The Biden administration received a new storm of criticism for the new addition of a third gender solution on immigration uses in the United States.
The updated application, available on the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ) website, as of Monday evening lists male, female and “another gender identity” as options on the form.
On March 29, USCIS confirmed in a speech to Newsweek that the program has been updated, despite a Newsweek archived web search that revealed just male and female decisions at the time of the request.
” On April 1, 2024, USCIS published a novel version of Form N- 400, Application for Naturalization, which is the first USCIS kind to include a second gender option,’ X’, defined as’ Another Gender Identity,'” USCIS said in an email to Newsweek. The X female solution is not currently offered on all other forms.
The modify” supports USCIS’s commitment to making naturalization visible to all those who are qualified and, more frequently, reducing any obstacles to obtaining immigration benefits,” the organization added.
The addition of the third female alternative caused a stir on X, previously Twitter, after an image of the program was shared on the system by right- aircraft account End Wokeness, which has more than 2.4 million followers and says in its profile:” Fighting, exposing, and mocking wokeness”.
EndWokeness posted:” U. S. Citizenship Services just introduced a third gender to its immigration forms”.
The X post amassed hundreds of comments, where critics slammed the Biden administration’s “woke” immigration policies.
What some have called pro-LGBT+ policies have caused backlash for President Joe Biden and administration officials. Following the president’s posts on social media celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility, which took place on Easter this year, the scrutiny grew over the weekend.
Critics specifically took issue with Biden’s message on X posted on Easter Sunday, which read:” Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans: I see you. You are made in the image of God, and you’re worthy of respect and dignity”.
The social media post and its subsequent Friday announcement received swift condemnation.
In a statement to Newsweek on Sunday, the president of Log Cabin Republicans, which claims to be the “nation’s original and largest organization representing LGBT conservatives and straight allies, decried the Transgender Day post as disrespectful.
Former President Donald Trump‘s national press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, called it “appalling and insulting” that Biden “formally proclaimed Easter Sunday as’ Trans Day of Visibility ‘” in a statement on Saturday. Leavitt said the president’s announcement is an example of his administration’s “years- long assault on the Christian faith”.
Newsweek reached out via email to Biden’s representatives for comment.
Biden, who is a Catholic, has championed LGBTQ+ rights while in office, which he highlighted in his Transgender Visibility Day announcement last week.
The president wrote,” I am proud to have appointed transgender leaders to my Administration and to have ended the ban on transgender Americans serving openly in our military.” ” I am proud to have signed historic Executive Orders that strengthen civil rights protections in housing, employment, health care, education, the justice system, and more. I am proud to have passed the Respect for Marriage Act, making it possible for every American to wed the person they care about.
However, Biden said” there is much more to do” and urged Congress to pass the Equality Act, which would” codify civil rights protections for all LGBTQI+ Americans”.
Biden also condemned anti- trans youth laws proposed by “extremists” and bullying and discrimination of transgender people, calling it “un- American” and demanding that it “must end”.
In 2023, more than 500 anti- LGBTQ+ bills were introduced in state legislatures across the country, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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