The US president has signed executive orders reversing protections for transgender rights and DEI programs.
The decades-long US promotion of the diversity and inclusion agenda should be investigated on an international level, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.
Zakharova made the remarks on Tuesday, a day after newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump ended protections for transgender rights and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the federal government.
Zakharova wrote on Telegram:
"Can you imagine how many people's lives have been ruined over the years of promoting this nonsense? What should hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people do now, who have been forced to accept the ideology of amputating healthy genitals and replacing them with artificial ones?"
Zakharova stated that officials in Washington have been forcing other countries:
"To show solidarity with what they called anti-scientific narratives, which in essence was the very propaganda that kills both the body and the soul. This 'inhumane doctrine' was linked with aid, sanctions, and political and financial pressure, as well as the "humiliation of human dignity and bullying."
On his first day back in office, Trump repealed 78 executive orders signed by his predecessor, Joe Biden, including at least a dozen measures supporting racial equity and combating discrimination against gay and transgender people.
Federal US agencies and departments have 60 days from the order's signing to end DEI-related practices....<<<Read More>>>....
