Biden references LGBTQ, intersex rights in UN General Assembly speech
President Joe Biden on Tuesday noted LGBTQ and intersex rights in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly. “We cannot turn away from abuses, whether in Xinjiang, Tehran, Darfur or anywhere else.
We have to continue working to ensure that women and girls enjoy equal rights and equal participation in their society; that indigenous groups, racial, ethnic, religious minorities, people with disabilities do not have their potential stifled by systemic discrimination, that the LGBTQI+ people are not prosecuted or targeted with violence because of who they are,” said Biden. “These rights are part of our shared humanity.
When they’re absent anywhere, their loss is felt everywhere. They are essential in the advancement of human progress that brings us together.” Biden in 2021 signed a memo that committed the U.S.
to promoting LGBTQ and intersex rights abroad as part of his administration’s overall foreign policy. The General Assembly is taking place less than five months after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed his country’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, which contains a death penalty provision for “aggravated homosexuality.” The U.S.
