Adam Kredo writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a disturbing revelation involving the Biden administration.
The Biden administration’s special envoy for “LGBTQI+ Persons,” gender activist Jessica Stern, had a mandate to put gay and transgender issues at the forefront of American foreign policy, according to internal emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The trove of emails reveals just how far the Democrats went to impose fringe views about gender and sexuality on American diplomats and allied countries across the globe.
The internal emails, along with records of speeches and conference calls, span Stern’s tenure as the second ever “U.S. Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Persons.” They document how Stern performed, as she put it in an email, “the hard work of integrating LGBTQI rights into everything we do” in American diplomacy.
“People do not always fit within a male or a female designation,” she said on a conference call about passports in 2022.
Stern, a gender activist who’d never worked in government, was appointed to the special envoy role—a position created by the Obama administration that went unfilled during the first Trump term—in June 2021. She had sweeping ambitions. The materials cited in this report were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the Center to Advance Security (CASA) in America and provided exclusively to the Free Beacon.
“As I mentioned, the Task Force is something we relaunched after I joined State,” Stern wrote to a colleague about her LGBTQI Task Force.
“The idea is to convene a space for LGBTQI points of contact across State to regularly exchange information, receive training, and generally feel supported,” wrote Stern, who signed her emails with a note that she uses “all pronouns.”
Stern goes on to ask then-deputy assistant secretary Sarah Cross if Cross would be willing to speak about “the problems for LGTQI migrants generally” in her role at the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM).
