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USAID - American agency has been funding trans propaganda projects around the globe

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Herewegoagain29 · 05/02/2025 11:32

USA ID - the US agency for industrial developement has been suspended by the Trump administration and now that there is scrutiny over what it has been spending the money on. It has a 30 billion dollar budget and I'm sure it may do some good sometimes with the money but it seems like it was ideologically captured by trans ideology under the influence of the US large corperations and pharmaceutical companies.

Some of it's recent funding -
$1.5 million grant to Serbian 'Groupa Izadji' 'Group comeout' to promote LGBTQ workplace practices
£30 million to research HIV transmission among transgender individuals inSouth Africa
Transgender 'healthcare initiatives' in Vietnam and India
$25,000 for and Opera in Colombia to promote transgender representation in the arts
$32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.

Looking closer to home, it turns out Stonewall recieves funding from them -"National LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall also said the funding pause would affect its work in eastern Europe and the Caucasus'

BBC Media action also receives funding.
'The BBC's international charity BBC Media Action, which is funded by external grants and voluntary contributions, receives funding from USAID. According to a 2024 report, USAID donated $3.23m (£2.6m), making it the charity's second-largest donor that financial year.
It funds a range of projects in 30 countries and 50 languages across the world,
The charity, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, says its work is 'building stronger democracies', making a 'safer, more habitable planet' and creating 'more inclusive societies' - especially for the disabled and LGBTQI+ people.'

We know how much pro-trans propaganda the BBC pumps out here but it is depressing to think that it is being beamed into 30 other countries with a clear agenda to promote trans ideology.
However laudable the goals of 'spreading Democracy' are, it is a very Imperialist view and I do not want to fund the empowerment of 'transwoman' in say India to start marching into women's bathrooms there or taking over their sports.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14359179/Donald-Trump-Elon-Musks-USAID-closure-hit-BBC-charity.html

https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/trump-s-foreign-aid-pause-expected-to-impact-funding-for-uk-charities.html

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VrbzaMeiVOg

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lcakethereforeIam · 05/02/2025 13:31

I hope it'll be restructured to get rid of waste, graft, luxury beliefs and vanity projects. Target the money to be more effective. In the interim without USAid money to bail them out perhaps the Governments of the countries affected can look at their own waste, graft, luxury beliefs and vanity projects and target their money more effectively.

But I agree, there will be people, mostly women and children, whose lives may be devastated by this. I hope it's turned round quickly.

LifeExperience · 05/02/2025 13:15

USAID isn't going away. It's been stopped temporarily while forensic accountants figure out where all the money went. When it is stood up again it will be under the oversight of the Secretary of State where it belongs.

Chersfrozenface · 05/02/2025 13:08

So, Trump could have ordered it to stop those particular programmes.

That would indeed have been better.

We will have to see what are the "mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs" where directly employed staff will be kept on. The announcement about that will be at 20.00 GMT tomorrow.

PerkingFaintly · 05/02/2025 13:01

So, Trump could have ordered it to stop those particular programmes.

That's not what's happened.

The only thing that's an actual "consequence" here – rather than a part of the longstanding MAGA plan – is people rushing to cheer the closure of the whole organisation and its programmes which keep women alive.

And I agree that is very sad.

Deljay · 05/02/2025 12:55

Many many children will die because of this. Many women will die.

This is nothing to do with womens rights. You have lost the plot.

Chersfrozenface · 05/02/2025 12:52

SleepDeprivedElf · 05/02/2025 12:26

Shuttering USAID means taking food from starving children. That’s not hyperbole, programs help the world’s poorest people. We should be wary of doing Trump’s work for him with threads like this.

If the department had stuck to just actual aid of that kind instead of ideological propaganda, that would have been much better.

Sadly, tendentious idiocy often has sad consequences.

SleepDeprivedElf · 05/02/2025 12:26

Shuttering USAID means taking food from starving children. That’s not hyperbole, programs help the world’s poorest people. We should be wary of doing Trump’s work for him with threads like this.

PerkingFaintly · 05/02/2025 12:11

Oh sorry, I picked up the wrong link.
Should be:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-government.html?smid=url-share

PerkingFaintly · 05/02/2025 12:09

By the way, the Trump administration did tell us in advance that they planned to use PR to demonise institutions and civil servants before shutting down services.

So expect to see a lot of this.

Very informative article here:

Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-government.html?smid=url-share

Russell T. Vought, who served in Mr. Trump’s first administration and is his choice again to lead the Office of Management and Budget, has spoken openly about the Trump team’s plans for dismantling civil service.
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Mr. Vought said in a 2023 speech. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.”

Mr. Musk, who pushed Mr. Vought for the budget office role, for which he is awaiting Senate confirmation, has echoed that rhetoric, portraying career civil servants and the agencies they work for as enemies.
[...]
Mr. Musk used the same tactic during his 2022 takeover of Twitter, in which he depicted the company’s previous management as malicious and many of its workers as inept and oppositional to his goals. In firing Twitter executives “for cause” and withholding their exit packages, Mr. Musk accused some of them of corruption and attacked them personally in public posts.

(Share token can be found on this thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5258416-trumpmusk-folie-a-deux-trump-thread-137?page=17 )

“Put them in trauma”: Inside a key MAGA leader’s plans for a new Trump agenda

In private speeches, Russell Vought laid out plans to use armed forces to quell any domestic “riots.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/russell-vought-maga-2024-put-them-in-trauma-propublica/

PerkingFaintly · 05/02/2025 11:59

No this is not why the Trump administration has gone for shutting down USAID completely.

This the PR the Trump administration is using to get us to accept it shutting down USAID completely – and not just accept it, cheer it on.

The administration could have just closed all trans programmes, or all DEI programmes – as it has in, say, the US military, without disbanding the US military (funny that).

Meanwhile, USAID has been doing things like supporting women in Afghanistan and feeding refugees in Gaza. That will all stop.

Chersfrozenface · 05/02/2025 11:38

So that's why the Trump administration had gone for USAID.

Taking aim at gender identity ideology and propaganda.

One thing it is getting right.

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