Biden Declares that U.S. Will ‘Combat the Criminalization by Foreign Governments of LGBTQI+…Conduct’ By CNSNews.com Staff
President Joe Biden issued a memorandum for the heads of federal executive agencies and departments instructing them that the bureaucrats working under them should “combat the criminalization by foreign governments of LGBTQI+ status or conduct’ and “ensure that United States diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons everywhere.”
Biden’s directive was called: “Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World.”
“This memorandum reaffirms and supplements the principles established in the Presidential Memorandum of December 6, 2011 (International Initiatives to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons),” Biden said. “That memorandum, for the first time, directed executive departments and agencies (agencies) engaged abroad to ensure that United States diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons everywhere. This memorandum builds upon that historic legacy and updates the 2011 memorandum.”
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“Around the globe, including here at home, brave lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) activists are fighting for equal protection under the law, freedom from violence, and recognition of their fundamental human rights,” Biden said.
“The United States belongs at the forefront of this struggle—speaking out and standing strong for our most dearly held values,” he said.
