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DHS ends ban on intelligence activities targeting people for sexual orientation, gender identity | Snopes (www.snopes.com)

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Summary:

In February 2025, as U.S. President Donald Trump called for an end to diversity, equity and inclusion practices in the federal workforce, reports claimed the Department of Homeland Security — led by Secretary Kristi Noem — had removed bans on conducting intelligence activities on people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Such reports shared copies of the original DHS report, which showed a rule that originally prohibited personnel from conducting intelligence activities based only on a person's "race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, country of birth, nationality, or disability." The latest such report appeared to have removed the references to sexual orientation and gender identity.

The claim is correct that the current DHS report detailing such a rule no longer states how it applies to sexual orientation or gender identity. We looked at an older copy of the report as well as the latest copy and found the reference had been omitted. As such, we rate this claim as true.

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[–] BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago

Cant imagine why..

[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I haven't trusted Snopes since they refused to call Elon's Nazi salute anything more than a gesture.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Being overly cautious with things is exactly their job. They deal with checking objective truth. Elon did in fact make this gesture that very closely resembles the Nazi salute is all Snopes should be saying because to say more would be making a logical conclusion but would be beyond a direct description of empirical evidence. Snopes is not intended to be a news source, it should never be giving conclusions. It is intended to be a very trustworthy fact checker.

[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

They presented themselves as fact checkers and then refused to state something that was obviously a fact as a fact. That's really shitty of them. They never cared about being that cautious before, now that it really matters they do? I doubt it.