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

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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

Not only coming WAY late to the gender ideology pushback party, but needing Trump to blow everything up to do it. Good old USA!

Watching Trump in action is like seeing someone burning his house down and that if his neighbours because he doesn't like the bathroom tiles.

And the whole - if you don't keep on funding through this organization, you are killing people, is a bit much.

No, the things that are killing people are killing people. You can't do policy in that kind of reactionary way, it's a kind of emotional blackmail.

Otherwise, every time we decide to make one funding choice over another, or change what we do with our money, collectively, as a nation, or even as individuals, we are taking on the weight of "killing people".

Does anyone trust an organization, or the people in it, who are using aid money to fund LGBTQI+ opera?

There is a sense ein which Trump is likely appealing to his base here - this kind of corruption is the exact reason that many Americans are suspicious about high level bureaucracy and aid funneled mainly through the government (either their own or on the end of those receiving the money.)

If anyone bears responsibility for it being questioned now, it's the people using to fund their pet causes.

Seriously OP your title to this thread is just silly.

Name me one overseas aid agency, whether government or charity funding that isn't promoting the LGBTQI+ agenda.

As of course the UN.

To make out that USAID had had an outlying extreme position undermines any points you are trying to make.

I don't like that so much of the large agencies have been completely transed.

But that is the point the all have.

The issue here is that some unelected male maverick has let lose 4 of his juvenile male techies to interfere with a complex computer system holding personal information because he personally, ie Musk who is not accountable to anybody, doesn't like the purpose of USAID.

I think many of us can think of any number of large organisation who could do with trimming their sales but to jeopardise the health of women and children because Trump wants to give Musk a favourite target as a deranged individual, is appalling.

This is using the excuse of trimming costs to destroy it.

"Musk called USAID "evil", a "criminal organisation" and a "radical-left political psy op" - short for "psychological operation", a term commonly used online to allege a conspiracy or cover-up. In a live stream on X early Monday, he told followers: "You've got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It's beyond repair. ... We're shutting it down."

This is the problem of electing someone as a President who has no idea what democratic politics is and thinks he is still some domineering CEO of a private company. Not forgetting that in fact most of Trumps financial projects has not suceeded.

@TempestTost sorry it feels a "but much" but when you take medicine away from the sick they become the dying. This isn't a game.

Awks! Sorry it's a bit much!

You have gone wrong in your life if you think this is feminism.

Funding priorities change all the time.

I know this because I work in a publicly funded service organization, and they not uncommonly change for me, and I can't find the programs I did before. Sometimes it's useless and stupid. Other times it's because it's become clear that a new approach will overall be better, but that will still leave some people using the old service with nothing.

Huge amounts of money are being wasted by this organization, if they can reverse that, there will be much more for worthwhile programs.

I have worked on USAID and State Department funded programs for many years. These programs save lives, including the lives of LGBTQIA persons, children, people with disabilities, women, men, migrant workers… the list is endless. Your blinding hatred for trans people is leading you to be incredibly misinformed about USAID and its work.

A lot of my friends have now lost their jobs - at USAID but also at NGOs providing life saving medical care (TB, malaria, HIV, cancer…), supporting women leave abusive marriages, helping people escape trafficking, providing scholarships to kids who would otherwise be forcibly conscripted into fighting illegal wars, infrastructure projects, security services, fighting corruption, climate change, clean water, and yes, supporting the LGTQIA community who face extreme violence in many countries around the world.

You may not like all the programs that aid money supports - that’s ok, you likely haven’t dedicated your entire career to humanitarian assistance or development, you likely haven’t lead impact evaluations to measure the change these programs bring to people’s live, you likely aren’t subject matter experts informing the design of interventions based on decades of evidence, you likely get your information from news articles that cannot possibly communicate the complexity that is foreign assistance - but know that you are doing the bidding of women-hating fascists who would trample over you if they thought it would increase their power or wealth.

Is foreign assistance in need of reform? Absolutely. Should we, the richest nations who have profited from colonialism and slavery, look beyond the end of our noses to partner with those we have exploited to break cycles of poverty that make the world less safer? Absolutely.

I pity people like those on this thread who spend their free time as keyboard warriors against trans people. Trans people have existed forever and your hatred won’t change that.

Charlotte Gill in the UK is doing the same sort of investigations into the WASTE of money that the UK funds. https://www.charlottecgill.co.uk/

Should we, the richest nations who have profited from colonialism and slavery, look beyond the end of our noses to partner with those we have exploited to break cycles of poverty that make the world less safer? Absolutely

Good lord. White savior alert.

It is ridiculous to think that a relatively small amount spent on the t part of lgb etc stuff is any sort of justification for shutting down foreign aid.
You think some foreign aid “may have done some good”?? Really???
I am not sure how anybody left or right wing can think anything trump is doing is in any way positive for the US or the world.
It amazes me that some women argue that “at least he knows what a woman is”.
Yes of course he knows what a woman is. Those are the ones he grabs by the pussy. He is a convicted sexual predator. He defines women by their appearance and ridicules those he doesn’t find shaggable enough. He “jokes” about his own daughters breasts and says he would date her if he could. He looks at pretty, blonde ten year old little girls and says he will be dating them in ten years time.
And let’s not forget that he enabled the over turning of abortion rights.
How can intelligent women be so stupid as to think this sexist orange megalomaniac twat is offering anything positive to the female population?

How many foreign kids being mutilated and sterilised would it take for you to withdraw the funding from those programmes?

And if the US aid has been so good over the years, why is the world in a worse position that prior to US aid? It seems the more they pump into projects the worse the planet gets. Maybe it is time to take stock?

Yep. This is where radical feminists and GCs diverge.

Its federal shutdown in action, the US funding of government federal departments /organisations is odd. The budget sign off process is right up to the beginning of their financial year.

If its not agreed amd crosses over all federal employees get put on unpaid leave. Remember the state level governmemt provide "local' services like police, army that can be deployed within the USA and fund the social welfare programs etc.
The process of which state and which political rep's area gets money is an in-party fight.

The UK system is done well in advance and a roll over provision voted on even before the new budget is announced.

This was always going to happen be a thing because voters also voted for "small government".

No charity paymemts outside the US is ok when no healthcare killing US women and US children on US soil is ok was always a thing too.

Your assumption that I am white tells me all I need to know about your knowledge of foreign assistance. I suggest you research localization, people-centered justice, and decolonisation of aid - all efforts that were being funded by USAID and State, among others.

Aid isn’t about being a saviour (white or otherwise) but about the equitable distribution of power and resources. This is now being dismantled by literally the richest man on the planet.

You stated you had benefited from colonialism and slavery. That is where the 'assumption' came from. If you have already benefited from colonialism and slavery then shouldn't you be paying it back without the financial compensation that comes with it?

I suggest you research localization, people-centered justice, and decolonisation of aid

Yes let’s decolonize aid. I support this by wanting to shut down USAID. Amazing we’re on the same page 👏

If you think that if there had been no trans projects Trump would have left this alone then you are staggeringly naive. He doesn’t give a fuck about women or trans ideology or anything else, he cares about money and power and that is it.

I think you are missing the point.

Trump wouldn't have been elected if the Democrats had been more mindful of many things, including where it puts funding. So he wouldn't have been able to shut this all down.

Trump wasn’t elected on an anti trans mandate as much as you would like to believe that is the case. It was all about his bullshit on the economy and immigration - that’s what won him the election.

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.

Well that was quite clearly true. There was masses of evidence of that at the time.

I didn't mention trans and yes, the economy and immigration are all part of where the USA puts its money and ensures fairness to its citizens.

That is what won him the election.

Aid isn’t about being a saviour (white or otherwise) but about the equitable distribution of power and resources.

😂😂😂😂😂

Should we, the richest nations who have profited from colonialism and slavery,

USAID IS colonialism.

An absolutely tiny drop in the ocean of its funding projects and you know it. You’re a propagandist yourself, and a sucker for the alt-right’s co-option of anti-trans views for their own frankly evil purposes.

The ‘pause’ on USAID’s funding is leading to people dying of starvation, preventable disease, and childbirth. But I guess that’s all worth it for you as long as it also doesn’t give small amounts of money to LGBT+ orgs (note, most of those cater to wider communities than just the T you focus on there, but you’re happy to shutter those).

It’s also led to a catastrophic defunding of independent media in Africa, Latin America and parts of Europe, giving Russia and China massive openings to push their agendas.

You know nothing.

The idea that US intervention overseas is this benign presence that focuses on saves lives of women and girls is just not reality. Sure, a few might benefit from programs but only if they also sign up to or are subject to political interference as well. And you just need to look to Iran and Afghanistan to see where American interference has lead to in terms of lives women and girls.

It’s also led to a catastrophic defunding of independent media in Africa, Latin America and parts of Europe

’independent media’