A quick history of transgender ideology The Yogyakarta Principles formalized transgenderism in 2007. http://yogyakartaprinciples.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/principles_en.pdf Signatories * Sonia Onufer Correa - co-author - co-chair, Sexual Policy Watch. founder of SOS-Corpo- Instituto Feminista para a Democracia (Brazil). * Vitit Muntarbhorn - co-author. Appointed first UN Independent Expert on violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity by the Human Rights Council. Former Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography. * Philip Alston - co-chair New York University School of Law's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. * Maxim Anmeghichean - senior program officer with the Open Society Foundations Human Rights Initiative * Mauro Cabral - co-director Global Action for Trans Equality, member Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice * Edwin Cameron - judge of Supreme Court of South Africa * Yakin Erturk - UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women (SRVAW) 2003-2009, former member of the Council of Europe, former board member United Nations Research Institute For Social Development, used to have a page at the Woodrow Wilson Center * Elizabeth Evatt - the first Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia, member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. * Paul Hunt - Rapporteur of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1999-2002), New Zealand's chief human rights commissioner, supporter of Jeremy Corbyn * Asma Jahangir - member of International Crisis Group, UN Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of Religion or Belief, Chair of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, * Maina Kiai - United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association from 1 May 2011 until 30 April 2017. * Miloon Kothari - United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on adequate housing (2000-2008) * Judith Mesquita - Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Human Rights Centre Clinic, in the School of Law and Human Rights Centre. Assistant to Paul Hunt. * Alice M. Miller - Associate Professorof Law at Yale Law School and the Co-Director of the Global Health Justice Partnership. * Sanji Mmasenono Monageng - judge on International Criminal Court,Commissioner in the African Union Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights * Lawrence Mute - member of Open Society Foundations, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa * Manfred Nowak - United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2004 to 2010 * Ana Elena Obando Mendoza - Women's Human Rights Net * Michael O'Flaherty - Former Vice Chair UN Human Rights Committee * Sunil Pant - founder of Blue Diamond Society of Nepal * Dimitrina Petrova - Program Director of SOS Children's Villages, fellow of National Endowment for Democracies * Rudi Muhammed Rizki - ad hoc judge of the Human Rights Committee, * Mary Robinson - former Irish Prime Minister, supporter of Hamas * Nevena Vuckovic Sahovic - member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (2003-2009) * Martin Scheinin - United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism (2005-2011), UN Human Rights Committee (1997-2004) * Wan Yanhai - UN Human Rights Committee (1997-2004) * Stephen Whittle - Press for Change, Rainbow Signers /Free the Five (pro-Cuba) * Roman Wieruszewski - Director of Poznan Human Right Centre former Member of the UN Human Rights Committee * Robert Wintemute - Professor of Human Rights Law at King's College London, writings align with PLO propaganda Promoted by Scott Long of Human Rights Watch in 2008. https://www.hrw.org/legacy/wr2k8/yogyakarta/ The activists pushing it out: * Hivos * Dreilinden * The Fund for Global Human Rights * Amnesty International, Kate Sheill * Global Rights, Stefano Fabeni * Human Rights Watch, Scott Long https://www.iglhrc.org/sites/default/files/Activists_Guide_Yogyakarta_Principles.pdf * ARC International, Kim Vance (Canada) / John Fisher (Geneva) * CAL (Coalition of African Lesbians), Fikile Vilakazi (South Africa) * COC Nederland, Björn van Roozendaal (Netherlands) * Cynthia Rothschild (United States), Center for Women's Global Leadership * GATE - Global Action for Trans* Equality, Justus Eisfeld (United States) * Human Rights Institute of South Africa , Corlett Letlojane (South Africa) * IGLHRC - International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, Jessica Stern (Unites States) * International Commission of Jurists, Allison Jernow (Geneva) * ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Association), Linda Baumann (Namibia) / Renato Sabbadini * International Service for Human Rights, Bjorn Pettersson (Geneva) * LGBT Centre, Otgonbaatar Tsedendemberel (Mongolia) * LGBT Platform, Chrystabelle Beaton (Suriname) * Rainbow Rights Project (R-Rights), Germaine Leonin (Philippines) * UHAI - the East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative, Wanja Muguongo (Kenya) http://arc-international.net/global-advocacy/human-rights-council/hrc19/press-release/ Adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council in June 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20161015204514/https://www.outrightinternational.org /content/historic-decision-united-nations US government establishes Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan in August 2011. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13583 Gender protections adopted by the US Office of Personnel Management in November 2011. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/diversity-and-inclusion/reports/governmentwidedistrategicplan.pdf Occupy Wall Street September-November 2011 was when the organized left switched from opposing Wall Street to social justice and identity politics. The power behind this change was traced to the big Wall Street financiers. Transgenderism adopted by OPM in 2013. Pushed on all US employees, schools, and government contractors. https://web.archive.org/web/20130303050635/https://opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/diversity-and-inclusion/reference-materials/gender-identity-guidance/ Around 2015 NYC gives a job to Elana Redfield of Sylvia Rivera Law Project. http://archive.is/4zmkS The US law on transgenderism calls it a disorder. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/705 --------- Where did transgenderism come from? The government. In every institution that has been infected with transgender ideology, it was imposed from the top down. The executives at the CEO level declared that everyone in the company would be forced to lie about obvious matters of biological fact and would pretend to like it. There was no explanation for this policy, no allowance for questioning, and anyone who did question the decision was removed. Now we see this same nonsense in our schools. Universities, K-12, and the teacher training programs all insist that everyone follow this newly made-up dogma. They insist that Title IX demands it. This is, like transgenderism itself, a lie. [Title IX](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/1681) prohibits federal programs from prohibiting access on the basis of sex. It does not prohibit recognition of the fact that sexes exist. February 2010: [OPM creates the Inter-Agency Work Group on Diversity and Inclusion.](https://ed.gov/about/inits/list/asian-americans-initiative/opm.pdf) August 18, 2011: Obama issues [Executive Order 13583](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13583) to "Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce" by creating a Government-wide Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan. November 17, 2011: The Office of Personnel Management's Office of Diversity and Inclusion releases its [Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan.](https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/diversity-and-inclusion/reports/governmentwidedistrategicplan.pdf) The report calls for: > avoiding discrimination for or against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation or any other prohibited basis. At the time, the department was led by [Veronica Villalobos](http://latinastyle.com/magazine/veronica-villalobos-bringing-diversity-into-government-2/) who was also chair of the Inter-Agency Work Group on Diversity. 2013: The U.S. Office of Personnel Management includes a lengthy passage on transgenderism in its ["Diversity & Inclusion Reference Materials"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130303050635/https://opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/diversity-and-inclusion/reference-materials/gender-identity-guidance/) provided by the [World Professional Organization of Transgender Health](https://www.thefullwiki.org/World_Professional_Association_for_Transgender_Health) which was formerly the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association. The passage illegally requires all federal employees to adhere to the WPATH organization in violation of the First Amendment's freedom of association, and forbids any co-worker of a person with gender dysphoria from discouraging their mistaken beliefs, an illegal restraint on speech. November 24, 2015: The Minnesota Department of Commerce issues [a letter](http://mn.gov/commerce-stat/pdfs/bulletin-insurance-2015-5.pdf) claiming that "Section 1557(a) under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex stereotyping..." As with the federal interpretation of Title IX, this is wrong. Section 1557 of the [Affordable Care Act](https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ148/pdf/PLAW-111publ148.pdf) became [42 U.S. Code § 18116](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/18116) which states: > Except as otherwise provided for in this title [1] (or an amendment made by this title),[1] an individual shall not, on the ground prohibited under title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ([42 U.S.C. 2000d](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000d) et seq.), title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ([20 U.S.C. 1681](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/1681) et seq.), the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 ([42 U.S.C. 6101](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/6101) et seq.), or [section 794 of title 29](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/794), be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under, any health program or activity, any part of which is receiving Federal financial assistance, including credits, subsidies, or contracts of insurance, or under any program or activity that is administered by an Executive Agency or any entity established under this title [1] (or amendments). [29 U.S. Code § 794](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/794) > No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States, as defined in section 705(20) of this title, shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance (...) [29 U.S. Code § 705]](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/705)- Definitions > (F) Rights provisions; exclusion of individuals on basis of certain disorders > For the purposes of sections 791, 793, and 794 of this title, the term “individual with a disability†does not include an individual on the basis of - > (i) transvestism, transsexualism, pedophilia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments, or other sexual behavior disorders; The law explicitly excludes transgenderism from being a protected disability. Bad legal advice has come down from the federal government unopposed, and everyone is forced to follow it. The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association was a group of doctors who studied the mental illness of gender dysphoria. [As of 1990, their standards called for caution.](http://www.genderpsychology.org/transsexual/hbsoc_1990.html) They recognized that "varied philosophies of appropriate care have been suggested by various professionals identified as experts on the topic of gender identity" and that "hormonal and surgical sex reassignment is extensive in its effects, is invasive to the integrity of the human body, has effects and consequences which are not, or are not readily, reversible, and may be requested by persons experiencing short-termed delusions or beliefs which may later be changed and reversed." Paul A. Walker, Ph.D. (Chairperson); Jack C. Berger, M.D.; Ricilard Green, M.D.; Donald R. Laub, M.D.; Charles L. Reynolds, Jr., M.D.; Leo Wollman, M.D. Stephen B. Levine (Chairperson), George Brown, Eli Coleman, Peggy Cohen-Kettenis, J. Joris Hage, Judy Van Maasdam, Maxine Petersen, Friedemann Pfaefflin, Leah C. Schaefer. Consultants: Dallas Denny MA, Domineco DiCeglie MD, Wolf Eicher MD, Jamison Green, Richard Green MD, Louis Gooren MD, Donald Laub MD, Anne Lawrence MD, Walter Meyer III MD, C. Christine Wheeler Ph.D Citation: Levine Stephen B. (Chairperson), Brown George , Coleman Eli, Cohen-Kettenis Peggy, J. Joris Hage, Van Maasdam Judy,Petersen Maxine, Pfafflin Friedemann, Schaefer Leah C (1998) THE STANDARDS OF CARE FOR GENDER IDENTITY DISORDERS. IJT II,2, http://www.symposion.com/ijt/ijtc0405.htm Veronica Villalobos worked in the EEOC's Office of Federal Operations from 2000-2008. In October 2010, she was appointed into the Senior Executive Service. http://www.feddiversity.org/veronica-villalobos/ http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/jobs/honorprogram.cfm She worked under Christine Griffin, who was appointed by George W. Bush in 2006 after running the Boston Disability Law Center from 1996 to 2005. http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Christine_Griffin She created and ran the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. This allowed her to write the hiring practices for all federal employers and all recipients of federal funds. One of the things her office mandated in 2011 was support for "gender identity." https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/diversity-and-inclusion/reports/governmentwidedistrategicplan.pdf Federal law, 29 U.S. Code §705(20)(F)(i), specifically allows discrimination based on the mental disorders of "transvestism, transsexualism, pedophilia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments, or other sexual behavior disorders." Yogyakarta Principles established 2007 https://www.objectnow.org/news/2018/7/27/yogyakarta-principles-international-threat-to-womens-rights