In an unexpected move Friday, the Trump administration issued a series of amendments to the UNICEF executive board that would have effectively rooted out transgender ideology and so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from the United Nations’ children’s agency.
Though the amendments failed to pass, they demonstrated that even at the U.N., the Trump administration intends to fight on all fronts. They also represented a sea change; only a few weeks ago when Joe Biden was still president of the United States, U.S. diplomats took the opposite position to the one they now take on behalf of the Trump administration.
The U.S. representative told the board, “These country program documents contain terms and concepts that promote immoral discrimination and advance harmful gender ideology in defiance of biological reality, both of which conflict with U.S….
