Transgeneder Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Lesbian airhead black babydoll girlie toy Karine Jean-Pierre
Neo-Marxist Woke General Milley
Milley admits he would tell Chinese general if US launched an attack
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley admitted Wednesday that he would give his Chinese counterpart a heads up if the US launched an attack against Beijing, during a second day of grilling on Capitol Hill that touched on his two reported calls to the Chinese general.
”I said, hell, I’ll call you. But we’re not going to attack you,” Milley told the House Armed Services Committee about one of his conversations with Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army.
Milley was questioned about two calls he made to Li — in October 2020 before the presidential election and on Jan. 8, two days after the Capitol riot.
Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) asked Milley if he informed Li that he would give the Chinese advance notice of an impending offensive.
Milley said there was intelligence pointing to concerns China had of a possible attack and he relayed the “persuasive” intelligence to then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper and others in the Trump administration.
Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a congressional hearing Tuesday that he called his Chinese counterpart twice to inform him that there were no plans by the Trump administration to launch an attack on China.
These acts by General Milley are in fact treasonous. Yet this Neo-Marxist traitor is still chief of staff in the Neo-Marxist Biden regime.
Biden Administration Appoints Record Number of LGBTQI+ Officials
The United States currently has its most diverse administration ever, including the most LGBTQI+ officials. This follows the administration’s commitment to “ensure that United States diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons everywhere.”
Here are four of over 200 appointees who have broken new ground:
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg (above) is the first openly gay person confirmed to serve in a president’s Cabinet. As head of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Buttigieg is tasked with improving America’s transportation systems by increasing safety, improving infrastructure and engaging with innovative technologies.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the principal deputy press secretary at the White House, is the first openly gay woman and only the second Black woman in history to deliver the White House press briefing.
Ned Price is the first openly gay State Department spokesperson. Following a career at the CIA and the National Security Council, Price now communicates U.S. foreign policy to the world.
Dr. Rachel Levine is the assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is the first openly transgender person to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate for a federal position. In her role, Levine works to improve the health of all Americans and help the nation recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
LGBTQ Appointments in the Biden - Harris Administration
As of April 29, 2021 – the 100 Days mark of Joe Biden’s presidency – over 200 known LGBTQ people have been appointed to his administration, the most in history at this point in any administration.
LGBTQ Victory Institute’s Presidential Appointments Initiatives advocates for LGBTQ appointments and tracks the success. Below is a list of more than 200 LGBTQ appointees whose names are publicly available.
Asian Development Bank
Chantale Wong, U.S. Director of the Asian Development Bank with the rank of Ambassador*
AmeriCorps Corporation for National and Community Service
AJ Pearlman, Director of Public Health
Henry Hicks, Assistant to the Board of Directors
Michael Smith, Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service*
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Alberto Gonzales, Senior Advisor for External Engagement, Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
Brandon Chaderton, White House Liaison
Clavin Allen, Equity Commission’s Rural Community Economic Development Subcommittee
Edyael Casaperalta, Senior Policy Advisor at the Rural Utilities Service
Fernando Brigidi, Special Assistant with the Office of the Deputy Secretary
Hunter Henderson, Confidential Assistant, Farm Service Agency
Joseph Nolan, Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Administration
Kenneth Corn, USDA State Director, Rural Development, Oklahoma
Department of Commerce
Abigale Belcrest, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary, Bureau of Industry and Security
Brooks Mear, Deputy White House Liaison
Chakir’ Underdown, Deputy Director, Executive Secretariat
Dominique Lee, Special Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff-External
Ellie Collinson, Chief of Staff to the Chief Financial Officer/Assistant Secretary of Administration
Hazel Rosenblum-Sellers, Special Assistant and Scheduler
Ike Umunnah, Director of Public Affairs, Economic Development Administration
Jed Kolko, Undersecretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs*
Jonathan Lovitz, Senior Advisor and Director of Public Affairs for the Economic Development Administration
Michale Carey, Chief Protocol Officer and Senior Advisor
Mira Patel, Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary
Robert Williams, Deputy Director for Intergovernmental Affairs NTIA
Roddy Flynn, Deputy Director of Congressional Affairs at the National Telecommunications & Information Administration
Samuel Marquez, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development
Taylor Carter-Disanto, Special Assistant, Minority Business Development Agency
Vince Micone, Executive Director for Enterprise Services
Department of Defense
Alex Wagner, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs*
Andrea Goldstein, Assistant Director, Force Resiliency, Department of the Navy
Anthony Johnson, Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Ben Chao, Special Assistant, Budget and Appropriations Affairs
Beth George, Principal Deputy General Counsel
Dori Friedberg, Special Assistant
Farouk Ophaso, Senior Advisor, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)^
Gina Ortiz Jones, Undersecretary of the Air Force*
J. Todd Breasseale, Deputy Assistant to the Secretary for Public Affairs (Media)
Jamal Brown, Deputy Press Secretary^
Jesse Salazar, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Industrial Policy^
Jonah Glick-Unterman, Special Assistant, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Karim Farishta, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
Leon Ratz, Special Assistant
Matt Williams, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Senate Affairs
Richard Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy
Shawn Skelly, Assistant Secretary for Readiness*
Victor Estevez Garcia, Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Western Hemisphere
Will Goodwin, Deputy Chief of Staff for the Secretary of the Army
Department of Education
Alex Payne, Special Assistant, Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs
Chauncey Alexander, Special Assistant
Heather Ward, Special Assistant, Office of Postsecondary Education
Hussein Salama, Traveling Digital Director
Jennifer Rodriguez, Confidential Assistant, Office of the General Counsel
Joaquin Tamayo, Chief of Staff Office of the Deputy Secretary
Kristina Ishmael, Deputy Director, Office of Education Technology
Levi Bohanan, Special Assistant Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Richard Williams, Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary
Sam Ames, Chief of Staff for the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights
Shin Inouye, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Communications and Outreach
Stephen Lamb, Confidential Assistant, Office of Postsecondary Education
Suzanne Goldberg, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Operations and Outreach, Office for Civil Rights
Department of Energy
Andrew Wills, Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response
David Mayorga, Director of Public Affairs
Ellie Collinson, Chief of Staff to the Chief Financial Officer, Assistant Secretary of Administration
Gabriel Hernandez, Special Assistant in the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management
Isha Korde, Special Assistant to the White House Liaison
Jeremiah Baumann, Deputy Chief of Staff
Jeff Marootian, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Josh Inaba, Special Assistant, Office of Science
Michael Harris, Legislative Affairs Advisor
Robert Golden, Special Advisor to the Chief of Staff
Sandie Raines, Special Assistant
Suzanna Steele, Special Assistant to the White House Liaison, Office of the Secretary
Tarak Shah, Chief of Staff^
Department of Homeland Security
Adam Hunter, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Immigration
Alexander Fox, Scheduler to the Secretary
Blake Narendra, Director of Legislative Affairs
Cassie Wilcox, Special Assistant to the Secretary
Chris Magnus, Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection*
Eduardo Maia Silva, Assistant Press Secretary
Emily Stanley, Special Assistant to the Director, CISA
Grace Meyer, Special Assistant, Office of the Deputy Secretary
Justin Knighten, Director of the Office of External Affairs at FEMA
Nathan Williams, Special Assistant and Advisor
Reese McCranie, Senior Advisor, Office of Public Affairs, CBP
Patrick Hobart, Special Assistant, Office of General Counsel
Steven Feder, Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Ben Winter, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development^
Beth Niblock, Chief Information Officer, Chief Information Office
Brian Castro, Acting General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations
Brian McCabe, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development
Elly Kugler, Senior Counsel, Office of General Counsel
Faith Rogers, Senior Advisor
Jenn Jones, Chief of Staff
Joe Carlile, Senior Advisor for Budget, Policy, and Programs to the Secretary
Lacey Rose, Director of Strategic Communications, Office of Public Affairs^
Marion McFadden, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development
Solomon Greene, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Policy Development and Research and nominee for Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research**
Stephen Lucas, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing
Zachary Nosanchuk, Assistant Press Secretary
Department of Health and Human Services
Adrian Eng-Gastelum, Senior Advisor for Broadcast and Coalitions Media
Adrian Shanker, Senior Advisor on LGBTQI+ Health Equity in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Brian Altman, Deputy Director for the Administration on Aging at Administration for Community Living
Brian Kaplun, Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff
Daniel Tartakovsky, Associate Director of Science and Policy, Office of the Surgeon General
Demetre Daskalakis, CDC’s Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
Hannah Katch, Senior advisor at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Ingrid Ulrey, Region 10 Director
Larry Handerhan, Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor Administration for Children and Families
Larry Sandingo, Senior Advisor, Administration for Children and Families
Lynn Rosenthal, Director of Gender-Based Violence at the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Laura Durso, Chief of Staff for Civil Rights^
Michael Huggins, Senior Advisor, Office of Civil Rights
Molly Doris-Peirce, Special Assistant, Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs
Admiral Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health*
Sarah Boateng, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Steven Lopez, Counselor to the Secretary, AHRQ/FDA/NIH
Department of the Interior
Giovanni Rocco, Deputy Press Secretary
Mike Martinez, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Fish and Wildlife and Parks
Tyler Cherry, Press Secretary
Winnie Stachelberg, Senior Advisor and Infrastructure Coordinator
Department of Justice
Carlos Uriete, Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs*
Hector Ruiz, Office of Legal Policy
Department of Labor
Ahmad Ramadan, Legislative Officer
Chris Godfrey, Director, Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs
Jack Jackson, Tribal Liaison, Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs
Julian Purdy, Chief of Staff, Veterans’ Employment & Training Service
Malbert Smith, Legislative Officer
Patrick Oakford, Chief of Staff for the Assistant Secretary for Policy
Wendy Chun-Hoon, Women’s Bureau Director
Department of State
Amber Mclntyer, Director of Operations, United States Mission to the UN
Ariane Tabatabai, Senior Advisor for the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
Christopher Lamora, Ambassador to Cameroon*
David Pressman, Ambassador to Hungry*
Eric Nelson, Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina*
Erik Ramanathan, Ambassador to Sweden*
Francisco Bencosme, Senior Advisor for East Asia
Jeff Daigle, Ambassador to Cape Verde*
Jessica Stern, U.S. Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons
Jirair Ratevosian, Senior Advisor for the Office fo Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy
Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, Senior Director for Climate Finance, Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
Marc Ostfield, Ambassador to Paraguay*
Marcus Switzer, Deputy Chief of Protocol
Ned Price, Spokesperson
Randy Berry, Ambassador to Namibia**
Reggie Greer, Senior Advisor to the U.S. LGBTQI Special Envoy
Robert Bacon, Senior Congressional Advisor in the State Department Bureau of Legislative Affairs.
Roger Nyhus, Ambassador to Barbados, the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines**
Robert Gilchrist, Ambassador to Lithuania*
Rufus Gifford, Chief of Protocol, with the rank of Ambassador*
Scott Miller, Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein*
Sean Bartlett, Senior Advisor, Bureau of Global Public Affairs
Tobin Bradley, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
Department of Transportation
Arlando Teller, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tribal Affairs
Charlene Wang, Special Assistant, Federal Highway Administration
Dani Simons, Director of Public Affairs
Emma Tyler, Associate Director for Governmental Affairs
Joseph Jarrin, Senior Advisor for Management and Budget, Office of the Secretary
Justin Ramirez, Program Manager in the Office of Public Engagement in the Office of the Secretary
Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation*
Philip McNamara, Assistant Secretary for Administration
Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, Deputy Director of Public Engagement
Tatjana Kunz, Special Assistant for Policy
Department of the Treasury
Aditi Hardikar, Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary
Damian Richardson, Special Assistant^
Dayanara Ramirez, Spokesperson^
Lowery McNeal, Digital Strategy Specialist, Office of Public Affairs
Department of Veteran Affairs
Kayla Williams, Assistant Secretary, Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs
Environmental Protection Agency
Brent Efron, Special Assistant, Office of Policy^
Casey Katims, Deputy Associate Administrator for Intergovernmental Relations
Eric Wachter, Director, Office of the Executive Secretariat
Debra Shore, Regional Administrator for EPA Region 5
Dorian Blythers, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations
Eunjung Kim, Special Assistant, Office of Air and Radiation
Johnathan Garza, Special Assistant, Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations
Jon Monger, Assistant Deputy Administrator
Maxwell Levy, Special Assistant, Office of Public Engagement
Rodney Snyder, Senior Advisor for Agriculture Office of the Administrator
Executive Office of the President
Adam Grogg, Deputy General Counsel, OMB
Alex Haskell, Senior Deputy Associate Counsel, Presidential Personnel Office
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Allie Peck, Senior Legislative Affairs Advisor, Office of Legislative Affairs
Andrew Hebbler, Assistant Director for Health and Life Sciences, OSTP
Anthony Bernal, Sr. Advisor to FLOTUS Dr. Jill Biden
Anthony Pascua Jr. U.S Digital Service
Azza Cohen, Video Producer, Office of the Vice President
Bechara Choucair, Vaccination Coordinator
Billy Silk, Senior Associate Director, PPO
Brendan Cohen, Platform Manager
Carlos Elizondo, White House Social Secretary
Chad Maisel, Director of Racial and Economic Justice, DPC
Connor Goddard, Senior Associate Director at the White House
Curtis Ried, Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs, NSC
Dave Noble, Director of White House Management and Administration
David Gins, Office of the Vice President^
David Shimer, Policy Advisor, NSC
David Nurnberg, Associate Director Office of the Social Secretary
Edgar Estrada, Associate Director of Special Projects and Special Assistant to the Second Gentleman
Elizabeth Carr, Tribal Advisor to the Director, OMB
Ella Lipin, Senior Advisor, NSC
Ellen Qualls, Consultant, OSTP
Emma Beckerman, Research Associate
Emmy Ruiz, Director of Political Strategy and Outreach
Ernesto Apreza, Deputy Press Secretary, Office of the Vice President
Ernesto Rodriguez, Senior Advisor, Congressional, Legislative, and Intergovernmental Affairs, OMB
Gabriel Uy, Associate Director, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs^
Garret Lamm, Deputy Director of Presidential Correspondence
Gautam Raghavan, Director, Presidential Personnel Office
Grace Smith, Scheduler, Council of Environmental Quality
Hannah Bristol, Associate Director of Public Engagement
Harold Philips, Director of the Office of National Aids Policy
Howard Ou, Associate Director of Public Engagement
Ike Hajinazarian, Regional Communications Director
Ike Irby, Policy Advisor in the Office of the Vice President
Jamie Citron, Special Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel
Jamie Keene, Domestic Policy Council
Jamie McFarlin, Domestic Policy Council
Jesse Bernstein, Director for Human Rights and Civil Society at NSC
John Elias, Senior Deputy Associate Counsel, Presidential Personnel Office
John W. McCarthy, Senior Advisor to the Counselor to the President
Jordan Finkelstein, Special Assistant to Anita Dunn
Jordan Orosz, Deputy Associate Counsel and Tax Counsel, Presidential Personnel Office^
Julian Gewirtz, Director for China, NSC
Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Press Secretary
Kei Koizumi, Principal Deputy Director for Policy, OSTP
Kevin Muños, Assistant Press Secretary
Kings Floyd, Researcher, Presidential Personnel Office
Loren Dent, Director of Correspondence, Office of the Vice President
Lucas Acosta, White House Director of Broadcast Media
Marc Aidinoff, Senior Advisor and Acting Chief of Staff, OSTP
Marco Sanchez, Associate Director for Domestic Agency Personnel
Matt Hill, Senior Associate Communications Director
Matt Groum, Associate Director for Candidate Recruitment, PPO
Matthew Hernandez, Personnel Vetting Chief of Staff, Presidential Personnel Office
Michael LaRosa, Press Secretary to Dr. Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States
Olivia Raisner, Traveling Content Director
Pili Tobar, Deputy White House Communications Director
Ray Dyson, Associate Director, PPO
Robbie Ha, Special Assistant for Economic Mobility and Racial Justice & Equity, DPC
Ruben Gonzales, Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Agency Personnel, PPO
Sean Christiansen, Policy Advisor, Office on COVID-19 Response
Stephen Goepfert, Special Assistant to the President
Stuart Delery, White House Counsel
Teresa Tolliver, Associate Director, PPO
Terry Moynihan, Deputy Director for Research
Tim Maurer, Director for Technology and Democracy, NSC
Thomas Isen, Special Assistant
William Rusche, Research Lead, Presidential Personnel Office
Zachary Bernstein, Director for Strategic Stability and Regional Security, NSC
Zachary Liscow, Chief Economist, OMB
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Chris Van Es, Senior Vice President for Communication and External Engagement
Farm Credit Administration
Vincent Logan, Member of the Farm Credit Administration
Federal Aviation Administration
Marc Nichols, Chief Counsel
Federal Communications Commission
Alejandro Roark, Consumer and Government Affairs Bureau Chief
Gigi Sohn, Commissioner^
Government Services Administration
Jacky Chang, Senior Advisor on Technology
Nathan Osburn, Speechwriter
Judicial Nominees
Alison Nathan, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit*
Ana Reyes, United States District Court for the District of Columbia**
Beth Robinson, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit*
Casey Pitts, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California**
Charlotte Sweeney, United States District Court for the District of Colorado*
Daniel Calabretta, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California**
Gina Mendez-Miro, United States District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico**
Jamar Walker, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia**
Nina Morrison, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York*
William Pocan, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin^
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Kayla Ratnasamy, Special Assistant to the Administrator
Thomas Zimmerman, Senior Advisor for Policy Coordination
Office of Personnel Management
Margot Conrad, Executive Director, Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCO) Council, and Senior Advisor to the Director
Ernesto Rodriguez, Senior Advisor, Congressional, Legislative, and Intergovernmental Affairs, OPM
Jason Tengco, White House Liaison
Viet Tran, Spokesperson and Director of Press Relations, OMB
Scott Syroka, Deputy Communications Director
Tiffany Worthy, Senior Advisor for Appointee Leadership Development
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Christy Abizaid, Director of National Counterterrorism Center*
Peace Corps
Troy Blackwell, Spokesperson and Director of Press Relations
Selective Service System
Daniel Sohn, Selective Service System Local Board Member
Small Business Administration
Francisco Sanchez, Jr. Associate Administrator, Office of Disaster Assistance
Han Nguyen, Acting Associate Administrator
Jennifer Knight, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Textiles, Consumer Goods, and Materials
Jonathan Alter, Senior Advisor, Office of Investment and Innovation
Julie Verratti, Associate Administrator of Field Operations
Larry Webb, D.C. District Director
Mark Madrid, Associate Administrator for the Office of Entrepreneurial Development
Olivia Shestopal, Director of Advance
Terrence Clark, Director of Communications, Office of Communications & Public Liaison
Veronica Pugin, Senior Advisor in the Office of Capital Access
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Anka Lee, Senior China Policy Advisor
Blair Mallin, Scheduler to the Administrator
Eric Jacobstein, Senior Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean
Jay Gilliam, Senior LGBTQI+ Coordinator
Lauren Post, Senior Advisor, Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance
Liz Leibowitz, Pillar Lead for Policy, Engagement, and Communications, COVID-19 Task Force
Michael Michner, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Resilience and Food Security
Nabila Baptiste, Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean
Nigel Stone, Special Assistant to the Administrator, Legislative and Public Affairs
U.S. Board and Commissions
Cathy Harris, Chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board**
Chai Rachel Feldblum, Commissioner, U.S. Ability One Commission
Christopher Morgan, Member of the National Council on the Arts
Christy Goldsmith Romero, Commodity Futures Trading Commission*
Claudia Slacik, Chair, Board of Directors, Securities and Investor Protection Corporation*
David Bohnett, Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
Eric Fanning, Member, Board of Visitors to the U.S. Air Force Academy
Gabriel Cazares, Commissioner, U.S. Ability One Commission
Joseph Falk, Member, U.S. Institute for Peace
Katherine Rice, Presidents Commission on White House Fellows
Paul Angelo, Member, Board of Visitors to the U.S. Naval Academy
Paul Boskind, Member, President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Robert Garcia, Trustee of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
Sarah McBride, Member, Commission on Presidential Scholars
Sharon Kleinbaum, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedoms
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Member, Board of Visitors to the U.S. Air Force Academy
Todd Harper, Chair, National Credit Union Administration*
Tori Cooper, Presidents Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
U.S. Census Bureau
Meghan Maury, Senior Advisor
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
Aparna Shrivastava, Deputy Chief Climate Officer
U.S. Mission to the UN
Josh Black, Senior Advisor to the U.S Ambassador to the UN
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Aditi Hardikar, Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary
Dayanara Ramirez, Spokesperson^
Kristen Lynch, Deputy Assistant Secretary
U.S Office of the Trade Representative
Aruna Kalyanam, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy
Christopher Wilson, Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator
Michael Kikukawa, Spokesperson
Veterans Affairs
Sue Fulton, Assistant Secretary Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs
Kayla Williams, Assistant Secretary Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs^
Are you an out LGBTQ+ appointee?
Let us know. Please reach out to Jonathan Dromgoole at appointees [@] victoryinstitute.org
Updated March 6th, 2023
* Nominated and Senate-Confirmed
** Nominated, Pending Senate-Confirmation
^ Former Appointee or candidate for appointment
https://victoryinstitute.org/programs/presidential-appointments-initiative/lgbtq-appointments-in-the-biden-harris-administration/
The Rapidly Expanding Transgender Cult Is The Product Of Cultural Marxism
Cultural Marxism is dystopia peddling utopia through grievance narratives and rank emotionalism, the hallmarks of transgenderism.
In a surreal moment at the Country Music Awards last week, co-host Kelsea Ballerini joined with several drag performers to belt out a campy version of her single, “If You Go Down (I’m Goin’ Down Too),” an anthem taking aim at Tennessee laws denying wrongly named “gender-affirming care” for children.
The performance was steeped in queerness, both in the pretend “oppression” of performers literally center stage at a nationally-broadcast awards show and in the academic sense, where drag serves as a kind of postmodern harlequin dance. Choreographed to confront its audience, the unspoken subtext of the number was that it’s time for you to pick a side, and you had better be careful which side you pick.
This was a brazen show of strength. Think “shock and awe,” only with lots of bedazzling.
A Vicious Activist Cult
The left picked their side. And the side they picked was the side of a school shooter who became for them an emblem of their cultural movement: Cast as a victim of “hateful” traditional religious values, a tragic figure broken by her desire to “be seen,” the shooter was sainted, her death a kind of religious redemption play. The narrative coalesced around her supposed suffering because the left was never going to surrender its stranglehold on politicized victimhood. That’s where all the power is.
At the tip of the cultural Marxist spear today is the trans cult. Just a year ago, it was the racialist cult of Black Lives Matter. Their presence is smothering in cultural spaces by design. In fact, their defiance of norms is predictable. After all, over the last seven years or so we’ve seen veneers of civil comradery peeled back, or else worn so thin as to become transparent.
A public pause to mouth the platitudes of togetherness is no longer required in a society so clearly divided along ideological lines. Indeed, such niceties are ridiculed as a sign of weakness or inauthenticity. “Where was your Christian god that day?” the left sneered. “Guess your church can’t protect you, after all.”
In glib taunts that displayed their misunderstanding of God’s earthly role in traditional religions, they laid their ideology raw before the bodies of three 9-year-olds were even cold. And that ideology, like the martyr it created when it embraced the killing of Christians as a blasé bump on the road to their utopia, now wants to be seen. The devil wants his due. There can be no other explanation for the leftist urge to celebrate the “visibility” of a vicious activist cult, or to claim “transgender Americans shape our Nation’s soul,” especially in the immediate wake of the slaughter of Christians by a trans person. Their ostentatious obeisance to these damaged people was a liturgy performed with rapturous audacity on the American stage. It, too, was meant to “be seen.”
Whether it’s a country music drag act, a trans-identified light beer, a trans-allied wizard, or a march by college students demanding the surrender of natural rights to the state, the memetics of cultural Marxism is performative, phony Maoist struggle sessions delivered in swarms to project strength and to dispirit opponents by displaying the inevitability of the mob and its power. It’s a cultural troll. It’s their way of telling you that they are in charge and that you are helpless. You will conform. You must. What else is there?
It was in response to this attempted coup against Western liberal culture and the Enlightenment itself that I’ve written what I believe to be a clarion call for the individualist; but it, too, was something of a performance: It proclaimed, but it didn’t explain.
Cultural Marxism Demands Cultural Hegemony
Briefly, we must reject the premises of the cultural Marxist because cultural Marxism itself cannot live peaceably with federal republicanism or individual autonomy. In fact, it demands the opposite: All things are constrained by the state and its desires. Rule must be universal. Governing individuals is like herding cats, whereas ruling over a collective molded by both state pressures (law, force) and social forces (shame, shunning) is a more gratifying task, especially because the molding, if done well, creates a populace that reflects back the will of the state to itself. The state is now God, and its citizens, made in the state’s image, are its supplicants.
The whole of the cultural Marxist project is to create and maintain cultural hegemony. It’s that sameness we saw in the uniformed Maoists with identical haircuts, and the sameness we see in our own social justice Red Guard with their ubiquitous cotton-candy hair and tribal piercings. There can be no deviation from the new standards, built atop the rubble of old traditions the Marxists seek to destroy. To create the New Man, you must kill off the Olds. To arrive at Year Zero, you must erase all those years that came before it. To save the culture, you must first destroy it completely.
Cultural Marxism is dystopia peddling utopia through grievance narratives and rank emotionalism. It grants the self-styled dispossessed enormous power over those it casts as oppressors, which is itself determined by an intersectional calculus among victim groups.
Yet this power is temporary. Because what its authors seek, ultimately, is authoritarian. The useful idiots will soon be replaced by a ministerial elite, who will guide the filthies during The Great Reset. With policed conformity. Asceticism. Sameness. Every thought you think, every word you utter, and every move you make, must be approved by the state. And you’ll beg them for that privilege.
Blinded By ‘Being Seen’
The useful idiots enjoy wielding power, but they never seem to recognize that once they’ve ground down all opposition and extirpated all difference, once they’ve rooted out every intolerance they can conjure, there are no more battles to fight, no more ideas to be born, no more purpose left to live. To speak in a language they understand, their project reduces us to the means of production, slaves to the most successful oligarchs, earthly deities who delight in our serfdom, providing us safety and sustenance in exchange for conformity, and a surrender of self to a greater good they determine. Enlightened feudalism, in short. And we’re tilling their fields.
But that’s the endgame, and those who’ve embraced the cultural Marxist paradigm can’t see it coming. Their identity politics and the power their “oppression” yields appeal to their egos. They are blinded by the narcissism of “being seen,” and by the thrill of cultural control, however temporary. They revel in bullying.
All of our major institutions have taken up the trans cause for the same reasons they took up the cause of BLM: to gather power, destroy norms, attack traditions, and create the conditions of tribalism that must exist before the collective comes together out of the ruins of universal cancellation. The last man standing is the New Man, the perfect servant to a benevolent master.
Where we once were conceived of statist authoritarianism as an iron boot forever pressing on our necks, today it’s a Christian Louboutin red-bottomed pump, worn by a dude in a lace dress and zebra thong, stomping on our faces forever. Only we’re compelled to dig the kink.
The revolution will be accessorized, and you’ll learn to like it, or else.
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It is amazing that the American people are so susceptible to serially abusive, codependent manipulation by these leaders. The amount of mental instability must be legendary. Nothing wrong with being gay but our culture has gone off the deep end with it all.