This is both horrifyingly shocking and simultaneously utterly unsurprising.
You know that famous poem that ends with ‘…because there was no one left to speak for me’? This is the opening line.
The policy now reads: “[Office of Intelligence and Analysis] Personnel are prohibited from engaging in intelligence activities based solely on an individual’s or group’s race, ethnicity, sex, religion, country of birth, nationality, or disability.” Notably absent is mention of similar protections for the LGBTQ community.
Technically this means that sexual preference itself can be used as the sole basis for intelligence gathering (OSINT or FIP) by DHS agents. The LGBTQ community lost all protections here previously gained, and everyone could wind up paying the price for it.
Surely the trans people are the problem. Not the Russian agents in the whitehouse.
Surely.
