{"id":2401713,"date":"2025-02-12T09:33:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-la-pushes-radical-gender-ideology-on-city-employees\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T09:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:36:31","slug":"exclusive-la-pushes-radical-gender-ideology-on-city-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-la-pushes-radical-gender-ideology-on-city-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: LA Pushes Radical Gender Ideology On City Employees"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fexclusive-la-pushes-radical-gender-ideology-on-city-employees%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=2401713&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>Teh city of Los Angeles is facing criticism for implementing a radical gender ideology \u200ctraining program for its employees, including those in the Fire Department, amidst struggles to recover from severe wildfires. \u200bAccording\u2062 to a whistleblower who\u200c shared internal training \u200bmaterials with The Federalist, the city\u2019s annual &#8220;Workplace Harassment and Abusive \u2062Conduct&#8221; training mandates the use of &#8220;preferred pronouns,&#8221; classifies\u2063 &#8220;gender identity&#8221; as a protected status, and permits individuals\u200c identifying as women to access\u200d womenS\u200d restrooms. <\/p>\n<p>This initiative occurs despite an executive order by former \u2063President Trump that sought to uphold biological truths and protect women\u2019s rights, stating that the Civil Rights Act does not require access to single-sex \u200bspaces based on gender identity. The city\u2019s training also includes definitions of\u200d various \u200bsexual and gender identities and examples of inappropriate workplace behavior, suggesting compliance with diversity, \u200dequity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, while \u200cthe city struggles with employee compensation and supply shortages in emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>Former Mayor Eric garcetti&#8217;s administration introduced policies aimed at enhancing workplace equity \u2063and addressing discrimination, heavily\u200d influenced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of ...\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">critical race theory<\/a> and calls for racial justice following protests against structural racism. The materials reveal\u200c a broader trend of institutional focus on DEI initiatives, raising concerns about the implications for employee rights and workplace dynamics in Los Angeles.  <\/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<div>\n<div>\n<p>As Los Angeles is struggling to recover from deadly wildfires, the city is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-the-fight-against-critical-race-theory-has-only-just-begun\/\" title=\"GOP: The Fight Against ... Has Only Just Begun\">pushing radical gender ideology<\/a> on its employees, The Federalist has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Los Angeles requires its workers &mdash; including in the Los Angeles Fire Department &mdash; to complete annual&nbsp;&ldquo;Workplace Harassment and Abusive Conduct&rdquo; training, according to a whistleblower who chose to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation. He provided screenshots to The Federalist showing internal training, which orders employees to use &ldquo;preferred pronouns,&rdquo; treats &ldquo;gender identity&rdquo; as a protected class, and enables men who think they are women to use the women&rsquo;s restroom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This comes despite President Donald Trump&rsquo;s executive order &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government<\/a>.&rdquo; While executive orders dictate the operations of <a href=\"https:\/\/bja.ojp.gov\/program\/it\/privacy-civil-liberties\/authorities\/executive-orders#:~:text=Although%20executive%20orders%20have%20historically,carry%20out%20policies%20and%20programs.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal and not local<\/a> agencies, the order directs federal authorities to enforce long-standing civil rights and privacy protections &mdash; which Los Angeles is apparently violating.<\/p>\n<h2>Advancing Gender Ideology<\/h2>\n<p>The city&rsquo;s training included a long list of LGBT terms. It defined &ldquo;gender expression&rdquo; as the &ldquo;external appearance of one&rsquo;s gender identity,&rdquo; and &ldquo;deadnaming&rdquo; as using &ldquo;the name that a transgender or gender-expansive individual used at a different time.&rdquo; It said an &ldquo;ally&rdquo; is someone &ldquo;actively supportive of LGBTQ+ people.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The document defined myriad gender identities including &ldquo;allosexual&rdquo; &mdash;&nbsp; someone &ldquo;who experiences sexual attraction of any kind &hellip; not limited by their sexual orientation&rdquo;; &ldquo;gender-expansive&rdquo; &mdash; someone who has &ldquo;a wider, more flexible range of gender identity&rdquo;; &ldquo;gender-fluid&rdquo; &mdash; someone &ldquo;who does not identify with a single fixed gender or has a fluid or unfixed gender identity&rdquo;; &ldquo;genderqueer&rdquo; &mdash; those who &ldquo;see themselves as being both male and female, neither male nor female or as falling completely outside these categories.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It also defined &ldquo;transpawn&rdquo; (someone &ldquo;with one or more transgender or non-binary parent or caregiver&rdquo;) and &ldquo;two spirit&rdquo; &mdash; allegedly used in &ldquo;some American Indian and Alaska Native communities&rdquo; for someone &ldquo;who identifies as having both a male and a female essence or spirit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The city&rsquo;s training also made employees sit through examples of inappropriate behavior that crossed into explicit sexual descriptions. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the stripper I hired for my sister&rsquo;s bachelorette party. We posted it on YouTube,&rdquo; one cartoon employee says to another. &ldquo;Did he take his thong off?&rdquo; she responded. &ldquo;Yep! Here&rsquo;s his full monty&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>Screenshots from Los Angeles citywide training. Courtesy of anonymous whistleblower<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Another example featured an employee asking another to meet for a threesome. &ldquo;Hey Anna, since you are obviously down for a threesome, let&rsquo;s hook up tonight,&rdquo; the cartoon character says.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The training suggests employees should use &ldquo;gender-inclusive phrases&rdquo; like &ldquo;folks,&rdquo; &ldquo;squad,&rdquo; and &ldquo;yinz.&rdquo; It told staff to &ldquo;use preferred pronouns&rdquo; and discussed &ldquo;microaggressions&rdquo; &mdash; which it said are &ldquo;covert&rdquo; and &ldquo;make LGBT+ co-workers feel like they don&rsquo;t belong.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>Screenshots of training. Courtesy of anonymous whistleblower<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It claimed &ldquo;federal laws&rdquo; demand LGBT employees must &ldquo;[b]e called by chosen name and proper pronouns&rdquo; and allowed to &ldquo;transition at work&rdquo; and &ldquo;use restrooms and\/or locker rooms consistent with gender identity.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Trump&rsquo;s executive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">order<\/a>, signed on Jan. 20, clarified the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not require &ldquo;gender identity-based access to single-sex spaces.&rdquo; It directed the attorney general to &ldquo;immediately issue guidance to agencies to correct the misapplication&rdquo; of the law, and to &ldquo;assist agencies in protecting sex-based distinctions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Attorney General shall issue guidance to ensure the freedom to express the binary nature of sex and the right to single-sex spaces in workplaces and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">federally funded entities covered<\/a> by the Civil Rights Act,&rdquo; the order reads. It says the AG and other agency heads with &ldquo;enforcement responsibilities&rdquo; under the law will &ldquo;prioritize investigations and litigation to enforce the rights and freedoms identified.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The order also said &ldquo;federal funds shall not be used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massive-spending-bill-could-funnel-millions-to-abortion-industry-lawmakers-warn\/\" title=\"Massive Spending Bill Could Funnel Millions To Abortion Industry, Lawmakers Warn\">promote gender ideology<\/a>&rdquo; and &ldquo;each agency shall assess grant conditions and grantee preferences and ensure grant funds do not promote gender ideology.&rdquo; Just before this order, the Environmental Protection Agency obligated more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_97T27601_6800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$411.7 million<\/a> to the City of Los Angeles, starting Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31, 2028 &mdash; though apparently, payments have not yet been made.<\/p>\n<h2>Enforcing DEI Compliance<\/h2>\n<p>The training directs workers to click a button and agree with the &ldquo;employer&rsquo;s policy.&rdquo; &ldquo;I have read and understand my employer&rsquo;s harassment policy and know who to contact with questions, for guidance, and to file a complaint,&rdquo; the screen reads.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>Screenshots of the training. Courtesy of anonymous whistleblower<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The City of Los Angeles <a href=\"https:\/\/personnel.lacity.gov\/doc.cfm?get=owe-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Workplace Equity Policy<\/a> labels &ldquo;Gender, Gender Expression and\/or Gender Identity&rdquo; as &ldquo;Protected Categories.&rdquo; It says harassment &ldquo;may include, <em>but is not limited to<\/em>&rdquo; &ldquo;[o]ffensive or unwelcome conduct or comments targeted at one or more employees because of their Protected Category, even if the content is not about their Protected Category.&rdquo; It also said that &ldquo;comments or gestures about a person&rsquo;s physical appearance&rdquo; that are &ldquo;gender-related&rdquo; qualify as harassment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles <a href=\"https:\/\/lacity.gov\/sites\/g\/files\/wph2121\/files\/2022-12\/garcetti_ed34.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">enacted<\/a> the policy in 2022 to advance &ldquo;equity&rdquo; and address &ldquo;all types of harassment and discrimination.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Since 2018, the City has taken various steps to increase equity in our workplaces,&rdquo; then-Mayor Eric Garcetti wrote at the time. &ldquo;In 2020, we confronted a legacy of racial injustice and took a substantive step to advance racial equity across City government.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In the tumultuous wake of Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd in 2020, Garcetti signed the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/lacity.gov\/sites\/g\/files\/wph2121\/files\/2021-04\/mayorgarcettiexecutivedirective27.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Racial Equity in City Government<\/a>&rdquo; executive directive &mdash; leveraging critical race theory to transform the city&rsquo;s institutions.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our city is in pain, and we are hungry for change. The demonstrations for racial justice in recent weeks have not exposed something new &mdash; they&rsquo;ve laid bare the urgent and overdue demand to end structural racism,&rdquo; Garcetti wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Garcetti denounced the <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/California_Proposition_209,_Affirmative_Action_Initiative_(1996)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California Civil Rights Initiative<\/a> of 1996 (which banned racial discrimination in admissions), saying &ldquo;progress in racial equity in California was undermined.&rdquo; He adopted the textbook Marxist playbook, leveraging race and class in an intersectional scheme while citing &ldquo;the cumulative impact&rdquo; of &ldquo;structural racism&rdquo; as proof of oppression.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Garcetti said the <a href=\"https:\/\/lacity.gov\/sites\/g\/files\/wph2121\/files\/2022-12\/garcetti_ed34.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Workplace Equity Policy<\/a> was the &ldquo;next step along the path towards more equitable City workplaces.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to implementing a new policy, Garcetti&rsquo;s directive gave existing <a href=\"https:\/\/lacity.gov\/sites\/g\/files\/wph2121\/files\/2022-12\/garcetti_ed34.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">positions<\/a> names like &ldquo;Workplace Equity Officer&rdquo; and &ldquo;LGBTQ+ Support Officer&rdquo; and created an &ldquo;Equity Review Panel&rdquo; and new &ldquo;Equity Complaint&rdquo; procedures.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Los Angeles has been <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/15\/la-fire-chief-made-dei-one-of-departments-top-priorities-docs-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">struggling<\/a> to pay its employees properly and keep <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/14\/whistleblower-a-year-later-la-paramedics-are-still-left-working-with-expired-medication-as-they-respond-to-fires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unexpired<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/14\/whistleblower-a-year-later-la-paramedics-are-still-left-working-with-expired-medication-as-they-respond-to-fires\/\">  medicine<\/a> in its ambulances, as The Federalist previously reported. Meanwhile, officials like Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley have been pushing &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/15\/la-fire-chief-made-dei-one-of-departments-top-priorities-docs-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">diversity, equity, and inclusion<\/a>&rdquo; (DEI). As the leaked citywide training shows, this is not an isolated incident &mdash; but widespread institutional capture.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Logan Washburn is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawsuit-clark-county-keeps-commercial-addresses-on-voter-rolls\/\" title=\"Lawsuit: Clark County Keeps Commercial Addresses On Voter Rolls\">staff writer covering election integrity<\/a>. He is a spring 2025 fellow of The College Fix. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo&#8217;s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is from Central Oregon but now lives in rural Michigan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles promotes radical gender ideology in employee training<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":2401714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trans-flag.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[50240,3725,45743,28745,50241],"class_list":["post-2401713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-city-employees","tag-exclusive","tag-gender-ideology","tag-la","tag-radical-policies"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trans-flag.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401713","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\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401717,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401713\/revisions\/2401717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2401714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}