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 during which LGB vacationers are warned concerning the potential dangers of travelling overseas.
The web site states:
LGB vacationers can face particular challenges overseas. Legal guidelines and attitudes in some nations might 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 would not have IT methods at ports of entry that may settle for different intercourse markers.
About 70 nations nonetheless contemplate consensual same-sex relations a criminal offense. In a few of these nations, people who interact in same-sex sexual relations might 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 executive 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 basic and incontrovertible actuality.
Below my course, 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 software of Federal legislation and administration coverage.
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Accordingly, my Administration will defend girls’s rights and shield freedom of conscience by utilizing clear and correct language and insurance policies that acknowledge girls 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 delight 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.
