Biden’s LGBT agenda uses invented language to force denial of reality on America.

Recent Executive Order and upcoming “Equality Act” part of new wave of bizarre “rights.”

Undefined radical terms being put into law!

By Amy Contrada
January 28, 2021

At the 2018 annual banquet of the national homosexual organization Human Rights Campaign, Joe Biden promised them that he would be very aggressive in implementing their demands on America.

[Republished from American Thinker with some additions and changes.]

On the afternoon of January 20, Biden issued an Executive Order demanding “equal treatment under the law, no matter [one’s] gender identity or sexual orientation.” This is just the first salvo in the next wave pushing “LGBT rights.”  The order will soon be backed by federal law, via the pending LGBT “Equality Act.”

While many are now warning the order will destroy girls’ and women’s sports, the order’s impact is much broader.

The enforcers will be handed free rein to transform society in unimaginable ways,given the undefined terms in the order and pending law: gender identity, sexual orientation, LGBT.  Why has there been no pushback on embedding these sexual-radical concepts in our legal system?

Establishment conservatives have shied away from addressing this issue and denigrate anyone who dares to confront it.  They don’t want to be called “anti-gay” or “uncompassionate” towards the “gender confused.”  (In 2018, MassResistance was banned from CPAC for our outspoken opposition to the transgender movement. See more here and here.)

Yet now, conservative commentators complain about boys taking over girls’ sports and locker rooms.  Too little, too late.

Biden’s LGBT Executive Order

Biden’s Executive Order (EO) targets “discrimination” based on “gender identity and sexual orientation.”  Anywhere existing statutes or regulations prohibit “sex discrimination,” the EO instructs all federal agencies to review and revise regulations as necessary to include “gender identity and sexual orientation.”

Justice Neil Gorsuch’s absurd ruling in Bostock , which radically re-defined Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as official Civil Rights protections, is cited as one basis for this EO.  The woke EO even references the radicals’ idea about “overlapping areas of discrimination,” called “intersectionality,” that deserve special notice.

As we often see from the Left, the EO’s introductory paragraph is emotionally manipulative, mentioning respect, dignity, love, children, one’s true self, and people just wanting “a roof over their head”:

But nowhere does the EO define the new terms at issue.

LGBT “Equality Act”

As of this writing, the so-called Equality Act has not yet been filed in the new 117th Congress.  But you can see last session’s Equality Act bill here.

Even during the campaign, the LGBT movement was bragging about "Joe's plan" to integrate their agenda into the federal government and US law. It starts with the re-definition of the word "equality." Note that LGBT doesn't go far enough; Biden now says LGBTQ+.

The Equality Act’s stated goal is “to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes.”  (What are the “other purposes”?)  The bill employs the phrase “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (referred to as ‘LGBTQ’).”  That’s as close to a definition it gets.

Anywhere discrimination on the basis of sex appears in the law, the new terms gender identity, and sexual orientation will be added.  That includes laws on public accommodations, employment, housing, credit, education, federally funded programs, jury service, and child welfare programs.

One foreboding clause states: 

So, destroying religious freedom on these issues is one of the “other purposes” of the Equality Act.

No Definitions

What exactly will be protected under the terms “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” in Biden’s EO and the Equality Act? No actual definitions are given.  So we must look elsewhere for hints.

“Gender Identity”

The whole idea of “gender” is recent – and irrational. It’s basically an evolving theoretical construct disseminated by sexual radical academics, political activists, and allies in the medical establishment.  But what we’ve seen play out so far under cover of “transgender rights” reveals it as pure lunacy.

Massachusetts law includes a silly circular definition of “gender identity.”  The relevant section states:

In a ridiculous attempt to explain it, The Massachusetts Attorney General writes, “In essence, gender identity is a person’s internal sense of their own gender.”  So “gender” is just what an individual thinks about himself, unconnected to the reality around him.  But we all must “respect” his delusion.  We are also presented with the absurd phrase, “sex assigned at birth,” which negates the scientific reality of the distinction between biological male and female.

The far-left Human Rights Campaign has an equally absurd definition:

Already, we’ve seen this nonsense allow for glaring abuses in language, schools, sports, public accommodations, healthcare, insurance, and businesses. It has led to children being confused and indoctrinated; some are having their bodies destroyed and sterilized by puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical mutilations.

Lacking any rational legal definition, who can imagine what further demands will be justified under the “gender identity” umbrella? 

Biden is very serious about his intentions to push the LGBT denial of reality. As one of his first acts he nominated Dr. "Rachel" (formerly known as Richard) Levine - a man who pretends to be a woman - as Assistant Health Secretary.

“Sexual Orientation”

What exactly is “sexual orientation”?  Massachusetts law includes a disturbing hint of what could come our way, among other things, if Biden’s EO and the Equality Act law are enforced: legalized pedophilia.

Where Massachusetts law mentions “sexual orientation” (as protected from discrimination), the term is immediately followed by the phrase, “which shall not include persons whose sexual orientation involves minor children as the sex object.”  Clearly, pedophilia can be considered a sexual orientation.

But the EO and Equality Act do not limit “sexual orientation” in this way.  Nor do they exclude other reprehensible and dangerous practices which could be considered sexual orientations such as BDSM, polygamy, prostitution, bestiality, pornography addiction.

The radical homosexual advocacy group Human Rights Campaign defines sexual orientation as, “An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people” – also without any limitation on who those “other people” might be.  That syrupy reference to emotion and romance helps cover over the dangerous promiscuity common to many in the “LGBT community.”  And HRC repeats the false claim that sexual orientation is “inherent or immutable.”

“LGBTQ+”

The Equality Act uses the acronym LGBTQ [no +] without defining it. We’ve been told that LGBT stands for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender.” The meaning of the long-standing words “lesbian” and “gay” are obvious – but what exactly are “bisexual,” “transgender,” and “queer” (Q)?

Here is how the Human Rights Campaign defines the Q for “queer”:  

In a recent interview with Philadelphia Gay News (Oct. 2020), Biden went even further and added + (a plus sign) to the LGBTQ acronym. He promised the moon to the “LGBTQ+” community and said he would guarantee transgender housing. He said, “It’s about dignity, plain and simple.” But what does that + (plus sign) mean?

Orwellian “Newspeak”

The ruling elite wants free rein to keep expanding their reach without limit of legal definitions.  That’s what the + means!  

What we’re experiencing is the perversion of language for use as a political weapon. Orwell explained this in “The Principles of Newspeak”:

New words and phrases invented by the Left:

sexual orientation - gay - gay marriage - bisexual – gender - gender identity - transgender - [pronouns] zie, zir, they, them - queer - LGBTQ+ - questioning - pansexual - nonbinary - genderqueer - sex assigned at birth - who they are - hate speech - hate crime - love is love - social justice

Undesirable words and phrases the Left is attempting to eliminate:

God - faith - Bible - truth - free speech - freedom of the press - Constitution -Founding Fathers - abortion - morality - perversion - modesty - sodomy - mother - father - son - daughter - parental rights

Words and phrases that are being stripped of unorthodox (unapproved) meanings:

sex – man – woman – boy – girl – marriage – family – human rights – justice – discrimination – hate – equality

It’s been going on for decades now.  But we must demand that our political leaders call out the illegitimacy of embedding undefined radical terms in our laws. And we must continue to make that clear, too!

As we pointed out above, we can't simply wait until a new transgender edict begins to destroy girls' and women's sports. The deeper roots of that agenda need to be confronted now. Are conservatives up for that? More to the point: Do we have a choice?

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Amy Contrada is with MassResistance. Early in the transgender rights onslaught (2008), she published a groundbreaking analysis of the Massachusetts transgender rights bill.