{"id":2211781,"date":"2024-04-02T20:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T00:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-screens-movie-pushing-for-more-queer-marine-biologists-as-trans-day-of-visibility-celebration\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T20:19:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T00:19:35","slug":"biden-admin-screens-movie-pushing-for-more-queer-marine-biologists-as-trans-day-of-visibility-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-screens-movie-pushing-for-more-queer-marine-biologists-as-trans-day-of-visibility-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Features Film Promoting Diversity in Marine Biology for &#8216;Trans Day of Visibility&#8217; Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-screens-movie-pushing-for-more-queer-marine-biologists-as-trans-day-of-visibility-celebration%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=2211781&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--><p>The Biden administration&#8217;s Department of the Interior plans to celebrate the &#8220;transgender day \u2064of visibility&#8221;\u2063 with a screening of a documentary\u2063 highlighting LGBT inclusion in marine biology. The film focuses on the journey of Nicole Morris, a queer marine conservationist. The event includes \u200ba Q&#038;A session with the filmmaker and LGBTQIA+ representatives from\u2064 various agencies. In observance of the\u2062 &#8220;transgender day of visibility,&#8221; \u200cthe Department of the Interior under the Biden administration will feature a documentary showcasing LGBT inclusion in marine biology. This film \u2062spotlights Nicole Morris, a queer marine conservationist. The occasion will also feature \u2062a Q&#038;A \u200dsession with the filmmaker and LGBTQIA+ representatives from diverse agencies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s Department of the Interior (DOI) is set to celebrate \u201ctransgender day of visibility\u201d with a screening of a documentary about LGBT inclusion in marine biology, an internal email obtained by The Daily Wire reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The department, tasked with the management and conservation of federal land, announced that it would host a screening of \u201cDiving for Rays: A Queer Conservationist\u2019s Story\u201d in an employee digest email sent on March 26th that was obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransgender Day of Visibility is an internationally recognized event that is celebrated annually on March 31st to help raise awareness and increase understanding of the challenges, importance and struggles of our transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming communities,\u201d the email reads. \u201cThe Department will mark this important occasion by showing a short documentary called \u2018Diving for Rays: A Queer Conservationist\u2019s Story.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_717797\" style=\"width: 633px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-717797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Daily Wire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The documentary that Interior is screening in celebration of transgenderism details the experiences of Nicole Morris, a native of San Diego, California who complains that the field of marine biology is saturated with straight men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter realizing the lack of LGBTQ+ visibility in marine science led her to abandon her childhood dream, Nicole Morris decided to re-route her life path to try and become a marine biologist, to conserve endangered rays,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/media\/video\/view.htm?id=2AEE1954-4F15-4D9A-8B26-7B741BB90BF9#:~:text=Close%20Copy-,Description,biologist%2C%20to%20conserve%20endangered%20rays.\">description<\/a> of the film, posted to the National Park Service website reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I was ever exposed to were documentaries that had the perspectives of straight men,\u201d Morris bemoans in the documentary. \u201cAs I got older it became harder and harder to imagine myself in those films,\u201d she says before later adding, \u201cSo I had to ask myself \u2018was marine science something that a queer woman could do?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film screening comes as President Joe Biden has directed the entire federal bureaucracy to push leftist gender ideology and the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda. Biden most recently reaffirmed his commitment to far-left dogmas by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-declares-easter-sunday-transgender-day-of-visibility\">declaring<\/a> Easter Sunday as \u201cTransgender Day of Visibility,\u201d a move that was widely condemned by his critics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate the joy, strength, and absolute courage of some of the bravest people I know.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we show millions of transgender and nonbinary Americans that we see them, they belong, and they should be treated with dignity and respect. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mhixHV9KC2\">pic.twitter.com\/mhixHV9KC2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1774466760084717656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The film details Morris\u2019 journey to becoming a marine conservationist, with her learning how to scuba dive before later being accepted into a graduate school program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think getting scuba certified helped me to finally see myself for the first time. That helped me to see myself as both a marine conservationist and as a queer woman,\u201d she says at one point in the 22-minute long documentary. \u201cI like to think that even though I might be different from most marine conservationists, my perspective as a queer woman in science is just as important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am fully out and I am fully proud and I am a queer marine conservationist,\u201d Morris says at the end of the film.<\/p>\n<p>An Interior spokesman told The Daily Wire that the screening is not mandatory, though he did not answer questions pertaining to the cost of the screening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the documentary, there will be a question-and-answer session with the filmmaker, Nova, West, and a panel of representatives from multiple LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Groups from the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and the National Park Service,\u201d the email also states.<\/p>\n<p>The email suggests that the screening was organized by Tristian Edgarian, who leads Interior\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/office-of-diversity-and-equal-opportunity\/employee-resource-groups\">LGBTQ Employee Resource Group<\/a> along with James Mosley.\u00a0The film screening comes as the wider federal bureaucracy has embraced far-left views on both gender and race, institutionalizing ideology into their practices and initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Even the intelligence community has pushed far-left dogmas under the Biden administration. A recent Daily Wire investigation revealed that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence sent out a DEI newsletter to the entire intelligence community, including the FBI, CIA, and DOJ, instructing agents to avoid using \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/internal-docs-show-entire-intelligence-community-warned-to-avoid-problematic-phrases-on-islamic-terrorism\">problematic phrases<\/a>\u201d when discussing Islamic terrorism. The same DEI document also featured an article from an anonymous intelligence official who claimed that crossdressing makes him a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-show\">better intelligence officer<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DEI trainings have become commonplace throughout the federal bureaucracy, with the Internal Revenue Service hosting a mandatory training for criminal investigators that pulled material from a radical transgender academic who called for the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mandatory-irs-diversity-training-includes-material-from-trans-academic-who-called-for-death-of-whiteness\">death of whiteness<\/a>\u201d in an article titled \u201cDead Honky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has signaled that he will take steps to gut the administrative state if he is reelected, using tools like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/07\/22\/trump-presidency-schedule-f-federal-employees\">Schedule F<\/a>, an executive order, to strip civil service employment protections from bureaucrats who have influence over the policy-making process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States,\u201d Trump said at a rally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/workforce\/2022\/03\/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f\/363145\/\">touting<\/a> the plan. \u201cThe deep state must be brought to heel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of the Interior, under the Biden administration, plans to mark &#8220;transgender day of visibility&#8221; with a documentary screening on LGBT inclusion in marine biology. An internal email from The Daily Wire disclosed this initiative. The department, responsible for federal land management and conservation, disclosed its intention to host the screening event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":2211782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-40-e1712008027736.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-40-e1712008027736.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211781","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\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}