Biden's Autopen Autocrats Spent Millions of Taxpayer Dollars to "Queer" Maps, to Make Maps More Gay

They wanted to "queer map-making."

They also spent money on other gay shit of various natures.

A bizarre exchange on Capitol Hill last week put the spotlight back on how taxpayer dollars were spent under the Biden administration after a State Department official struggled to explain grants tied to diversity programs abroad -- including one she described as an effort to make certain maps "more gay."

The moment unfolded during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing where Rep. Brian Mast pressed State Department Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers about several taxpayer-funded initiatives tied to DEI programs during the administration of Joe Biden.

"Can you tell me what is queering the map?" Mast asked, referring to a grant referenced in the State Department's public diplomacy spending.

"So I think we were trying to make the maps more gay," Rogers replied.

Mast immediately pushed back. "Literally? How do you make a map more gay? Or gay at all?" he asked.

Rogers conceded she couldn't explain it.

"I don't know," she said. "Since the age of cartography, we've had pretty good maps, but maybe they weren't gay enough."

She suggested the wording may have come from academic language around critical theory, noting that "sometimes people use 'queer' as a verb." Rogers added that the project may have involved maps related to Czechia and Slovakia, though she acknowledged she was unsure of the details.

"So maybe those countries asked for it," she said. "I doubt it, but I don't know."

The exchange drew visible disbelief from Mast.

The Florida Republican then began listing several other projects funded through similar grants, describing a series of diversity and inclusion initiatives sponsored by the State Department around the world.

Among them were programs focused on "non-binary and transfrancophones" and research into "linguistic attitudes and ideologies toward inclusive French" in Montreal, Canada.

Related: California professor (of course) rejects the words "gay" and "lesbian," as they "harm" trans people.

A California professor laid out an argument for tossing out sexual identifiers, as terms like gay and lesbian 'harms trans people,' they claimed.

Brandon Andrew Robinson, an associate professor at the University of California, spoke on the matter with the university while promoting their book, 'Trans Pleasure: On Gender Liberation and Sexual Freedom.'

Robinson, who uses they/them pronouns, argued that 'identities limit us' and the ongoing creation of unlimited new identities demonstrates how such labels 'fail to capture the full complexities of gender, sexualities and desire.'

They particularly noted hyper-specific identities, such as gynosexual, sapiosexual, asexual or pansexual.

'It's a several-fold argument,' Robinson told UC Riverside. 'First, I want people to question why we privilege gender and genitals above all other attributes - like height or race - when we conceptualize our sexual identity.'

They continued on to argue that the term 'gay,' referring to a man being attracted to a man, 'assumes a man is a stable, inherent category.'

'When history shows the definition of manhood is constantly changing,' they said.

'Gender essentialism [the belief that men and women possess inherent, fixed traits determined by biology that define their identity and gender roles] also harms trans people, who often complicate those binary boundaries.'

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Robinson argued that, without such labels and identifiers, society would be able to reconstruct on a more biological outlook of humanity instead of focusing on the current defined gender roles and how they affect a persons sexuality.

'It allows us to explore our desires beyond labels that often confine and constrain us. And it allows us to explore our desires beyond shame that often comes with many labels as well,' Robinson said.

Robinson's book was created through research they conducted on Reddit and through around 48 Zoom interviews with transgender women or trans people who identify with a feminine gender expression.

'I wanted to see how people were talking about their desires for trans people, and how trans people were talking about their own desires around dating,' Robinson said.

'In less than 12 hours, I got over 100 responses. I think many trans women were enthusiastic about joining because they had never been asked about this part of their lives before.'

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They previously authored 'Coming Out To the Streets' and co-authored 'Race and Sexuality.'

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