{"id":1414443,"date":"2022-04-01T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T12:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414443"},"modified":"2022-04-01T08:30:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T12:30:15","slug":"hhs-becomes-first-federal-agency-to-fly-transgender-pride-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hhs-becomes-first-federal-agency-to-fly-transgender-pride-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS Becomes First Federal Agency to Fly \u201cTransgender Pride Flag\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhhs-becomes-first-federal-agency-to-fly-transgender-pride-flag%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414443&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday became the first federal agency to fly the \u201ctrans pride flag,\u201d Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/hhs-trans-pride-flag-transgender-day-of-visibility-7681e73c-3aa3-44b4-897a-0112e60370d3.html\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra tweeted a photo of the \u201ctrans pride flag\u201d outside the Hubert Humphrey building on Thursday morning, accompanied by a statement of support for the transgender activist agenda.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOn this International #TransDayofVisibility, I say to our transgender communities: we see you, we stand with you, and we will be there for you. For the first time in history, the transgender flag is flying in front of a federal agency, @HHSGov\u2019s Hubert Humphrey building,\u201d Becerra wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Discrimination against transgender people has no place in this country. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HHSGov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HHSGov<\/a> will continue to do everything in our power to protect the health care of transgender people, including their access to gender-affirming care. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Az3rQq7EK\">https:\/\/t.co\/0Az3rQq7EK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Xavier Becerra (@SecBecerra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecBecerra\/status\/1509512013080371208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDiscrimination against transgender people has no place in this country. @HHSGov will continue to do everything in our power to protect the health care of transgender people, including their access to gender-affirming care,\u201d he continued in a second tweet, using the euphemism \u201cgender affirming care\u201d to refer to puberty-blocking hormone interventions and even body altering surgery.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The move comes a day after President Joe Biden\u00a0celebrated transgender people by issuing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2022\/03\/30\/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility-2022\/\">statement<\/a> to commemorate \u201cTransgender Day of Visibility.\u201d His statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/30\/joe-biden-celebrates-transgender-day-visibility-your-president-sees-you\/\">included<\/a> jabs at Republican-led states for passing legislation that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/30\/girls-should-compete-against-girls-oklahoma-gov-signs-trans-athletes-ban-into-law\/\">protects women\u2019s sports<\/a> and keeps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/29\/ron-desantis-slams-leftists-lying-about-the-parental-rights-bill-they-support-sexualizing-kids-in-kindergarten\/\">inappropriate sexual conversations<\/a> out of young school children\u2019s classrooms. The Biden administration has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/biden-mark-transgender-day-visibility-actions-83780398\">characterized<\/a> these bill as \u201cdangerous and anti-transgender legislative attacks\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese bills are wrong,\u201d the president wrote.<\/p>\n<p>While HHS is the first federal agency to fly a \u201ctrans pride flag,\u201d federal government buildings have repped the LGBTQ+ agenda by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/07\/04\/vladimir-putin-mocks-rainbow-pride-flag-flying-u-s-embassy\/\">flying<\/a> pride flags in recent years. Last summer, the U.S. embassy in Kabul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/15\/biden-prioritized-lgbt-agenda-afghanistan-terrorists-took-over\/\">flew<\/a> a rainbow flag for Pride Month\u00a0 \u2014 even as Afghanistan was falling to Taliban terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-travel-lifestyle-ac02c7bc5646f451d8cc49b05a22be80\">announce<\/a> several other measures to mark \u201cTransgender Day of Visibility\u201d on Thursday, according to the Associated Press.\u00a0Beginning April 11, U.S. passport applications will include an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/31\/joe-biden-applauds-transgenderism-with-launch-of-new-x-gender-marker\/\">\u201cX\u201d gender marker<\/a>. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is also working on \u201cgender-neutral\u201d scanners. The White House is also working to expand the availability of the \u201cX\u201d gender marker to airlines and federal travel programs, and will make it easier for anyone to change their gender information in Social Security Administration records.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, visitors to the White House will soon be able to select an \u201cX\u201d gender marker option in the White House Worker and Visitor Entry System, which is used to conduct screening background checks for visitors to the executive mansion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katherineeeeee2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday became the first federal agency to fly the \u201ctrans pride flag,\u201d Axios reported.\u00a0 HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra tweeted a photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}