
US President Joe Biden declared Catholic Easter the International Transgender Day of Visibility, according to a disinformation narrative also picked up in Romania.
NEWS: Joe Biden has declared the holiest of Christian holidays “International Transgender Day of Visibility”, announcing that “transgender Americans are part of the fabric of our nation”, according to Breitbart. Biden issued an official proclamation on Good Friday, reading: “we honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our Nation’s commitment to forming a more perfect Union — where all people are created equal and treated equally throughout their lives.” The official proclamation further states:
“THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility”.
NARRATIVES: 1. Joe Biden turned Easter into Transgender Day of Visibility. 2. (implied) Joe Biden is promoting the “LGBT agenda”.
BACKGROUND: Breitbert is an American publication that promotes the so-called ultra-conservative alt-right ideology. Over the years it has picked up and promoted numerous false narratives, disinformation, and conspiracy theories. False narratives similar – or even identical – to Breitbart's are also promoted by Russian propaganda. For instance, the story of a connection between the United States and the Islamic State jihadist group, re-activated after the March 22 terrorist attack in Moscow, was also promoted by Breitbart several years ago.
Breitbart has been frequently accused of xenophobia and racism, but also of attacks against the LGBTQ+ community, seen as a threat to the moral fiber of Western society. There are dozens of articles on Bretibart that are at least libelous regarding the LGBTQ+ community, and former Breitbart boss, Steve Bannon, has had exchanges with anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups and praised Vladimir Putin for his homophobic politics.
The morally degenerate West, which has strayed from Christian values, is one of the main narratives of Moscow's propaganda war against the EU and NATO, ramped up to its full potential following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Topics related to the LGBT community have been used for years in attempts to discredit Europe’s cultural values. Thus, the EU is presented as “Gayropa”, a territory at odds with traditional, Christian, Orthodox values, which Russia embodies. Homosexuality and pedophilia are very often presented as virtually synonymous in order to convince the public that, by promoting equality of sexual orientation, the goal is to actually legalize pedophilia. Thus, the narratives promote the existence of an “LGBT agenda” that the EU/West (including US Democrats) are allegedly trying to forcefully impose. The narratives are then picked up by local “spokespeople” and adapted to the specificity of each targeted country.
PURPOSE: To undermine the population's trust in the authorities, to promote anti-Western and anti-European rhetoric, to stir and amplify social unrest.
WHY THE NARRATIVE IS FALSE: The International Transgender Day of Visibility is an annual event held on March 31 devoted to celebrating transgender people and raising awareness with respect to the discrimination they face around the world. The holiday is also meant as a celebration of the transgender community’s contribution to society. The event was created by transgender activist Rachel Crandall in 2009. The first International Transgender Day of Visibility was observed on March 31, 2009. Since 2014, it has been celebrated every year by more and more states following an online campaign by transgender activists on websites including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram. Participants posted selfies, personal stories and statistics on transgender issues and other related posts to raise awareness and increase their visibility.
Recognizing the importance of this day for the transgender community, US President Joe Biden has consistently proclaimed March 31st as Transgender Day of Visibility since 2021 and does so every year. The gesture has become routine, and the fact that this year the event falls on the same date as Catholic Easter is just a coincidence, at best unfortunate. However, we cannot help but notice the hypocrisy of the Romanian Christians from activenews, who now consider Catholic Easter the holiest of Christian holidays, although their entire ideology draws on the fact that the only true faith is Orthodox Christianity, while Catholicism and its most prominent exponent, the Pope, are true apostates, supporters of homosexuality and pedophilia.
Veridica has disproved some of the narratives promoted in connection to the “LGBTQ+ agenda”, such as the one that claimed that students in Romania are forced to watch films that promote suicide and homosexuality, the one that claimed that young Romanians will no longer know what their sex is and what species they belong to, and the WHO is targeting the sexual mutilation of children.
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