Grayzone report on the International Republican Institute’s sponsorship of trans events in Bangladesh, IRI’s funding coming from the National Endowment for Democracy.

So why did transgender people make up a quarter of the IRI program’s participants, in a country of 173 million where a 2022 census found they comprise just 0.007% of the population? The IRI documents suggest it’s because the Institute views gay and transgender people as uniquely disruptive actors who can be deployed to manipulate political realities overseas: “Facing discrimination and prejudice, LGBTI people tend to participate in social change activities to eventually bring changes to politics.”

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All told, between March 1, 2019 and December 31, 2020, the Republican group sponsored 160 photographs, 30 paintings, 21 theatrical shows, five short films, three “transgender dance performances,” three documentaries, two rap songs and accompanying music videos, and one book. Meanwhile, IRI staff had “identified over 170 democratic activists who would cooperate with IRI to destabilize Bangladesh’s politics,” they wrote. 

Using wokeness in service of a political agenda to overthrow a country’s government and install a US aligned regime. Yeh, that sounds about right.

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/02/07/republicans-transgender-dance-bangladesh/