Sex Changes for Diplomats? State Department Pushes Gender Transition Care for Employees, Children

The State Department says it will consider providing gender dysphoria and gender transition care for diplomats and their children stationed overseas, stoking concerns in Congress that taxpayers will be responsible for funding sex change surgeries.

The State Department will “assess resources for gender dysphoria and gender transition care at posts for employees and their dependents” in an effort to “increase support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) employees and family members,” according to a recently released Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) Strategic Plan. It is unclear at what phase the State Department’s assessment stands. The State Department would not answer Washington Free Beacon requests for further information about the type of care and potential surgeries it would be considering.

The plan is part of the Biden administration’s government-wide effort to foster inclusivity, and is already courting controversy among Republicans in Congress who say U.S. taxpayers should not be responsible for funding controversial surgeries and other types of gender dysphoria care. They say the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion movement—which is primarily fueled by liberals pushing a woke cultural agenda—is jeopardizing American credibility abroad.

“The State Department might not just be paying for their employee’s kids to receive these damaging surgeries, they’re penalizing foreign service officers who disagree and pressuring countries to perform these procedures on children,” Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), who helms the Republican Study Committee (RSC), Congress’s largest conservative caucus, told the Free Beacon. “Americans are pro-family, pro-country and pro-God. I hope foreigners understand that Joe Biden’s State Department doesn’t represent our values.”

Rep. Dan Bishop (R., N.C.) also expressed concerns about the State Department’s mission. “The facts are simple,” he said. “Biden’s policies exploit and harm children to promote his political agenda. These experimental and irreversible treatments on children shouldn’t be tolerated, let alone promoted.”

Gina Abercrombie-Winstanly, the State Department’s first chief diversity and inclusion officer, says in the report that the foreign service “can be a leader in demonstrating how DEIA can be advanced across the federal government.” She also said that all State Department employees “must encourage the kind of structures and