NSA Sex Chats Reveal Nature of Gender Ideology

by Emily Washburn | February 28, 2025 | Culture

More than 100 federal officers across 15 intelligence organizations used the NSA’s chat service to send explicit messages about “male-to-female” transgender surgery, laser hair removal, polyamory and orgies.

Messages published by investigative journalists Chris Rufo and Hannah Grossman show the inappropriate discussions took place in “LBTQA” and “IC_Pride_TWG”— two government chat channels reportedly created in the name of “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.”

Though Tulsi Gabbard, the newly-confirmed confirmed Director of National Intelligence, fired officers who participated in the chats, this incident is more than a government foul-up — it’s a referendum on the nature of gender ideology.

Here’s two truths believers must take away from the NSA’s sex chats.

Gender ideology spreads everywhere.

Gender ideology is like a tenacious weed — it spreads anywhere it’s planted.

American intelligence and counterintelligence agencies may not seem like places where gender ideology and its accoutrement would thrive. The sexually explicit messages at the NSA prove otherwise.

One of Rufo’s NSA insiders provided additional details in an article for City Journal.

“About ten years ago, [leadership] started doing the ‘employee resource groups’: African-American, veterans, Pride. It was just a meeting here and there…then it started to get more and more.”

The source continued:

You 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.

No matter how much influence gender ideology wields in personnel decisions and time management, one might hope it wouldn’t affect the way agents do their jobs. Rufo’s insider says that isn’t true, either.

You had analysts that didn’t want to do the reporting they were supposed to be doing because they were going to have to report on somebody’s “dead name.” They were having this crisis of conscience about reporting the adversary’s actual name because they thought it was their “dead name,” and they didn’t want to disrespect the person.

Gender ideology infected the American intelligence apparatus, not because everyone believed in it, but because a few vocal activists faced only passive opposition.

It takes intentional, repeated efforts to root out gender ideology — and no piece of it can be left behind.

Remember that when similar ideas are introduced at your job, church or school.

Gender ideology is fundamentally sexual.

Gender activists work hard to separate gender ideology from sex. They support teaching it in schools. They reject or downplay assertion that men, in particular, can experience sexual gratification from dressing as or acting like women.

The NSA sex chats illustrate the truth: Gender ideology is a set of inherently sexual ideas and beliefs. That’s why, when they proliferated in the American intelligence community, transgender chat channels became increasingly sexual.

The messages released by Rufo frequently featured men who think they are, or want to be, women. Many expressed feeling sexual gratification after undergoing transgender medical interventions.

These commentors likely have autogynephilia — a paraphilia defined as “a male’s propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female.” As the Daily Citizen has previously reported, as many as 3% of men in Western countries may experience autogynephilia.

Academics believe it inspires many men to adopt “trans” identities and behaviors.

Autogynephilia is just one of the many paraphilias, fetishes and deviancies that find acceptance and encouragement in gender ideology. These undeniably sexual foundations are present in everything from drag to the ostensibly “age appropriate” gender unicorn cartoon given to students in public schools.

Why It Matters

Gender ideology is intractable and irreducibly sexual. Don’t give it any foothold in your or your kids’ lives.

Additional Articles and Resources

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What Does it Mean to Be Trans, Anyway?

The Shifting Ground of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

How the “Trans” and Gender Redefinition Issue Attacks the Family

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