Americans Pay $180,000 For Official To Travel Globe, Spreading Transgenderism
Currently, the U.S. sits at $34 trillion in debt. Despite this, Biden has continuously attempted to funnel thousands, millions, and sometimes billions of taxpayer dollars toward student loan forgiveness, Ukraine, and, perhaps most prominently, woke ideology. And many argue the latter is the worst of them all.
Examples of Biden’s financial recklessness include the amount of money he has put toward furthering LGBT ideology. Aside from the $1.4 million his administration approved for the Department of Health and Human Services to assist trans-identifiers, news broke on Monday that a Biden official makes six figures solely to travel and push the LGBT agenda throughout the globe.
In some ways, Jessica Stern has what some consider a dream job. She gets paid over $180,000 to travel the globe. So far, she’s ventured to at least 22 countries across each of the six continents. As someone who spent roughly seven of my formative years traveling throughout Europe, this job sounds fantastic! That is, until you find out what Stern actually does.
As the State Department’s special envoy, Stern is tasked with one purpose: to “Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons.” Her job includes “promoting far-left views on sex and gender, lobbying foreign governments, and assisting activist organizations.”
With scarcely a mention in the legacy media, some may be surprised to learn that Stern was appointed by President Biden in 2021 as part of his push for wokeism, which he classified as a “U.S. foreign policy priority.” And Stern seems to be fairly good at what she does.
“One of my goals in working for the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons is to shorten the time that people have to wait for their human rights to be respected and protected,” Stern said. “People say, ‘Fifty years ago it was worse than it is today, but that’s not good enough. If you live with discrimination and violence, you need protection now so we have to accelerate progress for LGBTQI+ persons everywhere.”
In her role as special envoy, she will work with governments, civil society organizations and the private sector to promote equal respect for the human rights of the LGBTQI+ community worldwide.
“Very few governments in the world have made a commitment to the integration of LGBTQI+ human rights in their foreign policy,” Stern said. “The U.S. can have an outsized impact by respecting the universality of human rights. The U.S. can be a source of hope and inspiration for others.”
Stern said in an interview that her priorities as envoy will include:
- Decriminalizing same-sex activity.
- Advocating for legal gender recognition.
- Strengthening non-discrimination policies.
- Expanding laws on gender-based violence so they are not restricted to marital and different-sex relationships.
Before joining the State Department, Stern spent her career as an advocate for gender, sexuality and human rights globally. Most recently she was executive director for OutRight Action International, a human rights organization headquartered in New York City. While there, she worked with other organizations to ensure that the U.N. had an independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, considered a historic victory for the LGBTQI+ community.
In her travels, Stern has met with several foreign government officials, including Brazil’s Minister of Human Rights, Foreign Affairs, Health, Labor, Justice, and Native People, as well as members of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, and members of Swedish Parliament. The list goes on.
Although we can’t give Biden all the credit, since Stern’s position was first created under the Obama administration — it was then left vacant under President Donald Trump. But Family Research Council has been tracking Stern’s work for several years. Two FRC experts, Center for Religious Liberty Director Arielle Del Turco and Senior Fellow for Regulatory Affairs Chris Gacek, wrote a report that exposed the Biden administration’s radical ideological push in foreign policy.
The report stated, “LGBT-identifying persons are already (rightly) protected by international human rights treaties by virtue of their personhood, not their sexual orientation or gender identity. Pushing LGBT-specific policies around the world is a coercive attempt to change foreign cultures and laws from afar and displaces human rights like religious freedom.”
In comments to The Washington Stand, Del Turco shared more of her concerns. “From the beginning, the Biden administration has had entirely misplaced foreign policy priorities.”
Del Turco continued, “There are wars taking place in Ukraine and Gaza, mounting hostility from China, and strained relations with U.S. allies. Yet, according to State Department officials, LGBT issues are a top foreign policy priority for President Biden. This is not only immoral, but ineffective foreign policy.” She emphasized that U.S. diplomats reflect “the American people as a whole,” not merely the federal government.
“Yet,” she added, “the Biden administration’s radical LGBT push does not represent all Americans, and many Americans would be appalled by the LGBT policies that American diplomats are urging other countries to adopt.”
Del Turco said that, as of right now, “The United States is still the most powerful country in the world, and we ought to steward that responsibility wisely.” However, she urged, “It is downright abusive for high-level U.S. diplomats like Stern to travel to smaller, more dependent countries and pressure them to enact radical social polices invented by leftist Western elites.”
She concluded, “Doing so is harmful not only to those societies, it also harms U.S. relations with these other countries that don’t want to endure the Biden administration’s bullying.”
POTET Opinion and Comments: Taxpayers who find this offensive, or conservatives who think this is offensive, have no choice in the matter. Biden’s America includes Global influence, and here it is in full display across the Globe. Stern from what we have been told, will not travel to the Continent of Africa, where homosexuality and transgenderism is illegal and banned. Leaders in the continent of Africa have been outraged over the policies of the Biden Administration, and decided to ban even Stern from coming to the country. President Biden issued the Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World in February. The document outlines U.S. foreign policy on the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons.
As bible believing Christians, how do we digest this? Our president claims to be a devout catholic, claims his roots are in Black Churches, yet promotes abortions and LBGTQI+ Agendas…We also read about how gays and lesbians ultimately acted in scripture as they became violent even requesting to have sex with angels who were sent to save Lot from the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The Gay and Transgender communities continue to spread their woke ideology and are getting FULL support from our Government doing it…There are only 2 reasons the Government of our country would do this…1) They truly do care about all people and want everyone to be treated equally…or 2)They understand how large this voting sector can be, and can see another “Black Vote majority group” in like manner rising up and want to invest in buying their votes. I’ll let you decide which one that is.
Originally published at The Washington Stand
