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Emails: Hillary Clinton fumed about gender-neutral passport forms
Hillary Clinton fumed when the State Department replaced ‘mother and father’ with the gender-neutral ‘parent one and two’ on passport applications without her knowledge, an email released on Wednesday (30 September) reveals.
The former secretary of state sent an strongly worded to her top aides in 2011 demanding to know who had made the decision, which she said she would not defend in Congress.
‘I could live w letting people in nontraditional families choose another descriptor so long as we retained the presumption of mother and father,’ she wrote.
‘We need to address this today or we will be facing a huge Fox-generated media storm led by Palin et al.’
The State Department announced the change in late 2010 ‘in recognition of different types of families,’ which was hailed as a victory by LGBTI rights groups.
But the day after the email, Clinton issued an order that the department retain ‘mother’ and ‘father.’
Read the full email below:
Who made the decision that State will not use the terms “mother and father” and instead substitute “parent one and two”? I’m not defending that decision, which I disagree w and knew nothing about, in front of this Congress. I could live w letting people in nontraditional families choose another descriptor so long as we retained the presumption of mother and father. We need to address this today or we will be facing a huge Fox-generated media storm led by Palin et al.
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Darren Wee
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