Biden Administration Actions Addressing Life, Family, and Religious Freedom
In his inaugural address on January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden made a firm commitment to unity: "Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: Bringing America together. Uniting our people. And Uniting our Nation." These words, while comforting, now appear to be nothing but a hollow promise. Biden's presidency thus far has been marked by actions that have further divided our nation, especially when it comes to the issues of life, family, and religious freedom. His administration has moved more aggressively than any previous presidential administration to undo federal pro-life policies and promote abortion, dismantle the biological realities of men and women in federal policy, and promote the LGBT agenda. He has also failed to uphold religious freedom in a satisfactory fashion, both at home and abroad.
In all of this, the Biden administration has seemed to be driven more by ideology than by the truth. Here are the top 5 lies that have been perpetuated by this administration:
- Weakened safety standards for the abortion pill regimen do not pose a threat to women.
- Military readiness requires taxpayers to cover abortion-related expenses for servicemembers.
- Self-perceived gender identity always overrides biological distinctions between the sexes.
- Civically engaged American citizens are violent domestic terrorists.
- Protecting minors from harmful, irreversible gender reassignment procedures is illegal discrimination and potentially fatal.
To see a full list of the Biden administration's actions on life, family, and religious freedom separated by year, click the arrows below.
Life
2021-01-20
On January 20, President Biden sent a letter to António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, stating the United States' intent to remain a member of the World Health Organization (WHO). The Trump administration had previously stated its intention to withdraw from WHO due to its inadequate COVID-19 response and its proactive advocacy for expanding abortion during the pandemic.
President
2021-01-22
On January 22, President Biden and Vice President Harris issued a statement on the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Describing the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision as a "foundational precedent" to which all judicial nominees should commit, the president and vice president called for Roe's codification.
President
2021-01-28
On January 28, President Biden issued an executive order on "Protecting Women's Health at Home and Abroad." This order:
- Repealed the Trump administration's Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy (PLGHA), which prohibited global health funds from going to foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that perform or promote abortion.
- Withdrew from the U.S.-led Geneva Consensus Declaration, a 34-country agreement that declared abortion is not an international human right and should never be promoted as a method of family planning.
- Took steps to resume funding of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which continues to partner with China despite the country's coercive abortion and sterilization practices.
- Ordered a review of the Trump administration's Protect Life Rule that governed Title X family planning funding.
HHS, DOS
2021-03-11
On March 11, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act (H.R. 1319), a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that had more to do with funding abortion than providing important relief to the American people. This bill lacked key abortion funding restrictions on over $459 billion, breaking decades of congressional precedent on restricting federal funding for abortion.
President
2021-03-17
On March 17, the White House issued a statement in support of the House resolution to remove the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The White House's statement said the ERA is necessary to ensure that no one's rights are denied on account of their sex. In reality, the ERA would do little to advance women's rights. Instead, it would mandate federal funding for abortion and eliminate sex distinctions in the law, thus eliminating the existing legal protections for biological women.
President
2021-03-18
On March 18, the Office of Population Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the Biden administration's plan to repeal the Trump-era Protect Life Rule governing Title X by the end of the year. This announcement was in direct response to President Biden's executive order issued on January 28.
HHS
2021-04-13
On April 13, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it would not be enforcing longstanding federal regulations that require chemical abortion drugs to be dispensed in person. These requirements were put in place to protect women against severe health complications known to arise from using these drugs. With this announcement, the Biden administration placed a pro-abortion ideology ahead of protecting women's health.
HHS
2021-04-15
On April 15, HHS followed through with the timeline set up in its March 18 announcement and published a proposed rule to repeal the Protect Life Rule. These rule changes would once again allow Title X family planning grants to go to abortion businesses and require grantees to provide abortion referrals to their patients.
HHS
2021-04-16
On April 16, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it would repeal the Trump-era policy that heavily restricted taxpayer funding of aborted fetal tissue research. The Trump administration's policy prohibited the NIH from using aborted fetal tissue in its internal research and required all external research grants using aborted fetal tissue to be approved by an ethics advisory board.
HHS
2021-04-20
On April 20, the White House issued a statement in support of the Washington, D.C. Admission Act (H.R. 51), a bill that would make D.C. the 51st state. This measure is unconstitutional and does not reflect our Founders' intention for the federal seat of government to be independent of any one state in the Union. Furthermore, D.C.'s admission as a state would nullify congressional control over D.C.'s budget, effectively allowing D.C. to fund elective abortions and expand legal access to recreational marijuana, among other things.
President
2021-05-07
On May 7, President Biden issued a proclamation on National Women's Health Week. This statement directly called for protecting access to "sexual and reproductive health care," which, according to the administration, includes abortion.
President
2021-05-17
On May 17, following the U.S. Supreme Court's announcement to take up a case involving Mississippi's 15-week abortion restriction, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki doubled down on President Biden's position to fund abortions and codify Roe.
President
2021-06-22
On June 22, the White House issued a statement in support of the Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act (H.R. 239). This bill would increase insurance coverage to 100 percent (including co-pay) for all FDA-approved forms of contraception for veterans. This includes abortifacients, like Plan B and ella.
President
2021-07-01
On July 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposed rule to once again allow abortion surcharge payments for Affordable Care Act (ACA) health plans to be collected with legitimate health care expenses in a single payment. The Trump administration had proposed a rule to follow the law of the ACA and ensure these payments were collected separately. The Biden administration’s proposed rule attempts to reinstate the Obama administration’s regulations which interpreted “separate” to mean together.
HHS
2021-07-26
On July 26, the White House issued a statement in support of a seven-bill appropriations package that removed several longstanding pro-life policy riders that restrict taxpayer funding for abortion. This is the first appropriations bill since 1976 to pass the U.S. House of Representatives without the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits Medicaid funding for abortion.
President
2021-07-27
On July 27, the White House issued a statement in support of the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill, specifically citing the increase in family planning funding that can go to international abortion businesses. This bill also removes the longstanding Helms Amendment, in place since 1973, which prohibits direct abortion funding abroad.
President
2021-07-30
On July 30, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissed a lawsuit against the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC), which had been charged with forcing a nurse to participate in an abortion against her conscience. This decision came after the Trump administration filed a suit in 2019 that found UVMMC to be in violation of the federal Church Amendment.
DOJ
2021-09-01
On September 1, President Biden issued a statement condemning Texas's heartbeat law that protects unborn life at around six weeks gestation, which is when an unborn child's heartbeat can be detected. He followed up with a second statement vowing to use his Gender Policy Council to direct HHS and DOJ to take any necessary actions to defeat this law and promote abortions in Texas.
President
2021-09-03
On September 3, when asked about his position on the Texas heartbeat law during a press conference, President Biden said he does not agree that life begins at conception. This represents a change from his previous position as a U.S senator and vice president, when he claimed to be "personally" pro-life and believed life begins at conception.
President
2021-09-06
On September 6, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a statement detailing how the DOJ is exploring all legal options to challenge Texas’s heartbeat law. He also announced that the DOJ would enforce the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act against anyone who intimidates or interferes with a person seeking an abortion in Texas.
DOJ
2021-09-09
On September 9, DOJ filed suit against Texas over the Texas Heartbeat Act in an attempt to stop a pro-life law that the courts have currently allowed to go into effect.
DOJ
2021-09-17
On September 17, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra announced new actions to promote abortion in Texas following the enactment of the Texas Heartbeat Act. These actions include increased Title X funding to bolster access to abortions in Texas. This directly contradicts Title X statute, which prohibits family planning funding from being used for abortions.
HHS
2021-09-17
On September 17, CMS published a final rule to once again allow abortion surcharge payments for ACA health plans to be collected with legitimate health care expenses in a single payment. The Trump administration had proposed a rule to follow the law of the ACA and ensure these payments were collected separately. The Biden administration's final rule would reinstate the Obama administration's regulations which interpreted "separate" to mean together.
HHS
2021-09-20
On September 20, the White House issued a statement in support of the Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act, officially known as the Women's Health Protection Act (H.R. 3755), sponsored by Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.). This sweeping legislation would enshrine late-term abortion into federal law while simultaneously striking down commonsense pro-life laws across the United States. It would also create a much more challenging standard for passing future laws protecting the unborn.
President
2021-10-04
On October 4, the Biden administration finalized rule changes to the Title X family planning program, once again allowing taxpayer dollars to subsidize Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. This is a reversal of Trump administration regulations that had ensured complete physical and financial separation between Title X services and abortion.
HHS
2021-10-27
On October 27, HHS announced an additional $256 million in Title X grants. This is the first open grant competition for Title X since the Biden administration rewrote the Title X regulations to allow grants to go to abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood. Abortion businesses will now be eligible to receive millions from this new grant opportunity.
HHS
2021-11-23
On November 23, HHS announced $35 million in American Rescue Plan Act grants to "help Title X grantees expand their capacity to provide telehealth services." This new grant funding is problematic in light of the Biden administration once again allowing abortion businesses to receive Title X grants and weakening FDA regulations to allow chemical abortion drugs to be prescribed via telemedicine.
HHS
2021-12-14
On December 14, HHS announced $9 billion in new Provider Relief Fund payments from President Biden's COVID-19 relief package. The Provider Relief Fund is meant for health care providers who have experienced revenue losses and expenses related to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, 33 Planned Parenthood affiliates have received a total of $12.5 million in taxpayer funding from the Provider Relief Fund.
HHS
2021-12-16
On December 16, the FDA made permanent changes to weaken the health and safety measures governing the dangerous chemical abortion drug mifepristone. These changes removed a longstanding requirement that chemical abortion drugs be dispensed in person only by a physician. The FDA will now allow these drugs to be prescribed online and dispensed through the mail. When making these changes, the FDA disregarded new evidence revealing the dangers chemical abortions pose to women.
HHS
2022-01-21
On January 21, HHS Secretary Becerra's announcement of a "Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force" miscategorized abortion as a legitimate form of reproductive health care. The task force will pursue policies that eliminate existing pro-life policies and increase abortions within federal programs. It will also partner with foreign NGOs to promote abortion globally and continue to treat abortion as a general healthcare service.
HHS
2022-01-22
On January 22, President Biden and Vice President Harris issued a statement on the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The statement called for the codification of Roe in the form of the Women's Health Protection Act. This sweeping legislation, more aptly described as the Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act, would enshrine late-term abortion into federal law while simultaneously striking down commonsense pro-life laws across the United States.
President
2022-02-02
On February 2, President Biden released a statement renewing the United States' commitment to promoting global health. Biden listed "advanc[ing] sexual and reproductive health and rights" as one of the top priorities and touted his repeal of the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy, which prohibited global health funds from going to foreign NGOs that perform or promote abortion.
President
2022-03-04
On March 4, HHS Secretary Becerra and Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine toured the Planned Parenthood of Northern New England abortion facility with Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan. The tour was to promote abortion access and the new Title X rule that allows taxpayer funding to go to organizations that provide abortions, like Planned Parenthood.
HHS
2022-03-08
On March 8, President Biden released a statement celebrating the first anniversary of the White House Gender Policy Council that included a reference to the Council's work promoting abortion.
President
2022-03-10
On March 10, HHS Secretary Becerra gave remarks at a NARAL Pro-Choice America event celebrating the organization's work to promote abortion in America.
HHS
2022-03-30
On March 30, HHS awarded $256 million in new Title X family planning grants that will go to abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood as the Biden administration responds to pro-life activity in the states.
HHS
2022-03-30
On March 30, 2022, the DOJ indicted nine pro-life activists with FACE Act violations for conducting a “rescue” at an abortion business in Washington, D.C., in which they attempted to block entrance to the business in order to prevent unborn children from being killed via abortion.
DOJ
2022-04-19
On April 19, Jennifer Klein, director of the White House Gender Policy Council, hosted a roundtable discussion with state legislators from Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma to devise a strategy to promote abortion legislation in pro-life states.
President
2022-05-03
On May 3, President Biden gave a speech supporting abortion and claiming a need to elect pro-abortion politicians in response to the leaked draft of the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
President
2022-05-03
On May 3, Vice President Harris attended the Emily's List National Conference and gave remarks supporting the organization and abortion policies. Emily's List is the largest organization that seeks to elect pro-abortion women to office.
President
2022-05-19
On May 19, Vice President Harris held a virtual meeting with abortionists from across the country to discuss how to provide abortions if Roe is overturned.
President
2022-06-06
On June 6, Vice President Harris and Senator Alex Padilla held a meeting in Los Angeles with faith leaders to discuss promoting abortion.
President
2022-06-24
On June 24, President Biden gave remarks supporting federal actions to promote abortion in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs to overturn Roe and return the question of abortion's legality to the people and their elected representatives.
President
2022-06-24
On June 24, Attorney General Garland issued a statement condemning the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs. The statement also claimed that states do not have the ability to ban mifepristone, the drug intended to kill the unborn child in the chemical abortion regimen.
DOJ
2022-06-25
On June 25, HHS released a new government-funded website entitled, "reproductiverights.gov" to help Americans find abortion providers.
HHS
2022-06-28
On June 28, HHS Secretary Becerra outlined a five-point plan to promote abortion following the overturn of Roe. This plan includes increasing access to chemical abortion, increasing abortion provider training, and stopping states from defunding abortion businesses from federal healthcare programs.
HHS
2022-06-30
On June 30, President Biden called for an exception to the Senate filibuster in order to pass a law codifying the federal right to abortion on demand established by Roe.
President
2022-06-30
On June 30, HHS announced $3 million in new Title X grants to help abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood adapt to the new landscape following the overturning of Roe.
HHS
2022-07-08
On July 8, President Biden issued an executive order entitled, "Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services." This executive order is the Biden administration's formal response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. It contains directives to convene volunteer lawyers to sue against pro-life legislation, use the Federal Trade Commission to go after pregnancy resource centers, and convene an interagency task force for an all-of-government response to promote abortion.
President
2022-07-11
On July 11, HHS announced new guidance on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). The new directive would turn this pro-life law, which requires screenings and basic treatment for emergency medical situations, into a tool to allow doctors to perform abortions in states where they were illegal.
HHS
2022-07-13
On July 13, HHS issued new guidance to pharmacies that claims refusing to fill prescriptions for abortifacient drugs or chemical abortion pills could be considered discrimination, wiping away any conscience protections for pro-life pharmacists.
HHS
2022-07-29
On July 29, President Biden announced several judicial nominations, including Julie Rikelman for the U.S. Circuit Court for the First Circuit. Rikelman has a history of pro-abortion activism, having led litigation efforts for an organization dedicated to establishing abortion as a “fundamental human right” and defended abortionists in court on several occasions, including in Dobbs. These things make her unfit to serve on the federal bench.
President
2022-08-01
On August 1, White House Counsel Stuart Delery, Attorney General Garland, and Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta convened a meeting of private law firms, bar associations, and law professors to encourage robust legal representation against pro-life laws and in support of abortion rights.
DOJ
2022-08-02
On August 2, the DOJ sued the state of Idaho over its law protecting life at conception. Despite Idaho's law having a clear exception for procedures that would save the life of the mother in an emergency situation, the DOJ claims that the Idaho law violates federal requirements to provide stabilizing treatment to pregnant women facing an emergency.
DOJ
2022-08-03
On August 3, President Biden issued an executive order entitled, "Securing Access to Reproductive and Other Healthcare Services." This is the second executive order issued by the Biden administration to promote abortion following the overturning of Roe. It sets up policies to pay for out-of-state travel for abortion through Medicaid and use sex discrimination laws to go after healthcare providers that will not provide abortions because of moral objections.
President
2022-08-26
On August 26, HHS announced a new effort encouraging states to apply for exemptions in order to expand abortion coverage in their state Medicaid programs. This was in response to the two executive orders signed by President Biden to promote abortion.
HHS
2022-09-01
On September 1, Vice President Harris spoke at a Democratic National Committee finance event. She claimed that the Dobbs decision took away a constitutional right to abortion, that in actuality never existed in the Constitution. Harris also characterized states protecting kids from harmful drugs and surgeries and protecting parental rights as "viciously attacking […] LGBTQ rights."
President
2022-09-02
On September 2, the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) announced an unprecedented action to immediately implement a new federal policy allowing VA facilities to perform and pay for abortions for veterans. Since 1992, federal statute has prohibited the VA from performing or counseling in favor of abortion.
VA
2022-09-13
On September 8, President Biden gave a speech at a reception for the Democratic National Committee. He deplored the fact that 14 states passed laws protecting the unborn after six weeks and 13 more may protect babies in the womb if Republicans take control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the midterm elections. Biden claimed that if Democrats keep the House and Senate, they will codify Roe v. Wade.
President
2022-09-13
On September 13, Vice President Harris convened civil rights leaders to discuss building coalitions between their organizations and the White House to promote abortion in America.
President
2022-09-20
On September 20, White House Gender Policy Council director Jen Klein convened a meeting with state legislative leaders to strategize ways that states can further promote abortion.
President
2022-09-23
On September 23, the DOJ charged Mark Houk, a Pennsylvania pro-life activist, with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Instead of pursuing normal means to bring the federal charge against Houk, the FBI sent an unwarranted SWAT team to his private residence to make the arrest.
DOJ
2022-09-29
On September 29, the DOJ charged Fr. Fidelis, a Franciscan priest in New York, with violating the FACE Act by blocking the entrance of a Planned Parenthood.
DOJ
2022-10-03
On October 3, the DOJ announced an agreement to resolve a federal lawsuit that was brought against pro-life activist Daniel Courtney for having blocked a patient from entering an abortion facility in Englewood, New Jersey.
DOJ
2022-10-04
On October 4, President Biden and Vice President Harris gave a speech to commemorate 100 days since Roe was overturned. They called for a codification of Roe and spoke of their efforts to undermine states that have chosen to pass and enforce laws protecting life at conception.
President
2022-10-04
On October 4, HHS announced $6 million in Title X Family Planning Research grants. The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, which originated as the research arm of Planned Parenthood, received $750,000 in grant money.
HHS
2022-10-04
On October 4, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona gave a speech claiming that college students need access to abortions in order to thrive in school and life. ED also released new Title IX guidance explaining that any college student who needs to travel out of state to get an abortion should be awarded time away from school.
ED
2022-10-05
On October 5, the DOJ unsealed a federal indictment against 11 pro-life activists in Tennessee for seemingly violating the FACE Act. The FBI arrested one individual, Paul Vaughn, with guns drawn in front of his 11 children at his family home.
DOJ
2022-10-20
On October 20, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin released a memo directing the creation of programs that will pay for service members to travel out of state to get abortions and shield U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) abortionists from prosecution under the more than 13 state laws that prohibit abortion from conception.
DOD
2022-10-28
On October 28, President Biden promised that if Democrats maintained control of the U.S. House of Representatives and expanded their Senate majority in the 2022 midterms, he would sign legislation to codify Roe v. Wade into law, thereby allowing legal abortion on demand through birth nationwide.
President
2022-11-10
On November 10, the Administration for Children and Families at HHS released new guidance prioritizing the placement of unaccompanied migrant children in states that have legal abortion.
HHS
2022-11-11
On November 11, in a Veteran's Day memo, the Biden administration highlighted its initiative to cover nearly all abortions at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics, in violation of federal law.
President
2022-12-23
On December 23, the DOJ issued an Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion to the U.S. Postal Service that interpreted the federal statute prohibiting the sending of abortion-inducing drugs through the mail as not applicable when “the sender lacks the intent that the recipient of the drugs will use them unlawfully.” This is a politically charged interpretation that seeks to shield mailers of abortion-inducing drugs.
DOJ
2023-01-03
On January 3, the FDA announced modifications to the drug safety program governing the chemical abortion pill mifepristone. It made the temporary repeal of the in-person dispensing requirement permanent. It also created a new program allowing retail pharmacies to become certified to fulfill prescriptions for mifepristone.
HHS
2023-01-22
On January 22, the White House issued a memorandum reaffirming the FDA’s decision to allow pharmacies to fulfill prescriptions for the chemical abortion drug mifepristone. The memo stated that the DOJ and HHS would work together to protect and expand legal access to abortion.
President
2023-02-16
On February 16, the DOD released guidance for implementing three new policies that expand abortion access in the military. These new policies, previously outlined in an October 2022 memo, will allow service members and their dependents to receive up to three weeks of paid leave and paid travel and transportation costs to go out of state to receive an abortion.
DOD
2023-02-22
On February 22, the DOJ charged eight pro-life activists with FACE Act violations for attempting to block the entrance of an abortion facility in Michigan.
DOJ
2023-02-24
On February 24, Vice President Harris delivered a speech in which she argued that the abortion drug mifepristone should be accessible to American women and criticized the court challenge to the FDA’s approval of the drug.
President
2023-03-01
On March 1, HHS Secretary Becerra released a statement about Women’s History Month in which he emphasized his support for abortion access.
HHS
2023-03-07
On March 7, Vice President Harris released a statement in support of a lawsuit filed in retaliation to the Texas Heartbeat Act, which protects unborn life when a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
President
2023-03-13
On March 13, Vice President Harris held a press call in which she characterized state laws protecting unborn life as “attacks on reproductive rights,” condemned states like Florida and Texas for their pro-life legislation, and lauded lawmakers in Michigan for establishing a right to abortion in their state constitution.
President
2023-03-16
On March 16, Vice President Harris traveled to Des Moines, Iowa, to speak with abortion providers, advocates, and state legislators. At the meeting, Harris emphasized the White House’s support for unrestricted access to abortion.
President
2023-03-21
On March 21, HHS Secretary Becerra met with leaders of national pharmacy chains and networks. In the meeting, he expressed his appreciation of the pharmacies planning to dispense the chemical abortion drug mifepristone.
HHS
2023-03-28
On March 28, in his opening statement in front of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Attorney General Garland noted that the DOJ’s budget request included funds for “defending federally-protected reproductive rights,” alluding to abortion.
DOJ
2023-04-07
On April 7, HHS Secretary Becerra released a statement condemning the Texas district court’s decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, which halted sales of the chemical abortion drug mifepristone in the United States. In the statement, Becerra vowed that the administration would “vigorously fight” the decision in court. (The U.S. Supreme Court later issued a stay on the district court’s decision, allowing the sale of mifepristone to resume while litigation continues.)
HHS
2023-04-12
On April 12, the Biden administration’s “Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare” announced a list of proposed actions in relation to abortion and “patient privacy.” The first of these actions was a proposed rule that would prohibit medical information from being shared to investigate, sue, or prosecute an individual for facilitating, providing, or obtaining an abortion.
President
2023-04-12
On April 12, the White House published a fact sheet detailing the administration’s history of supporting chemical abortion.
President
2023-04-13
On April 13, Vice President Harris and Attorney General Garland spoke at the meeting of the Interagency Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access and highlighted the administration’s prioritization of abortion access.
President
2023-04-13
On April 13, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gave a statement opposing Florida’s pro-life law that protects unborn life at six weeks gestation, calling the law “extreme and dangerous.”
President
2023-04-13
On April 13, Attorney General Garland made a statement about the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, which allowed the sale of the abortion drug mifepristone to resume but retained the lower court’s order reinstating previous FDA safety guidelines regarding the drug. Garland stated that the DOJ disagreed with the decision and would seek “emergency relief” from the U.S. Supreme Court.
DOJ
2023-04-15
On April 15, Vice President Harris spoke at the March for Reproductive Rights, a pro-abortion rally and protest held in Los Angeles in response to the Texas district court’s ruling to halt the sale of the abortion drug mifepristone.
President
2023-04-19
On April 19, Vice President Harris visited the University of Nevada to speak with the mayor of Reno about abortion access across the nation. During the conversation, Vice President Harris repeatedly decried states’ pro-life laws and voiced her support for abortion.
President
2023-04-21
On April 21, HHS Secretary Becerra issued a statement in support of the U.S. Supreme Court issuing a stay in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA. The stay allows the sale of the chemical abortion drug mifepristone to continue while the case is litigated.
HHS
2023-04-25
On April 25, Vice President Harris gave a 25-minute address at the “Fighting for Reproductive Rights” event at Howard University, touting the administration’s focus on abortion and various policies nationwide. The event was co-sponsored by several pro-abortion groups.
President
2023-05-04
On May 4, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gave a statement criticizing the passage of North Carolina’s pro-life law protecting unborn life at 12 weeks. Jean-Pierre vowed that the administration would fight to codify Roe v. Wade in federal law.
President
2023-05-12
On May 12, President Biden issued a proclamation during National Women’s Health Week in which he expressed his disapproval of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, falsely stated that “life-saving care” was being restricted by state-level pro-life laws, and called on Congress to pass legislation to establish a right to abortion in federal law.
President
2023-05-16
On May 16, Vice President Harris gave a speech at the 2023 We Are EMILY Gala, sponsored by the pro-abortion organization EMILY’s List, in which she mischaracterized state pro-life laws as restricting women’s access to necessary health care and praised Democratic governors for vetoing pro-life laws and signing legislation expanding access to abortion.
President
2023-05-24
On May 24, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made a statement during a press briefing criticizing Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s hold on high-level military promotions, saying that such a move threatens national security and military readiness. Tuberville has vowed to stand his ground until the Biden administration agrees to change course on its unlawful policy to use taxpayer funds for female servicemembers to travel out of state to receive abortions.
President
2023-05-25
On May 25, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre released a statement in opposition to the newly-enacted law in South Carolina protecting unborn life when a heartbeat can be detected, calling the law “dangerous” even though it will save many unborn children’s lives.
President
2023-06-14
On June 14 and 15, the White House hosted over 80 state legislators from over 41 states to discuss promoting abortion across the nation.
President
2023-06-23
On June 23, President Biden addressed a group of pro-abortion organizations, criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs and pushing for radical abortion policy across all 50 states and at the federal level. Vice President Harris also spoke at this event.
President
2023-06-23
On June 23, the White House released a fact sheet summarizing the Biden administration’s many pro-abortion actions in the year following Dobbs. These actions include working to expand chemical abortion, issuing an interim final rule to allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to perform and counsel in favor of abortions (contrary to federal law), and helping to facilitate women traveling out of state to receive abortions.
President
2023-06-23
On June 23, the White House released a report entitled “A Year Without Roe v. Wade: Working with States to Protect Reproductive Rights,” in which the Biden administration detailed the ways it has worked to promote abortion in the states in the year following Dobbs. The report referred to state laws protecting unborn children as “dangerous and extreme” and falsely asserted that pro-life laws limit women’s access to life-saving medical care.
President
2023-06-23
On June 23, President Biden signed an executive order directing the secretaries of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services to consider issuing guidance requiring private health insurers to cover all FDA-approved contraceptives, including emergency contraceptives (such as Plan B One-Step and ella) and other contraceptives that may act as abortifacients. This order is meant to make contraceptives more widely available, including over the counter, and may threaten conscience rights for pharmacists and employers as well as make it easier for minors to obtain contraception without parental involvement.
President
2023-06-24
On June 24, President Biden released a statement on the one-year anniversary of Dobbs, saying that the U.S. Supreme Court “took away a constitutional right” (which, in reality, did not exist). He vowed that his administration would work to enshrine a right to abortion in federal law. Vice President Harris made similar remarks in North Carolina.
President
2023-07-13
On July 13, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Opill (norgestrel) for nonprescription use, allowing women (including minors) to obtain the drug over the counter without ever seeing a physician. Opill is a progestin-only birth control pill that may act as an abortifacient. This move by the FDA signals to women that the drug is safe while disregarding hormonal birth control’s many potential side effects, such as a heightened risk for cancer and blood clots and worsening mental health. The approval also greatly increases the likelihood of minors obtaining the drug without parental knowledge or involvement.
HHS
2023-07-14
On July 14, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre released a statement regarding Iowa’s newly-enacted law protecting unborn life when a heartbeat can be detected, calling the law an “extreme ban” and falsely stating that such laws will restrict women’s access to life-saving health care.
President
2023-07-28
On July 28, Vice President Harris made remarks during a moderated conversation on “reproductive health” at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, discussing the recent passage of Iowa’s law protecting unborn life when a heartbeat can be detected. During the conversation, Harris characterized pro-life politicians’ advocacy for unborn children as “playing political games with people’s lives.”
President
2023-08-11
On August 11, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published a proposed rule to interpret the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (which requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers) to include abortion. It would force employers to provide extra days off so that their employees can receive abortions. It does not provide an exemption for employers who would object on conscience grounds.
*EEOC
2023-08-16
On August 16, HHS Secretary Becerra released a statement on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision upholding safeguards related to the use of mifepristone (the first drug in the two-pill chemical abortion regimen). Becerra decried the ruling and ironically claimed that it would “have a devastating impact on women’s health,” even though it is mifepristone that threatens women’s health.
HHS
2023-08-25
On August 25, HHS announced an award of $23 million to support Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Programs. These programs focus on contraception-based sex education, normalize teen sex, and fund abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood.
HHS
2023-09-29
On September 29, HHS released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking public comment on how to require health insurance plans to cover certain preventive services without a prescription, including contraceptives that may act as abortifacients and pose increasingly known health risks to women. This is part of the Biden administration’s effort to not only ensure health coverage of contraceptives but to make them available over the counter, which has the potential to threaten conscience rights for pharmacists and employers as well as make it easier for minors to obtain contraception without parental involvement.
HHS
2023-11-01
On November 1, senior Biden administration officials hosted a meeting of more than 30 legislative leaders from 16 states to discuss efforts to advance legislation to further promote “reproductive rights,” including abortion, in the upcoming 2024 legislative session. This is one of more than a dozen such meetings the White House has held since the Dobbs decision, wherein state legislators have gathered to strategize on how to counter state laws that protect the unborn.
President
2023-11-09
On November 9, 2023, the DOJ filed a statement of interest in two consolidated lawsuits seeking to protect the right of women to travel out-of-state to obtain abortions.
DOJ
2023-11-14
On November 14, HHS, through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), announced its approval of Missouri’s extension of comprehensive healthcare coverage for postpartum women through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for a full 12 months (as opposed to 60 days, previously). This move will help new mothers who may not otherwise qualify to receive healthcare coverage for themselves and their children through Medicaid and CHIP for a full year after they give birth. Missouri is the 40th state to extend this coverage.
HHS
2023-12-04
On December 4, 2023, the Reproductive Rights Task Force (RRTF) within the DOJ provided a briefing to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta on its continuing efforts to protect abortion and undercut pro-life causes since Dobbs. The RRTF’s efforts include fighting against pro-life laws in court, furthering out-of-state abortion travel for women, and defending the FDA’s negligent decision to reduce safeguards for women taking chemical abortion drugs.
DOJ
2023-12-19
On December 19, 2023, the White House announced that Vice President Harris would be embarking on a nationwide “Reproductive Freedoms Tour” to advocate for abortion and against pro-life protections for unborn children. The announcement spoke of Harris’ intent to “highlight the harms” caused by pro-life laws, hold so-called “extremists” accountable for proposing national pro-life protections, call on Congress to codify Roe v. Wade, and outline steps that the Biden administration is taking to protect and promote abortion.
President
2023-12-22
On December 22, HHS published a notice inviting comment on a draft of the World Health Organization’s Pandemic Preparedness Agreement. This agreement would give a staggering amount of power to an unelected, unaccountable international organization and poses a serious threat to national sovereignty, free speech, and human dignity. Click here to read FRC’s comment.
HHS
2024-01-09
On January 9, HHS issued a new final rule that purports to protect conscience rights in the healthcare setting. Although this rule contains stronger language than the original proposed rule, it is not nearly as protective of conscience rights as a prior rule from the Trump administration. This, combined with the Biden administration’s continued advocacy for abortion and gender transition procedures, raises doubts as to whether conscience and religious objections would be honored in practice and indicates that HHS, under the Biden administration, cannot be trusted to protect the conscience rights of healthcare workers.
HHS
2024-01-17
On January 17, HHS Secretary Becerra embarked on a three-day, three-state Reproductive Health Care tour, during which he decried the Dobbs decision for restricting women’s ability to obtain abortions and supposedly limiting their access to contraception. Becerra falsely claimed that the Dobbs decision makes it harder to train new medical providers and may lessen the number of those who enter the field. He also told students that the Biden administration was working to protect so-called “emergency abortions” when the woman’s life is in danger. However, this is unnecessary because procedures to save a woman’s life are not abortions and are not prohibited under pro-life laws.
HHS
2024-01-22
On January 22, HHS updated the Medicare Part D formulary clinical review process for 2024 to include additional birth control types, such as intramuscular long-acting contraceptives, and to include IUDs for subsequent plan years. Notably, all forms of hormonal contraception, including IUDs, can act as abortifacients.
HHS
2024-01-22
On January 22, HHS Secretary Becerra sent a letter to health plans and insurers, reminding them of their obligations to cover contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act. Relatedly, HHS and the U.S. Departments of Labor and Treasury also issued new frequently asked questions on how plans and insurers can ensure compliance with this requirement to cover contraception without cost-sharing. This raises conscience concerns for pro-life business owners who provide health insurance to their employees, as many forms of birth control have the potential to act as abortifacients.
HHS, DOL, USDT
2024-01-30
On January 30, a federal jury convicted six pro-life activists of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act by attempting to impede access to an abortion business. The DOJ had previously unsealed the federal indictment against these activists in October 2022.
DOJ
Family and Religious Freedom
2021-01-20
On January 20, President Biden issued an executive order on "Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation." This order directed agencies to apply the holding of Bostock v. Clayton County to other areas of law beyond its intended scope of employment discrimination. The order requires federal agencies to interpret federal laws that prohibit sex discrimination (including Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972) as also prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
President
2021-01-20
On January 20, President Biden issued an executive order on "Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government." This order directs the executive branch to pursue comprehensive policies that elevate the LGBT agenda.
President
2021-01-25
On January 25, President Biden issued an executive order on "Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform." This order:
- Revoked President Trump's memorandum on "Military Service by Transgender Individuals" dated March 23, 2018, and disregarded the in-depth DOD study that was the foundation of this memorandum. The study details the harms of allowing those who identify as transgender to openly serve according to their gender identity.
- Stated that someone's gender identity should not bar them from military service.
- Cited the Obama administration-era DOD study that erroneously concluded: "permitting transgender individuals to serve openly in the military was consistent with military readiness and with strength through diversity."
- Established the policy that all transgender individuals who want to serve in the military and "can meet the appropriate standards" should be able to do so openly and free from discrimination.
- Directed the DOD and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement this policy.
President
2021-01-27
On January 27, President Biden issued a memorandum on "Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking." This memorandum directed that federal scientific integrity policies "support scientists and researchers of all genders, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds," even after asserting that federal science policy overall includes only the best peer-reviewed science, free from "improper political interference."
President
2021-02-02
On February 2, President Biden issued a proclamation on American Heart Month. In this statement, Biden gratuitously referenced "all genders." However, the proclamation acknowledges that "the symptoms of a heart attack can be different for men and women, an often-overlooked fact that can impact when people seek care."
President
2021-02-04
On February 4, President Biden issued a memorandum on "Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World." This memorandum "reaffirms and supplements" an Obama administration executive order that sought to ensure "United States diplomacy and foreign assistance promote[s] and protect[s] the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons everywhere." Through this policy, the United States will push LGBT ideology around the world. Among other things, this memorandum directs all relevant agencies to:
- "Ensure appropriate training is in place so that relevant Federal Government personnel and key partners can effectively identify and respond to the particular needs of LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers, including by providing to them adequate assistance and ensuring that the Federal Government takes all appropriate steps, such as potential increased use of Embassy Priority-1 referrals, to identify and expedite resettlement of highly vulnerable persons with urgent protection needs."
- "Consider appropriate responses, including using the full range of diplomatic and assistance tools and, as appropriate, financial sanctions, visa restrictions, and other actions" when "foreign governments move to restrict the rights of LGBTQI+ persons or fail to enforce legal protections in place, thereby contributing to a climate of intolerance."
- Rescind inconsistent policies and report on progress.
President
2021-02-04
On February 4, President Biden issued an executive order on "Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs to Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration." Section 4 (j) of the order allows for non-married couples to be treated as married for the purposes of the refugee system in certain circumstances.
President
2021-02-04
On February 4, President Biden issued a memorandum on "Revitalizing America's Foreign Policy and National Security Workforce, Institutions, and Partnerships." Among many other things, this memorandum declared that it is administration policy to "prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility as a national security imperative, in order to ensure critical perspectives and talents are represented in the national security workforce." It established an Interagency Working Group on the National Security Workforce to, in part, "strengthen diversity and inclusion by sex, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, and economic, regional, and immigrant backgrounds, including at senior levels." The memorandum also included a call for recommendations of legislative and executive actions to achieve these goals of promoting and integrating LGBT ideology around the world.
President
2021-02-11
On February 11, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a memorandum announcing that it will be using the redefinition of "discrimination on the basis of sex" from Bostock v. Clayton County in its administration and enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. This is likely to lead to HUD-funded shelters for battered women being mandated to allow biological men to be housed alongside women where they may share private spaces.
HUD
2021-02-14
On February 14, President Biden issued an executive order on "the Establishment of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships." This order revoked Executive Order 13831, which established a White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative. This Initiative had precipitated various agency actions to preserve religious liberty during the previous administration. Biden's executive order states that it is important to strengthen the ability of faith-based and other community-serving organizations to deliver services "while preserving our fundamental constitutional commitments guaranteeing the equal protection of the laws and the free exercise of religion and forbidding the establishment of religion."
- The accompanying fact sheet says: "The Partnerships Office's initial work will include collaborating with civil society to: address the COVID-19 pandemic and boost economic recovery; combat systemic racism; increase opportunity and mobility for historically disadvantaged communities; and strengthen pluralism. The office will also support agency partnerships that advance the United States Government's diplomatic, international development, and humanitarian work around the world." This shift replaces the priority of preserving religious liberty with a priority of ensuring that religious entities who want to work with the government do not operate according to their religious beliefs that are counter to LGBT ideology.
President
2021-02-19
On February 19, President Biden issued a statement in support of the introduction of the Equality Act in Congress. In the statement, he reaffirmed his commitment to the LGBT agenda and called for swift passage of this anti-life, anti-faith, anti-freedom bill.
President
2021-02-23
On February 23, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) issued a letter withdrawing a Trump administration Letter of Impending Enforcement Action against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference for violating Title IX by allowing biological males to play sports designated for females. The Biden administration also archived the Trump administration's helpful January 8 memo regarding the Supreme Court's Bostock decision and its effect on Title IX.
ED
2021-03-04
On March 4, President Biden issued a statement in support of the House's passage of the For the People Act (H.R. 1). Among other things, the For the People Act establishes a federal takeover of elections, removes barriers to voter fraud, forces disclosure of certain donor lists, and has a religious test for eligibility to be on a redistricting commission mandated by the bill.
President
2021-03-08
On March 8, President Biden issued an executive order on the "Establishment of the White House Gender Policy Council." This order states that it is the policy of the Biden administration "to establish and pursue a comprehensive approach to ensure that the Federal Government is working to advance equal rights and opportunities, regardless of gender or gender identity, in advancing domestic and foreign policy – including by promoting workplace diversity, fairness, and inclusion across the Federal workforce and military." The accompanying fact sheet states that the Gender Policy Counsel will "aggressively protect" certain groups, including the LGBT community. The removal of the scientific and biological parameters of sex will prevent this council from adequately protecting and addressing the needs of biological women.
President
2021-03-08
On March 8, President Biden issued an executive order on "Guaranteeing an Educational Environment Free from Discrimination on the Basis of Sex, Including Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity." This order states that "the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall review all existing regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, and any other similar agency actions (collectively, agency actions)" to ensure they line up with LGBT ideology.
President
2021-03-08
On March 8, President Biden issued a statement on the introduction of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA), voicing his support for VAWA's reauthorization. Unfortunately, the reauthorization includes gender identity language that undermines the intended purpose of VAWA (i.e., increasing access to victim services and improving the criminal justice response to sexual assault, rape, sexual harassment, and other such crimes) and thereby harms the very women it seeks to protect.
President
2021-03-12
On March 12, the DOD issued a memorandum responding to the presidential memorandum issued on February 4. The DOD memorandum conflated the protection of universal human rights with promoting LGBT ideology and laid out steps DOD would take to promote this ideology around the world in accordance with that presidential memorandum.
DOD
2021-03-17
On March 17, President Biden issued a statement applauding the passage of VAWA.
President
2021-03-18
On March 18, the White House issued a fact sheet on “U.S. Efforts to Combat Systemic Racism.” The fact sheet erroneously equates LGBT identification with race as a protected class and explains that the Biden administration’s priorities regarding promoting LGBT ideology, not just combating racism.
President
2021-03-26
On March 26, the DOJ issued a memorandum on the application of Bostock v. Clayton County to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. This memorandum expanded the scope of Bostock to say that its redefinition of discrimination on the basis of sex (to now include sexual orientation and gender identity) should apply to Title IX provisions regarding discrimination on the basis of sex. This paves the way for schools to be mandated to accept gender identity ideology.
DOJ
2021-03-30
On March 30, the DOD issued updated directives outlining the ability of transgender-identifying individuals and those with gender dysphoria to serve in the military. This policy prioritizes social engineering over military readiness, lethality, and unit cohesion.
DOD
2021-03-31
On March 31, President Biden issued a proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility. This proclamation completely dismissed the science regarding the differences between men and women and the importance of these differences in a multitude of areas, including health care. It also called for the passage of the Equality Act.
President
2021-04-06
On April 6, as part of implementing President Biden's March 8 executive order, the ED's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a comprehensive review of the Department's regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. In a letter to students, educators, and other stakeholders, OCR outlined plans to solicit the public's input on the regulations, ultimately leading to possible revisions through a notice of proposed rulemaking.
President, ED
2021-04-22
On April 22, HUD announced that it was withdrawing the previous administration's rule that had sought to ensure the privacy and safety of women in women's shelters.
HUD
2021-05-05
On May 5, President Biden issued a proclamation on National Day of Prayer without mentioning God one time. This was the first National Day of Prayer proclamation to not mention God.
President
2021-05-06
On May 6, President Biden announced the organization of the Domestic Policy Council at the White House. LGBTQ+ advocacy is listed among the top priorities for this council.
President
2021-05-10
On May 10, HHS announced that the OCR would interpret and enforce Section 1557 and Title IX's prohibitions on sex discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
HHS
2021-05-13
On May 13, President Biden nominated leftist radical Catherine Lhamon to be assistant secretary of the Office of Civil Rights at ED. Secretary Miguel Cardona praised her nomination.
President, ED
2021-05-17
On May 17, President Biden issued a statement recognizing "International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia," which celebrates the anniversary of WHO's declassifying homosexuality as a mental disorder. He touted the administration's work on the issue and, yet again, called on Congress to pass the Equality Act.
President
2021-05-17
On May 17, ED's OCR announced a virtual public hearing to gather information for the purpose of improving enforcement of Title IX. Specifically, the announcement states that "OCR looks forward to hearing views and insights […] on Title IX and schools' responsibilities to address […] discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in education programs and activities."
ED
2021-05-17
On May 17, the White House published a fact sheet of its effort to impose the LGBT agenda on other nations.
- "The Department of State, the Department of Labor, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are "leveraging diplomatic engagement and foreign assistance to promote practices and policies […] including efforts which lead to the decriminalization of consensual same-sex status."
- "The Department of State-managed Global Equality Fund (GEF), which is a public-private partnership of like-minded governments, businesses, and foundations that supports civil society programs to […] provides assistance to locally-owned efforts to advance law reform."
- "Since its launch in 2011, the Global Equality Fund has provided more than $83 million in funding through small grants, emergency and rapid response assistance, and support for more than 50 technical assistance projects in more than 100 countries worldwide."
- "USAID manages the Multi-Donor LGBTI Global Human Rights Initiative, which leverages financial and technical contributions from Sweden and Canada to support locally-led LGBTQI+ organizations."
DOS, DOL, *USAID
2021-06-16
On June 16, ED's OCR issued a Notice of Interpretation explaining that it will enforce Title IX's prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
ED
2021-06-21
On June 21, the White House hosted a round table with LGBT leaders to discuss efforts and strategies to pass the Equality Act. They also discussed the various state-level bills aimed at protecting women and children from efforts to enforce harmful LGBT ideology and how to combat them.
President
2021-06-23
On June 23, in observance of Title IX's 49th anniversary, ED's OCR issued a Dear Educator Letter and, in conjunction with the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, a new fact sheet with a focus on the redefinition of sex discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
ED, DOJ
2021-06-25
On June 25, President Biden announced his appointment of Jessica Stern to be the U.S. special envoy to advance the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons at the U.S. Department of State. The announcement called this position "critical to ensuring that U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote" LGBT ideology abroad. Stern was executive director of OutRight Action International, and "has supported the legal registration of LGBTIQ organizations globally, helped secure the mandate of the United Nations Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, expanded the UN General Assembly resolution to include gender identity, and co-founded the UN LGBTI Core Group."
President, DOS
2021-06-25
On June 25, President Biden issued a "fact sheet" and, again, called for the passage of the Equality Act, saying, "it will provide long overdue civil rights protections for millions of Americans." The document falsely claims that the Equality Act "would also strengthen civil rights protections for other protected groups, including […] people of faith by expanding where non-discrimination protections apply to public accommodations."
President
2021-06-25
On June 25, President Biden issued an executive order on "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce" that "establishes that it is the policy of {his} Administration to cultivate a workforce that draws from the full diversity of the Nation." It contains a specific section on LGBT-identifying individuals, calling on all agencies to affirm the self-professed identity of employees regardless of biological sex. It further calls for hormones and surgeries to be covered by insurance. Further, it calls for identification standards to include non-binary gender markers where gender markers are required in employee systems and profiles.
President
2021-06-30
On June 30, the United States joined global partners and announced commitments to the Generational Equality Forum to push pro-abortion and LGBT ideologies on other nations.
President
2021-06-30
On June 30, the Biden administration put out a fact sheet on all the actions it had taken to mandate gender identity ideology through the federal government, the country, and the world. The White House hosted a "Virtual Convening on Transgender Equality;" created a new White House-led Interagency Working Group on Safety, Inclusion, and Opportunity for Transgender Americans; noted that it is taking steps to allow for gender identity to be used on federal identification documents; and released a "tool-kit" with "best practices" in these regards.
President
2021-07-23
On July 23, the Biden administration held a roundtable with Black men who identify as transgender in the first of a series of listening sessions that will be convened by the “White House-led Interagency Working Group on Safety, Inclusion, and Opportunity for Transgender Individuals” in order for participants to share their policy recommendations for advancing gender identity ideology.
President
2021-08-02
On August 2, the White House issued a fact sheet regarding "Reopening Schools and Rebuilding With Equity" that touted ED's "comprehensive" plan to undermine Title IX and enshrine gender identity ideology in schools.
President
2021-08-17
On August 17, the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services put out a back-to-school video addressed to transgender identified students. The video was essentially a threat to schools that don't adopt gender identity ideology.
DOJ, ED, HHS
2021-09-15
On September 15, the U.S. State Department requested public comment on its proposed policy to integrate gender identity ideology into the passport application process by allowing applicants to select the gender marker on their passport without presenting medical documentation of gender transition. This policy change also includes updating forms to add a third option of "X" for applicants identifying as non-binary, intersex, and/or gender non-conforming. This could have significant national security implications should someone use this option to hide their true identity.
DOS
2021-09-20
On September 20, the White House released a statement on the 10th anniversary of the repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy which previously barred gay, lesbian, and bisexual service members from openly serving in the military. Biden said this repeal "helped move our nation closer to its foundational promise of equality, dignity, and opportunity for all" and expressed his thanks to LGBTQ+ military service members. The statement paid no heed to the concerns noted in the previous administration's report on open service by those who identify as transgender and how pushing a progressive social agenda in our military is detrimental to its lethality, readiness, and unit cohesion.
President
2021-09-30
On September 30, President Biden nominated Loren AliKhan to be a U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia. As an attorney, AliKhan has argued against Americans’ religious freedom five times. This includes arguing that the First Amendment does not allow religious organizations to choose their own ministers and designate which positions are “ministerial,” as well as defending the District of Columbia’s decision to prohibit in-person gatherings of more than 100 people for worship (including outdoor gatherings with masking and social distancing) while allowing thousands of people to gather for protests. Anyone who so consistently argues against the First Amendment should be deemed unfit to serve on the federal bench.
President
2021-10-11
On October 11, the White House released a statement by President Biden on National Coming Out Day that called for the passage of the Equality Act, touted the harmful executive actions that have elevated sexual orientation and gender identity, and condemned state legislation aimed at protecting children.
President
2021-10-12
On October 12, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) touted its approval of a request to provide gender transition procedures as part of Colorado’s Essential Health Benefit (EHB) benchmark. CMS noted this as a “landmark step,” erroneously claiming that it is good health care and ignoring the harms proven to be associated with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and other such gender transition procedures.
HHS
2021-10-19
On October 19, Rachel Levine, a male who identifies as female, was sworn in as a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps. The announcement heralded Levine as the first female to hold this title, thereby ensuring that this honor would not go to a woman.
HHS
2021-10-22
On October 22, the White House issued a fact sheet on the "National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality." This document states that the administration will defend abortion on demand policies and calls for the passage of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which, in its current form, is detrimental to the women it should be protecting.
President
2021-10-29
On October 29, in a statement noting October as Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, the White House called for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Yet, in its current form, the bill reduces resources for battered women and could lead to further trauma.
President
2021-11-08
On November 8, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a proposed rule to remove the religious liberty protections the previous administration had implemented to ensure access to grant funds.
DOL
2021-11-09
On November 9, in a Veteran’s Day proclamation, President Biden again stated his desire to inculcate the military with social experimentation and indicated a desire to have the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs cover hormones and surgery for those struggling with gender dysphoria.
President
2021-11-18
On November 18, HHS rescinded waivers that had been previously granted to faith-based adoption and foster care agencies so that they could continue operating without fear of government discrimination or violating their conscience.
HHS
2021-11-19
On November 19 and 20, HHS leaders issued statements, the president issued a statement, and the White House posted a list of numerous actions taken in the past year to commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each exploited the tragic loss of life to advance a narrative that is harmful to our society and even harmful to those in the LGBT community.
HHS, President
2021-12-20
On December 20, the DOD issued a new instruction entitled, "Handling Protest, Extremist, and Criminal Gang Activities Among Members of the Armed Forces." The instruction shows the Biden administration's intent to integrate social engineering into the military and claims that "extremist activity" includes advocating for "discrimination" based on sexual orientation and gender identity, which could simply translate to advocating for natural marriage and a scientific understanding of human sexuality.
DOD
2021-12-23
On December 23, President Biden nominated Nancy Abudu to be a U.S. circuit judge for the Eleventh Circuit. Abudu has worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a corrupt organization known for targeting its political opponents with its “hate group” label and dangerous rhetoric. The SPLC has been linked to domestic terrorism on more than one occasion, including an attempted mass shooting at Family Research Council in 2012. Abudu’s failure to distance herself from the SPLC’s radical positions and dangerous rhetoric should disqualify her among fair-minded observers from having the capacity to serve on the bench as an impartial jurist.
President
2022-01-05
On January 5, The Federalist obtained a leaked draft copy of a proposed executive order that would mandate federal prisons to place biological males with biological females.
President
2022-01-05
On January 5, HHS issued a proposed rule that would require insurance companies to cover experimental and potentially harmful hormones and surgeries for those who identify as transgender.
HHS
2022-01-11
On January 11, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by Parents Defending Education revealed that the National School Board Association and Education Secretary Cardona had collaborated with the DOJ to issue a memo in October 2021 targeting parents who engage in local school board meetings.
ED, DOJ
2022-01-15
On January 15, President Biden issued a statement on Religious Freedom Day that touted the passage of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which included the Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act. This bill contains vague language that would likely be used to implement the current federal criminal definition of "hate crimes" in a coercive manner, forcing individuals to adhere to beliefs and ideologies with which they disagree.
President
2022-01-31
On January 31, President Biden issued a proclamation on National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month that asserted his administration would be "enforcing Title IX's protections for students" in a manner inconsistent with the intent of Title IX by redefining "sex" to mean gender identity and sexual orientation, which leads to the loss of rights, privacy, and opportunity for girls.
President
2022-02-28
On February 28, President Biden issued a proclamation on Women's History Month flaunting his excess of executive orders that are harmful to women's rights, privacy, and opportunity. He also expounded upon the reauthorized Violence Against Women Act, which is drafted in contradiction to its purpose and perpetuates abuse while reducing resources for women.
President
2022-03-02
On March 2, President Biden issued a statement on what he called "Texas' attacks on transgender youth." He spoke against Governor Greg Abbott's labeling of gender experimentation on minors as child abuse and doubled down on his anti-science push to advocate for this experimentation and make it more readily available despite its documented harms.
President
2022-03-08
On March 8, the White House issued a fact sheet entitled, "Biden-Harris Administration Celebrates First Anniversary of the Establishment of the White House Gender Policy Council." This document includes information on the administration's steps to advance the goals and ideology of the transgender movement.
President
2022-03-08
On March 8, Education Secretary Cardona issued a statement on Florida's Parental Rights in Education Bill. He called the bill hateful and attempted to intimidate Florida schools that abide by this legislation and protect parental rights by threatening their funding.
ED
2022-03-16
On March 16, the White House issued a fact sheet entitled, "Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)," which erroneously claims the reauthorization that President Biden signed into law strengthens the underlying bill and helps victims. In fact, it is drafted in such a way as to perpetuate abuse and reduce resources for victims.
President
2022-03-17
On March 17, Secretary of Education Cardona and HHS assistant secretary for health Admiral Levine held a "Virtual Listening, Learning Roundtable with LGBTQI+ Students and Families from Florida." In this discussion, members of the Biden administration reemphasized their devotion to ideology above parental rights and what is best for children.
ED, HHS
2022-03-25
On March 25, HHS issued a press release entitled, "HRSA Promotes Access to Gender Affirming Care and Treatment in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program." This prong of the program alleges that "culturally-affirming healthcare," a pseudonym for leaving gender dysphoria untreated, is a "key component to improving the lives of transgender people with HIV."
HHS
2022-03-28
On March 28, ED issued a press release in which Education Secretary Cardona addressed the passage of the Parental Rights in Education Act in Florida. Cardona falsely accused Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, mischaracterized the bill as "targeting students," promised to monitor the implementation of the law against federal civil rights law, and encouraged the filing of complaints.
ED
2022-03-30
On March 30, President Biden issued a proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility. In this proclamation, Biden noted "being made in the image of God" and seen "for who you are," as if identifying as transgender is innate and immutable. He advocated for the dissemination of stories glorifying transgender ideology through news media, books, television, movies, and magazines, as well as for the elevation of social engineering and leftist ideology in our military. Biden erroneously labeled his opposition as corrosive while grossly mischaracterizing their positions as he decried attempts to protect children from experimentation and preserve equality, safety, and opportunity for female athletes. He again encouraged Congress to pass the Equality Act, an extremely divisive and dangerous piece of legislation.
President
2022-03-31
On March 31, President Biden issued a proclamation on National Child Abuse Prevention Month in which he stated that anything other than advocating "gender affirmation" is a form of child abuse and should be treated as such. He stated that "gender affirmation" is best and subsequently released new guidance to state child welfare agencies to operate according to harmful gender identity ideology.
President
2022-03-31
On March 31, the White House issued a fact sheet entitled, "Biden-Harris Administration Advances Equality and Visibility for Transgender Americans." The fact sheet includes the administration's attempts to undermine the scientific understanding of sex by warning states of the possible repercussions of passing legislation that seeks to protect children from gender experimentation, as well as many other destructive actions that various agencies are taking to promote gender ideology throughout our federal government.
President
2022-03-31
On March 31, Attorney General Merrick Garland released a statement on Transgender Day of Visibility that misconstrued civil rights and reaffirmed the Biden administration's dedication to "combatting hate crimes." The "hate crimes" statute has the potential to hamper free speech and is ripe for targeting perpetrators of crimes based on their motives, which the government is singularly ill-equipped to discern. Furthermore, "hate crimes" statutes pick winners and losers because they are inevitably incomplete and so elevate some categories of motives above others.
DOJ
2022-03-31
On March 31, the DOJ issued a press release entitled, "Justice Department Reinforces Federal Nondiscrimination Obligations in Letter to State Officials Regarding Transgender Youth." The letter threatens states that seek to protect children from experimentation.
DOJ
2022-03-31
On March 31, Education Secretary Cardona and Florida Congressman Darren Soto (D) met with some Floridian students and families on "Transgender Day of Visibility" to oppose the Parental Rights in Education Act.
ED
2022-04-01
In April, the Biden administration planned to propose a regulation that seeks to advance President Biden's agenda that has been laid out in two executive orders entitled, "Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation" and "Guaranteeing an Educational Environment Free from Discrimination on the Basis of Sex, Including Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity." This comes after Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for the Office for Civil Rights, said in December of 2021 that a notice of proposed rulemaking related to Title IX would be released in April 2022. The contents of the proposed regulation are unclear at this time, with Education Secretary Cardona stating that the purpose of this new rule is to provide "equal access, protect students against discrimination and protect students against sexual violence," but it is reasonable to predict that this regulation will be detrimental to women's sports. The proposal of this regulation has been delayed but may likely take place in May or June 2022.
President, ED
2022-04-01
In April, the Biden administration planned to propose a regulation that broadens a Trump-era regulation that implemented section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act prohibiting discrimination based only on race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability. This proposed regulation will include sexual orientation and gender identity using Bostock v. Clayton County, GA as its basis and will target states that place restrictions on drugs and procedures for the purpose of "gender transitions" in children—procedures that can be physically unhealthy, damaging, and often irreversible in many ways.
President
2022-04-22
On April 22, President Biden issued a proclamation on Days of Remembrance of Victims of The Holocaust, which lauded the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which has nothing to do with preventing anti-Semitism. Rather, it contains vague language that could be used to implement the current federal criminal definition of "hate crimes" in a coercive manner. It creates a bureaucracy that perpetuates identity politics when the primary focus of our judicial system should be prosecuting criminals and obtaining justice for victims.
President
2022-04-27
On April 27, the White House issued a readout entitled, "Readout of White House Roundtable with Lesbian Leaders to Celebrate Lesbian Day of Visibility." This roundtable included Ambassador Chantel Wong and Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine—a biological male who identifies as a woman—to discuss how to further advance LGBT ideology.
President
2022-04-28
On April 28, the White House issued a fact sheet entitled, "U.S. Agencies Are Advancing the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Around the World." The fact sheet includes the withdrawal of the U.S. State Department from the "Geneva Consensus Declaration," which was signed by former President Trump, because it contains pro-family language. It also mentions that the State Department has committed up to $5 million to launch the Global LGBTQI+ Inclusive Democracy and Empowerment (GLIDE) Fund, which seeks to push LGBT ideology internationally.
President
2022-04-29
On April 29, President Biden issued a proclamation on National Foster Care Month. In it, he mentioned his 2023 budget proposal, which proposes to amend title IV-E in a way that elevates human sexuality ideology above the needs of foster children and families.
President
2022-04-29
On April 29, the DOJ issued a press release challenging an Alabama law that seeks to protect children from gender experimentation and announcing its lawsuit challenging the law. The lawsuit erroneously claims that this experimentation is medically necessary and asks the court to issue an immediate order to prevent the law from going into effect.
DOJ
2022-05-05
On May 5, the USDA issued a press release entitled, "USDA Promotes Program Access, Combats Discrimination Against LGBTQI+ Community." Using Bostock v. Clayton County as its basis, the USDA announced that it would broaden its interpretation of Title IX and the Food and Nutrition Act of 2007's prohibition on discrimination to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This action will require state and local agencies that receive funding from USDA's Food and Nutrition Service to investigate allegations based on gender identity or sexual orientation, as well as update their non-discrimination policies and signage to include this new and broadened definition of discrimination on the basis of sex.
USDA
2022-05-17
On May 17, President Biden issued a statement on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia in which he condemned legislation that upholds parental rights and protects children from experimentation. He claimed that these efforts were "rooted in ignorance and intolerance that we see around the world." He also doubled down on his efforts and intentions of pushing LGBT ideology around the globe.
President
2022-05-31
On May 31, President Biden issued a proclamation on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Pride Month. In his proclamation, Biden attacked state legislation that seeks to protect children from experimentation, and he once again urged Congress to pass the Equality Act. Further, he lauded himself for signing executive orders to advance the radical LGBT agenda.
President
2022-06-01
On June 1, HHS issued a press release marking the beginning of Pride Month. The "progress" Pride flag, which purports to be "more inclusive" by representing a myriad of self-proclaimed identities, was raised outside the HHS headquarters. HHS Secretary Becerra reasserted his commitment to expanding access to gender transition procedures for minors despite their demonstrable harms. A slew of Biden administration officials contributed to the press release, including HHS Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm, Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary of the Administration for Children and Families January Contreras, FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Micky Tripathi, and CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, among many others.
HHS
2022-06-01
On June 1, the U.S. State Department issued a press release commemorating Pride Month and reasserting a commitment to forcing the Biden administration's radical human sexuality ideology on other countries across the globe. Not surprisingly, in 2022, 132 U.S. embassies issued statements and proclamations marking Pride Month, and 99 U.S. embassies displayed Pride flags on their buildings.
DOS
2022-06-01
On June 1, the USDA issued a statement celebrating the Department's use of taxpayer dollars to sponsor "Pronouns in the Workplace" training sessions with Equality USDA. The Department lists in this statement a number of initiatives that it has been working towards, which include:
- "Creating a Gender Expansive guidance workgroup formed to develop a Departmental Regulation (DR) for transitioning employees, including for transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary individuals;
- "Producing guidance for the use of Gender Inclusive language in all agencies' internal and external communications;
- "Developing guidance and streamlining processes to eliminate barriers and expedite IT systems updates to reflect correct gender identity for transitioning employees;
- "Developing guidelines for collections and utilization of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) data in employment and USDA programs to ensure a diverse workforce; and
- "Holding LGBTQI+ External Stakeholder listening sessions with Deputy Secretary Bronaugh."
USDA
2022-06-15
On June 15, President Biden issued an executive order entitled, “Executive Order on Advancing Equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Individuals.” This all-encompassing order:
- Directs HHS and ED to advance a radical agenda regarding human sexuality:
- HHS is directed to protect access to medical experimentation that has demonstrable harms, especially to children.
- HHS is directed to target therapy for those struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion and to consider banning such therapy.
- The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is encouraged to consider deeming such therapy an “unfair or deceptive practice.”
- HHS is directed to establish an initiative to partner with state child welfare agencies that will surely be designed to hinder the ability of faith-based providers to assist those in need in their communities.
- ED is directed to take actions that will lead to the further indoctrination of children and push a radical gender ideology that is harmful to female students and more.
President
2022-06-17
On June 17, the U.S. State Department issued a press release with remarks by Secretary Antony Blinken at a Pride reception declaring that there is more work to do in advancing the LGBT agenda while boasting about advances already made. He also talked about elevating LGBT issues, such as the illegality of sodomy, in terms of human rights abuses.
DOS
2022-06-23
On June 23, President Biden issued a statement on the 50th Anniversary of Title IX in which he expressed his commitment to achieving full equality for LGBT Americans, essentially saying he will continue to advance transgender ideology, which erases and harms women.
President
2022-06-23
On June 23, the DOJ issued a press release with remarks by Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke delivered in regard to Pride Month. In her statements, Clarke compared the Stonewall uprising to the lunch counter sit-ins of the Civil Rights movement. She highlighted a current United States lawsuit against Alabama for passing legislation that protects children from experimentation.
DOJ
2022-06-23
On June 23, ED released proposed changes to Title IX regulations to include gender identity ideology in the statute. These proposed changes are damaging for women, children, parental rights, and religious liberty.
ED
2022-07-01
On July 1, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Education Secretary Cardona both issued statements opposing Florida's Parental Rights bill that protects parents' rights regarding the education of their children and protects children from exposure to age-inappropriate materials regarding sexuality in kindergarten through third grade. Jean-Pierre encouraged the filing of complaints with the Department's Office for Civil Rights.
President, ED
2022-07-25
On July 25, HHS announced a proposed rule regarding section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. If finalized, the proposed rule would force insurers to pay for gender transition procedures for minors and could be used to coerce doctors to perform surgeries and distribute puberty blockers to children.
HHS
2022-07-26
On July 26, the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) announced new grant funding to combat maternal mortality yet touted other OASH projects, including those focused on LGBT-identifying patients. These projects likely ignore the importance of biology to the practice of medicine and the harms of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery.
HHS
2022-09-09
On September 9, President Biden issued a proclamation concerning World Suicide Prevention Day. He noted that LGBT-identifying youth are disproportionately affected in suicide statistics. Yet, he also cited Executive Order 13988, which directs HHS, ED, and even the FTC to mandate a singular path of "affirmation" and experimentation, an approach that has demonstrable harms and has shown no clinically significant mental health benefit, including reducing suicide ideation.
President
2022-09-10
On September 10, Vice President Harris gave a speech at the Democratic National Committee summer meeting. She radically claimed that it is "fundamental to America" to protect abortion and push LGBT ideology. She doubled down on previous statements attacking states for protecting children from experimentation and protecting parental rights.
President
2022-09-15
On September 15, President Biden hosted the United We Stand Summit, which was supposed to "counter the corrosive effects of hate-fueled violence." However, speakers included Joni Madison of the Human Rights Campaign, Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen of the National Center for Transgender Equality, and Margaret Huang of the Sothern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC is known for its corruption and profiteering off of labeling its political enemies as "hate groups." It has also been linked to domestic terrorism in federal court because its hate map and rhetoric inspired a gunman to enter Family Research Council in 2012 with the intent of murdering as many people as he could.
President
2022-09-15
On September 15, when asked about the Respect for Marriage Act, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated in a press release that President Biden believes a right to same-sex marriage is "nonnegotiable" and that he is "steadfast" in his support for same-sex marriage.
President
2022-09-19
On September 19, Secretary of State Blinken spoke at the United Nation's LGBT Core Group Event. He applauded nations that have been advancing LGBT ideology, lauded the actions of the United States to advance LGBT ideology, and claimed that doing so was "central to the health of our democracies."
DOS
2022-09-20
On September 20, President Biden spoke at a reception for the Democratic National Committee. He falsely claimed that "it's about freedom" and "Roe was a balance" and falsely implied that Republicans would "go after" the LGBT community.
President
2022-09-21
On September 21, President Biden spoke before the United Nations General Assembly. His remarks further exposed his intention to push LGBT ideology around the world, even on nations that disagree with it. Biden claimed that the future will favor countries that promote LGBT ideology.
President
2022-09-30
On September 30, the White House issued a proclamation to commemorate National Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. The proclamation touted the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) despite the 2022 reauthorization's allowance of biological males into women's shelters and private spaces, resulting in reduced resources for women and causing further trauma to women who have been abused by biological males.
President
2022-10-05
On October 5, ED announced new Equity Assistance Center (EAC) awards to "provide technical assistance to public schools and other agencies focused on addressing equity in their community for students and the educators who support them related to […] gender identity […]." Clearly, this grant money will be used to continue pushing gender identity ideology on public school children with little or no parental knowledge or consent.
ED
2022-10-11
On October 11, President Biden issued a proclamation for International Day of the Girl that touted his administration's dogged pursuit of advancing the LGBT agenda. He also touted the passage of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
President
2022-10-26
On October 26, State Department Spokesperson Ned Price issued a press statement concerning Intersex Awareness Day. He cited the "historic precedent" of the new option for "X" for gender on U.S. passport applications and conflated the genetic and physiological disorder of sex chromosomes, which is identifiable at birth, with someone's self-perceived identity that is wholly separate from the person's biological make-up.
DOS
2022-11-07
On November 7, President Biden issued a proclamation for Veteran's Day in which he promoted the ability of transgender-identified individuals to serve in the military despite military experts noting the significant harm this policy would cause to military readiness, lethality, and unit cohesion.
President
2022-11-18
On November 18, President Biden issued a proclamation on National Child's Day. He touted his executive order from earlier in 2022, supported experimentation of children, denigrated legislation that seeks to prevent experimentation on children and protect parental rights, and supported closing avenues of support for children struggling with same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria.
President
2022-11-20
On November 20, President Biden issued a statement concerning Transgender Day of Remembrance. He reiterated his call for the passage of the Equality Act and denigrated legislation that seeks to protect children from experimentation.
President
2022-11-29
On November 29, President Biden released a statement after the Senate passed the so-called Respect for Marriage Act. He proclaimed that marrying the person you love is a "fundamental truth" and right of all Americans, with no regard for the Constitution and the fundamental enumerated rights of every American. Biden further claimed that the legislation would safeguard the rights and protections of children, despite the fact that this bill lends approval to intentional motherlessness and fatherlessness.
President
2022-12-08
On December 8, President Biden issued a statement on the House passage of the so-called Respect for Marriage Act, again erroneously claiming that the bill is protective of children. Biden also claimed that the law would act as a safeguard to Americans’ most fundamental rights, despite its potential to threaten the fundamental right of religious freedom.
President
2022-12-10
On December 10, President Biden issued a proclamation on “Human Rights Day and Human Rights Week.” He touted his administration’s push of LGBT ideology and falsely equated this with promoting human rights.
President
2022-12-13
On December 13, President Biden held a signing ceremony for the Respect for Marriage Act. In his remarks, he described marriage as simply a matter of asking, "Who do you love? And will you be loyal to the person you love?" He did not acknowledge the nature of marriage, which the Act legally redefines. Biden equated interracial marriage with same-sex marriage (ironically ignoring Justice Clarence Thomas' interracial marriage while using the words of Thomas' concurrence in Dobbs to falsely claim interracial marriages were in danger) and equated those who believe in natural marriage and biological sex to racists and antisemites. Biden also claimed that signing this bill—which will further ostracize, vilify, and target people of faith—is "decent," "dignified," and "true to the best of the soul of America." He touted the Equality Act and continued his vilification of actions that states have taken to protect children from experimentation.
President
2022-12-14
On December 14, President Biden issued a proclamation on Bill of Rights Day in which he denounced and mischaracterized bills that protect parental rights and protect children from harmful medical experimentation. Biden also lauded various bills that would harm women, children, families, religious liberty, and society at large, such as the Equality Act. He also touted the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act.
President
2023-01-05
On January 5, CMS and HHS released a proposed rule that mandates nondiscrimination requirements regarding sexual orientation and gender identity that are inconsistent with biological reality.
HHS
2023-01-09
On January 9, HHS issued an award of nearly $245 million to support youth mental health. About $60 million of those funds was given to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which is known for providing “gender-affirming care” and treatment.
HHS
2023-01-12
On January 12, nine federal agencies (the Departments of Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Justice, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development, along with the United States Agency for International Development) proposed rescinding rules from 2020 that leveled the playing field for faith-based organizations wishing to participate in grant programs or become contractors.
NA
2023-01-24
On January 24, the White House released a fact sheet on a “First-Ever Federal Evidence Agenda on LGBTQI+ Equity.” This agenda includes “Securing $10 million for 2023 in the bipartisan government funding bill to research adding questions about LGBTQI+ Americans to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.” This agenda also allows for passports with “X” gender markers for the first time and removes requirements for updating gender information with the Social Security Administration, which could create a very serious national security problem.
President
2023-01-27
On January 27, the FDA issued a proposal that would allow men who have sex with men to donate blood. According to the CDC in 2015, “Gay, Bisexual, and other men who have sex with men [MSM] accounted for 70% of all diagnoses of HIV infections.” The FDA’s prohibition on blood donation from MSM was a precaution that helped ensure recipients of blood transfusions were protected from disease.
HHS
2023-01-31
On January 31, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a proposed rule to amend the federal government personnel vetting investigative and adjudicative processes for determining suitability and fitness. This proposed rule contravenes the First Amendment and is not related to a candidate’s ability and qualifications to perform the job at hand; rather, the proposed changes are more focused on things such as determining employees’ personal beliefs (click here to read FRC’s comment).
*OPM
2023-02-09
On February 9, HUD issued a proposed rule on “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing.” This rule defines sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity and would allow biological men in HUD-funded shelters for battered women.
HUD
2023-02-16
On February 16, President Biden issued an executive order that touted his administration’s acute focus on mandating and otherwise advancing LGBT ideology. He once again praised the so-called Respect for Marriage Act.
President
2023-02-22
On February 22, ED issued a proposed rule that would rescind provisions that were enacted to ensure that religious student organizations are treated in the same manner as any other campus organization (click here to read FRC’s comment).
ED
2023-02-28
On February 28, President Biden issued a proclamation for Women’s History Month. In this proclamation, he decried the Dobbs decision and claimed that abortion is a constitutional right. He also voiced his support for gender ideology and touted the co-called Respect for Marriage Act.
President
2023-03-09
On March 9, HHS released a proposed budget for FY 2024 that recommends $836 million be directed to behavioral health programs designed to push gender ideology on children.
HHS
2023-03-30
On March 30, President Biden issued a proclamation for Transgender Day of Visibility, saying that those who identify as transgender are being “their true selves.” He also decried state legislation that seeks to protect children from harmful gender transition procedures and protect parents’ rights.
President
2023-03-31
On March 31, Education Secretary Cardona issued a statement on Transgender Day of Visibility in which he decried the state laws that prevent indoctrination of gender ideology at school and ensure parents are informed.
ED
2023-03-31
On March 31, President Biden issued a proclamation on National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. The president touted the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), despite how language in its 2022 reauthorization undermined VAWA’s original purpose.
President
2023-03-31
On March 31, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services updated its policy guidance to accept a “self-identified” gender marker on documents for individuals requesting immigration benefits. The gender marker on their supporting documentation does not need to match.
DHS
2023-03-31
On March 31, OPM released updated guidance that dictates pronoun usage and warns that, in certain circumstances, not abiding by this dictate could constitute the creation of an unlawful hostile work environment. This update also requires agencies to review and, as necessary, update relevant policies so that all employees are allowed to dress and present themselves in a manner consistent with their gender identity.
*OPM
2023-03-31
On March 31, HHS released a report that falsely claims to provide a comprehensive overview of the scientific research and consensus regarding gender dysphoria, children, and proper care. It falsely claims that “gender-affirming care” is what’s best and blames mental health concerns faced by these children on a lack of affirmation. What is being referred to as gender-affirming care is in direct opposition to our knowledge regarding development and our understanding of good research and treatment. There is also clear evidence that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures can cause permanent physiological damage and psychological harm.
HHS
2023-03-31
On March 31, HHS raised the transgender pride flag outside its headquarters and released statements from Secretary Becerra and Assistant Secretary Levine. Secretary Becerra doubled down on supporting gender transition procedures for individuals struggling with gender dysphoria, and Assistant Secretary Levine laid out immediate actions of HHS to mandate and support harmful gender ideology. These announced actions include releasing guidance to child welfare agencies that promotes “gender-affirming care” and mandating that the medical community offer harmful gender transition procedures, regardless of their medical judgment or conscience.
HHS
2023-04-06
On April 6, ED announced a proposed rule change to Title IX that would prohibit schools receiving federal funds from keeping biological males out of women’s sports.
ED
2023-04-21
On April 21, President Biden issued a proclamation on National Crime Victims’ Week in which he touted several laws which elevate the LGBT agenda over the needs of victims. One example is the 2022 reauthorization of VAWA, which elevates biological males’ desires over the needs of battered women. He also touted the COVID-19 Hate Crimes and Khalid Jabara-Heather Heyer NO HATE Acts, which create very slippery slopes for infringing on fundamental freedoms protected by the First Amendment and open the door for punishing thoughts.
President
2023-04-25
On April 25, HHS Secretary Becerra issued a statement decrying Missouri’s emergency regulation to protect children from gender experimentation and the state laws being passed to do the same.
HHS
2023-04-26
On April 26, the DOJ filed a complaint challenging a Tennessee law designed to protect children from gender experimentation. It is scientifically known that these procedures are harmful, yet DOJ suggests it is a violation of the Equal Protection clause to keep kids safe and let them grow naturally.
DOJ
2023-04-26
On April 26, the 70th anniversary of the “Lavender Scare,” President Biden issued a proclamation touting his commitment to ensuring that transgender-identifying individuals can serve in the military. Further, he touted his mandates of the LGBT agenda within the federal government that disregard federal employees’ religious liberty and conscience and, in some cases, deny freedom of speech.
President
2023-04-28
On April 28, President Biden issued a proclamation on National Foster Care Month in which he praised his executive order that endangers the ability of faith-based adoption and foster-care agencies to continue operating without fear of government discrimination or violating their conscience.
President
2023-05-03
On May 3, Biden administration officials hosted a listening session with various Muslim community leaders to discuss how to counter animosity and discrimination against individuals simply for being perceived as Muslim.
President
2023-05-10
On May 10, Biden administration officials met with the House and Senate Bipartisan Task Forces for Combating Antisemitism to discuss a strategy to counter antisemitism in the United States.
President
2023-05-12
On May 12, President Biden issued a proclamation for National Women’s Health Week. He continued to express his support for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which undermines VAWA’s original intent by reducing resources for battered women and increasing the likelihood of further trauma for women in homeless shelters due to being placed in the same quarters as biological men.
President
2023-05-15
On May 15, President Biden announced his intent to nominate Dr. Monica Bertagnolli to be the director of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Bertagnolli has demonstrated that she puts LGBT ideology ahead of medicine. Her time as director of the National Cancer Institute and work at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, two organizations advocating unscientific LGBT and gender ideology, indicate that she would not only fail to put a stop to the taxpayer-funded experimentation on minors that has already been occurring but would also defend and advance it. She confirmed these concerns during her confirmation hearing on October 18, when she refused to denounce taxpayer-funded child experimentation through gender transition procedures.
President
2023-05-17
On May 17, President Biden issued a statement on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia. He touted his executive order from 2022 to further advance the LGBT agenda domestically. Specifically, this executive order directed HHS to protect access to harmful experimentation on children struggling with their sex, outlaw the talk therapy that would help these children, and push an LGBT agenda in the foster care system.
President
2023-05-31
On May 31, President Biden issued a proclamation about Pride Month. He vilified the numerous states that have taken action to preserve parental rights and protect children from indoctrination and experimentation. Also, he once again praised the Respect for Marriage Act and called for the passage of the Equality Act.
President
2023-06-01
On June 1, HHS Secretary Becerra and 18 other HHS principals issued statements highlighting the Department’s focus on promoting the LGBT agenda and harmful experimentation on children through gender transition procedures. Secretary Becerra also described any beliefs in opposition to this agenda as “hateful and harmful beliefs of a narrow-minded few."
HHS
2023-06-01
On June 1, Secretary of State Blinken released a statement commemorating Pride Month and reasserting a commitment to promote and further LGBT ideology across the globe.
DOS
2023-06-01
On June 1, Defense Secretary Austin released a statement on Pride Month. He expressed his support for and commitment to further promoting LGBT ideology within the DOD and called it an “honor” to implement President Biden’s directive allowing people with gender dysphoria to serve in the military and be affirmed in their gender identity.
DOD
2023-06-01
On June 1, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield spoke at an “LGBTI Pride Month Reception.” She praised the Biden administration’s efforts to promote LGBT ideology since day one of his presidency, stating that it “is a top priority for the United States.”
DOS
2023-06-01
On June 1, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce Gina Raimondo released a blog post celebrating Pride Month and the raising of a "progress" Pride flag (which purports to be more “inclusive” by representing a myriad of self-proclaimed identities) outside the Department’s building to show support for advancing LGBT ideology throughout the country.
Commerce
2023-06-05
On June 5, the State Department issued a press release announcing that U.S. Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Jessica Stern would be traveling to Canada to receive an award for her commitment to advocating for LGBT ideology and to have a discussion with Canadian leaders about how to continue pushing this ideology in Canada.
DOS
2023-06-07
On June 7, DOD released an article that falsely claimed the Department’s embrace of LGBT ideology has strengthened the military. In reality, this shift in focus to social experimentation and engineering has weakened military readiness, lethality, and unit cohesion.
DOD
2023-06-08
On June 8, HUD released a statement announcing the launch of a new LGBT Youth Homelessness Initiative that will include regular training in LGBT ideology and ensure compliance with LGBT mandates. This could also lead to an increase in teenage boys and girls being placed in the same shelters, sharing the same private spaces.
HUD
2023-06-08
On June 8, U.S. Attorney General Garland issued a statement celebrating Pride Month along with a fact sheet noting what the DOJ has done to advance LGBT ideology, including the Department’s involvement in litigation to try to force a school to allow biological males in the girls bathroom, strike down laws protecting children from gender transition procedures, and requiring employee-sponsored health insurance in Georgia to cover gender transition procedures for employees.
DOJ
2023-06-08
On June 8, the White House released a fact sheet detailing several new actions related to LGBT-identified people. The fact sheet criticized attempts to protect children and parental rights and detailed new action items for various departments. It announced plans to introduce proposed rulemaking to ensure that child welfare agencies affirm LGBT-identified youth in their chosen identities and proposed regulations to provide LGBT-identified youth and their families with special privileges related to human services programs.
President
2023-06-10
On June 10, President Biden and the First Lady held a Pride celebration on the south lawn of the White House. In his remarks, President Biden praised the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act and called on Congress to pass the Equality Act.
President
2023-06-10
On June 10, President Biden released a statement celebrating and praising the 60th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, which, in its current form, undermines its stated goal of ensuring fair wages for women by denying biological realities, redefining “sex,” and creating additional ways to force employers to pay for abortion coverage in healthcare plans.
President
2023-06-14
On June 14, U.S. Small Business Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman participated in an LGBT roundtable joined by the co-chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus and the president of the LGBT Chamber of Commerce. Administrator Guzman discussed how the SBA could further advance LGBT ideology and denigrated the over 600 state bills designed to protect parental rights and child privacy and safety.
*SBA
2023-06-22
On June 22, Alison Randall, the director of the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) within the Department of Justice, released a blog post stating that she “wholeheartedly embrace[s] the President’s vision” of promoting the LGBT agenda. She praised the recent reauthorization of VAWA’s prioritization of this agenda and the desires of biological males over the needs of battered women.
DOJ
2023-06-24
On June 24, HHS released a statement on the Biden administration’s continued commitment to forcibly accelerating the advancement of LGBT ideology abroad, claiming that the Geneva Consensus Declaration is an anti-LGBT and anti-woman declaration. In reality, the Declaration promotes women, children, and families’ health across the globe.
HHS
2023-06-26
On June 26, HHS hosted a “Pride Summit” highlighting the administration’s continued devotion to promoting LGBT ideology and supporting harmful experimentation on children through gender transition procedures.
HHS
2023-06-30
On June 30, the Economic Development Administration (EDA) within the Department of Commerce highlighted the work they have done to promote LGBT ideology, including providing $433 million to the three states with metropolitan areas home to the largest percentages of LGBT-identified people and a $1.3 million grant to create a “Pride Plaza” for “LGBTQI friendly” gatherings in Portland, Oregon.
Commerce
2023-06-30
On June 30, President Biden released a statement calling for the passage of the Equality Act and denigrating the unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. The Court’s decision upheld freedom of speech and freedom of expression by ensuring that a website designer would not be forced to create messages and communicate values that violate her conscience.
President
2023-07-05
On July 5, ED Secretary Cardona spoke at the National Education Association and vilified those seeking to remove sexually explicit books from school libraries, calling such people “demagogues” who have a “toxic disrespect” for teachers. He went on to express the need to “detoxify” such individuals.
ED
2023-07-11
On July 11, HHS announced a proposed rule implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to overextend Bostock v. Clayton County (which interpreted sex discrimination to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity) and bypass Congress in order to further promote LGBT ideology and undermine science, the foundation of health care.
HHS
2023-07-13
On July 13, HHS released a proposed rule to redefine sex discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity when related to health grants and Head Start education programs. This places ideological mandates on HHS grantees to elevate sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes. This move could pave the way for preschoolers to be indoctrinated with LGBT ideology and exposed to sexualized curricula. It could also mandate the performance of gender transition procedures for certain providers to be grant-eligible.
HHS
2023-07-16
On July 16, Vice President Harris spoke at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago for the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Convention. She honored Reverend Jessie Jackson for his devotion to pushing LGBT ideology in his church and community. She labeled those in opposition to the Coalition as “extremists [who] have an agenda—an agenda to divide us as a nation” and criticized the 303 Creative decision.
President
2023-07-19
On July 19, the State Department released a media note announcing that U.S. Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Jessica Stern would be traveling to Mexico to deliver the keynote address at the Victory Institute’s Conference of LGBTI Political Leaders of the Americas and the Caribbean. The purpose of the conference is bringing together like-minded participants to strategize how to effectively promote LGBT ideology across the Western Hemisphere.
DOS
2023-07-19
On July 19, the State Department released a fact sheet on the 53rd Session of the UN Human Rights Council. In the session, the United States led joint statements affirming the importance of a UN mandate focused solely on pushing LGBT ideology abroad.
DOS
2023-07-21
On July 21, Vice President Harris spoke on the Florida State Board of Education’s recent curricula updates and criticized efforts to protect children from sexually explicit materials and ensure parental involvement in education.
President
2023-09-14
On September 14, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at HHS published a proposed rule making changes to section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (which prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in programs that receive federal funding) to include gender dysphoria as a qualifying disability requiring accommodations and thus opening the door to mandating male access into sex-segregated spaces designated for females.
HHS
2023-09-28
On September 28, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) under HHS published a proposed rule to establish new requirements for the “safe and proper care” of children in the foster care system who identify as LGBT. This rule would mandate affirming children’s chosen identities, make it much harder for couples who do not ascribe to LGBT ideology to become foster parents, could require foster parents to facilitate the provision of gender transition procedures to a foster child in their care, and could even force faith-based providers out of the foster care system.
HHS
2023-10-20
On October 20, less than two weeks after the brutal and inhuman attack by Hamas against Israel, President Biden spoke at a campaign event and astonishingly compared those who don’t support LGBT ideology to antisemites and possibly even those who commit violence against Jews, saying, “I see no fundamental difference between the abuse of LGBTQ rights, the abuse of — because you’re Jewish […] they’re all the same.”
President
2023-10-26
On October 26, the spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, Matthew Miller, acknowledged Intersex Awareness Day by conflating the biological and genetic foundation of intersex conditions (a subset of conditions known as Disorders of Sexual Development) with the psychological foundation of LGBT identification. He ironically described surgical interventions for intersex conditions as being “harmful,” “medically unnecessary,” and having “lifelong negative physical and emotional consequences,” despite the Biden administration’s strong support for radical physiological interventions for children struggling with gender dysphoria.
DOS
2023-10-31
On October 31, President Biden made a proclamation on National Adoption Month in which he touted his administration’s push for LGBT ideology in the foster care system. This ideology perpetuates harm to children and limits their resources by ostracizing faith-based providers and parents by labeling them as “unsafe.”
President
2023-11-06
On November 6, the DOJ filed a petition urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case to overturn a Tennessee law designed to protect children from experimentation through gender transition procedures. It is known that these procedures carry great risks to children’s mental and physical health, yet the DOJ erroneously suggests it is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause to require that individuals be at least 18 years of age to undergo these life-changing and, often, irreversible procedures.
DOJ
2023-11-20
On November 20, President Biden issued a statement recognizing “Transgender Day of Remembrance,” in which he claimed that men can be women, touted the steps his administration has taken to advance LGBT ideology (including injecting it into the U.S. military), and doubled down on continuing to fight for the advancement of LGBT ideology despite its pervasive harms.
President
2023-12-11
On December 11, HHS Secretary Becerra hosted a meeting with LGBT activists in which he highlighted nearly 10 regulatory and other actions HHS has taken to advance the to the detriment of needy children, families, and the First Amendment. He also committed to continue building on these actions and further push the LGBT agenda.
HHS
2023-12-12
On December 12, Jessica Stern, Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Persons for the Department of State, co-authored an opinion piece in Newsweek regarding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948. In the piece, she inaccurately argued that the UDHR mandates the creation of preferential LGBT policies, conflating such policies with universally recognized and protected human rights.
DOS
2024-01-08
On January 8, the DOJ filed a statement of interest in a district court lawsuit that argues that gender dysphoria is considered a “disability” warranting accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) even though the ADA expressly excludes gender identity disorder as deserving of such accommodations. The lawsuit also appears to equate denying gender transition procedures with “cruel and unusual punishment.” If these arguments prevail, it could force corrections facilities to pay for gender transition procedures for inmates.
DOJ
2024-01-25
On January 25, the Office of Civil Rights at HHS issued guidance purporting to clarify the religious non-discrimination obligations of hospital and long-term care facilities. However, the guidance would redefine “sex” to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes, running counter to the intent of sex-based protections in civil rights law and potentially forcing providers to supply certain drugs and procedures in violation of their conscience or medical judgment.
HHS
International Religious Freedom
2021-03-22
On March 22, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned two current Chinese government officials in connection with serious human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China.
USDT
2021-04-14
On April 14, President Biden announced his intention to withdraw from Afghanistan in time for the 20th anniversary of September 11, ahead of the previously determined withdrawal date in 2022. The poor handling of the withdrawal enabled the Taliban to take over the country and senselessly endangered the lives of Christians and other minorities who could now face death at the hands of the Taliban.
President
2021-07-01
In July, President Biden neglected to host a Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, an annual gathering of foreign diplomats and world leaders to strategize a way forward to promote religious freedom around the world. This was started under the Trump administration, which held two gatherings.
President
2021-07-30
On July 30, President Biden nominated Rashad Hussain as ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.
President
2021-08-31
On August 31, President Biden finished overseeing a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that enabled the quick rise of the Taliban and endangered religious minorities, including Christian converts. Meanwhile, religious minorities were not included among the groups who received Priority 2 refugee status.
President
2021-11-15
On November 15, President Biden removed Nigeria from the list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) on religious freedom, despite increased violence against Christians in rural Nigerian communities throughout the year. The move gives Nigerian leaders who failed to protect religious freedom a free pass.
President
2021-12-23
On December 23, President Biden signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law, effectively banning goods made with the forced labor of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, from entering the United States.
President
2022-03-30
On March 30, Secretary Blinken repudiated the findings of the Trump administration's Commission on Unalienable Rights, which sought to focus America's attention on the human rights enumerated in America's founding documents and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
DOS
2022-07-15
On July 15, President Biden visited Saudi Arabia and met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman but failed to specifically raise religious freedom conditions in Saudi Arabia, which are particularly harmful to Christians.
President
2022-12-02
On December 2, Secretary Blinken announced the annual list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) for religious freedom. The list omitted Nigeria and India, two of the world's worst violators of religious freedom, without explanation.
DOS
2023-05-15
On May 15, the State Department released its 2022 Report on International Religious Freedom. The annual report details the current state of religious freedom in every country around the globe, including government violations of religious freedom and potential policy solutions.
DOS
2023-07-09
On July 9, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Rashad Hussain, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, and Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice Desirée Cormier Smith visited Bosnia and Herzegovina. While there, they honored those who lost their lives in the Srebrenica genocide of 1995 (which killed over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys) and met with various members of society to discuss methods for promoting religious tolerance and peace moving forward.
DOS
2023-10-27
On October 27, President Biden released a statement on the 25th anniversary of the International Religious Freedom Act, which he acclaimed as “a landmark bipartisan law that cemented America’s commitment to promoting religious freedom around the world.”
President
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