vacationers are warned in regards to the potential dangers of travelling overseas.
The web site states:
LGB vacationers can face particular challenges overseas. Legal guidelines and attitudes in some nations could have an effect on security and ease of journey.
Many nations don’t acknowledge same-sex marriage. Many nations additionally solely acknowledge the female and male intercourse markers in passports and wouldn’t have IT methods at ports of entry that may settle for different intercourse markers.
About 70 nations nonetheless think about consensual same-sex relations against the law. In a few of these nations, people who interact in same-sex sexual relations could face extreme punishment.
The State Division web site has changed “LGBT” with “LGB” pic.twitter.com/dwZR8ws56P
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) January 31, 2025
The transfer is a part of a wider effort by the Trump administration to push again on transgenderism and the rise in gender ideology.
On his first day in workplace, Trump signed an govt order entitled Defending Girls From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Organic Fact to The Federal Authorities.
The order states:
It’s the coverage of the US to acknowledge two sexes, female and male. These sexes aren’t changeable and are grounded in elementary and incontrovertible actuality.
Below my path, the Government Department will implement all sex-protective legal guidelines to advertise this actuality, and the next definitions shall govern all Government interpretation of and utility of Federal regulation and administration coverage.
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Accordingly, my Administration will defend ladies’s rights and defend freedom of conscience by utilizing clear and correct language and insurance policies that acknowledge ladies are biologically feminine, and males are biologically male.
Final week, it was reported that the State Division would implement what is called the “One Flag” coverage throughout all U.S. embassies, that means the flying of the LGBT pleasure or Black Lives Matter flag is now not allowed.
On Friday, Trump additionally ordered all federal staff to take away pronouns from their e-mail signatures as a matter of presidency coverage.
