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March 2025The Trump administration promptly ordered the firing of roughly 100 federal employees whom whistleblowers exposed for turning the nation’s intelligence agencies into “a cult that was hellbent on pushing gender ideology,” creating “a counterintelligence risk” that is “going to get people killed in the field.”
The employees produced messages from an online forum dedicated to government work items in which agents promoted transgender surgery, sexual fetishes and polyamory, while cheering the death of evangelical leader Pat Robertson.
“They hate capitalism. They hate Christians. They’re always espousing socialist and Marxist beliefs,” said one of the two insiders at the National Security Agency (NSA).
Two NSA employees, one still with the agency, turned over screenshots of numerous explicit online messages from the Interlink messaging program designed for the U.S. intelligence community’s professional activities. Some of the messages — written by employees of a wide range of federal intelligence services — discussed the sexual benefits of having one’s genitals removed, disowning family members who expressed opposition to gender ideology, and “ethical non-monogamy.”
The intelligence agencies, intended to investigate national security threats, became infested with hives of like-minded activists who used their perch in the sensitive government agencies to promote their views at taxpayers’ expense. “According to the current NSA employee, these groups ‘spent all day’ recruiting activists and holding meetings with titles such as ‘Privilege,’ ‘Ally Awareness,’ ‘Pride,’ and ‘Transgender Community Inclusion,’” revealed investigative journalists Christopher Rufo and Hannah Grossman, who published many of the messages that fell into their hands.
Several employees discussed the physical euphoria they experienced after having transgender “bottom surgery,” which attempts to transform healthy male anatomy into faux female genitalia. “Mine is everything,” wrote one intelligence agent, who dubbed the surgery “100000000% worth it ... I would not change anything if I had to do it again.”
Long discussions mulled the propriety of increasingly non-biological pronouns. An employee at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) insisted that, if someone asks you to use dehumanizing it/its pronouns, or foul language long used as slurs, "refusing to is a form of erasure."
One such individual made a self-introduction on the chat forum: “It/its user here. While I understand we can make some people uncomfortable, keep in mind that the dehumanizing aspect either a) doesn’t apply or b) is a positive effect when we’re requesting it.” Other chat participants used “xe/they” and “they/them” pronouns in their bios.
The message boards often devolved into discussions of polyamory, the whistleblowers revealed. One NGA employee attempted to explain the ponderous relationships of members of a “polycule,” a group of people who engage in “polyamory,” or open relationships: “A is my [girlfriend], and B-G are her partners. . . . then B&C are dating but not C&D, nor E, F, or G with any of the others, though there are several MWB (metas-with-benefits) connections. LOL.” The casual sex habits of “polycule” members get so tangled that “in some cases not all members have even an idea who the others are.”
Employees were constantly trying to “one-up” one another with how pro-trans they were and how deviant their practices had become, said a whistleblower.
Rufo recoiled when The New York Times described the messages as containing “sexual themes” in its coverage of the story. “The chat messages contained more than ‘sexual themes.’ They weren’t discussing symbolism in Madame Bovary,” noted Rufo.
An NSA whistleblower told Rufo the cultural arrangements began a decade ago, under then-President Barack Obama. Slowly, the niche events and discussions overtook the entire organization. An employee “could be hired as a mathematician, a staff officer, or system engineer, but you would spend your time going to these events and having meetings all day about it. They got themselves into position to help craft policy and started pushing the idea that if you want to get promoted, you have to participate in these events.”
The continual left-wing recruitment is the culmination of decades of Democratic presidents’ decisions to open the intelligence agencies to increasingly niche, radical activists. President Bill Clinton allowed members of the LGBTQ movement to have access to classified information when he signed Executive Order 12968 in 1995.
The Obama administration began openly recruiting such activists no later than 2012. Michael Barber, program manager of the CIA’s LGBT Community Outreach and Liaison, co-hosted a recruiting event with the Miami-Dade Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. The Biden administration posted ads for intelligence agents who identified as LGBTQ.
“And then everything became Pride,” the whistleblower said. “It was like a cult that was hellbent on pushing gender ideology.”
There are only “a very small number of them, but they wield an enormous amount of power. And outside of the sick stuff, you also see a prevalent Marxist philosophy,” said the whistleblower. “They hate capitalism. They hate Christians. They’re always espousing socialist and Marxist beliefs.”
The intelligence agency employees abused those who objected to their radical activism by engaging in cancel culture. “They just got hammered. They would just start coming out with ‘transphobe’ and ‘homophobe’ right away or calling you a ‘racist.’ And that’s why a lot of folks are still hesitant to say anything, because you still have people at these agencies in those key spots. It infected everything,” said a whistleblower.
The activism impacted national security. Analysts sometimes refused to write complete and accurate reports on America’s adversaries, because they may have to use to use that person’s “dead name,” the name they used before identifying as transgender. “The folks that are into this don’t put their effort into their work. I don’t care if you’re politically left or right; you can’t have an unbiased mind if you’re writing a report, and you’re constantly focused on ‘how does this apply to gender ideology,’” the whistleblower said. “When you do that, it’s going to get people killed in the field.”
“The folks like that were quite unstable. I see it as a counterintelligence risk. But it’s being normalized and it’s being praised,” said the whistleblower. “I hope this is the start of getting our intel agencies back to what they should be doing, which is focused on intel and supporting the warfighter.”
