Sweden, Finland, and Britain are in America’s sex and gender crosshairs.

Ukraine and Russia are at war. China and Taiwan are throwing more than words at each other. North Korea is firing ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan. India and Turkey are making goo-goo eyes at Russia. Saudi Arabia is buying oil from Russia, a country that is seeing record oil revenue in spite of sanctions. China is making friends with non-aligned countries around the world.Pakistan and India have nukes pointed at each other. Afghanistan and Iraq took our magical elixir of trillions of dollars but continue to be sick countries. Britain’s energy crises is morphing into a socioeconomic crisis that will further weaken the country as a military and economic power. America is trying to emulate Britain in energy policies. Mexico is exporting fentanyl and cartels to the US.

The list goes on and on.

Don’t worry: The US State Department is on top of it. Populated with the best and brightest from Georgetown, Yale, and Harvard, the department excels at thinking strategically and tactically. No wonder students pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to attend these schools.

Actually, the State Department excels at thinking about LGBTQI+. (Did I get the letters right?)

According to a story in City Journal, Blinken and Biden (Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and President Joe Biden) have appointed Jessica Stern as Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons. She states that she goes by all pronouns.

Stern’s mission is to be stern with other countries if they dare to think for themselves about LGBTQI+.

Blinken, Biden, and Stern [BB&S] are particularly exercised about countries that have different opinions about gender conversion therapy, even if they are following medical science on the subject. 

The City Journal story gets into the weeds about what conversion therapy is and why there are disagreements about it. But the diplomatic issue can be distilled to one question: whether children with gender dysphoria, or just normal ambiguity or confusion about their gender identity, should undergo some sort of psychological assessment before being subjected to hormone treatments and other medical procedures—and before schools, other institutions, and society at large do everything possible to affirm a child’s first gender inklings, but only if the inklings are of the non-cisgender kind.

BB&S says no. Sweden, Finland, and Britain say yes.

City Journal claims that according to a leaked State Department internal memo, the department is thinking of accusing these countries of being human rights abusers, thus putting them in the same league as nations that stone to death gays, lesbians, and transsexuals.  

This sex and gender imperialism almost make one wish for the old-fashioned imperialism of gunboats.