Under the Obama and Biden administrations' diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates, the CIA switched from hiring personnel based upon language skills and knowledge of a particular country or culture to hiring based upon sexual preference and [[gender]]. This led to a bevy of [[transgender]] case officers in the CIA's HUMINT programs overseas attempting to recruit spies in foreign cultures where the general reaction of the local population was revulsion. | Under the Obama and Biden administrations' diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates, the CIA switched from hiring personnel based upon language skills and knowledge of a particular country or culture to hiring based upon sexual preference and [[gender]]. This led to a bevy of [[transgender]] case officers in the CIA's HUMINT programs overseas attempting to recruit spies in foreign cultures where the general reaction of the local population was revulsion. |