The Trump administration has removed references to LGBTQ people from official government documents. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the federal agency that manages more than half the foreign aid and development assistance the U.S.
distributes each year, recently released a draft for a revised version of the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy.
The draft excludes several references to LGBTQ people that were in the previous 2012 version. The previous version of the policy defined gender-based violence as “violence directed at an individual based on his or her biological sex, gender identity, or perceived adherence to socially defined norms of masculinity or femininity,” with a footnote expanding on