1. Trump didn't claim it:
Intelligence officials maintained a chatroom to discuss polyamory and transgender surgeries, internal documents reveal.
christopherrufo.com
2. Musk didn't claim it.
3. Opinion noted.
4. I don't think it was under an official rubric of federal DEI. That isn't what's claimed. It's saying that the authors tried to disguise it as DEI discussions.
Do you agree, if true, those discussions have no place in an NSA internal messaging tool?
1. OK, fine. Rufo is as big a liar. And how the fuck would Rufo know? Oh, he got chat logs from NSA. That's reliable. I had thought that the information purportedly came from DOGE.
2. Right, it wasn't under the rubric of DEI. Nobody would try to disguise it as such. It would like trying to infiltrate a gathering of Wall St analysts in a clown costume.
3. How the fuck would I know whether those discussion have no place in an NSA messaging tool? I've never used that tool. I've never been in the NSA. I've never been transgender. I don't know what those discussions were actually about. How the fuck am I supposed to answer the question? And why the fuck would I want to? Again, there is no law of nature requiring anyone to form opinions about things they know nothing about.
For instance: are there hetero people engaging in the same sort of talk? Is this a support group, like many other support groups that exist on the chat servers? Is it drawing on member knowledge for the purpose of profiling or going undercover? If there's an intercept about people talking about being trans, it would probably be helpful to know if that's how trans people really talk or think, or whether it is some sort of private code.
Did someone ask the trans person, "were you gay before the transition?" and the person replies. Whose fault is that? Are we going to come down on people for talking about their own experiences? That would surely be selective.
Generally speaking, I don't care if trans people are talking about their life experiences with other people voluntarily. If they were interjecting this sort of talk into what are otherwise purely business conversations, it might be a problem. But if someone asks a trans person, "what is sex like after reassignment surgery?" why can't the trans person answer? I mean, I'd be curious to know that, just for understanding the world.