Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter Among Biden’s Governmentwide Anti-Christian Policies

A governmentwide anti-Christian effort launched under the Biden administration was much worse than previously imagined and a new report published by a Department of Justice (DOJ) task force documents the alarming details of woke measures adopted by most federal agencies to conduct the mission that clearly targeted conservatives. This includes the Biden DOJ mandating the adoption of gender ideology throughout the federal government, illegally weaponizing a landmark civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination to allow men into women’s sports and intimate facilities, punishing faith-based homeless service providers who raised concerns about biological men entering women-only shelters and allowing federally-funded schools to facilitate “gender transitions” without disclosing education records to parents. In 2024 the Biden administration delivered a sucker punch on Good Friday, a solemn and sacred day for Christians, by announcing that Easter Sunday, a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, would be officially recognized by the government as Transgender Day of Visibility.

The flagrant examples go on and on with an extensive list of anti-Christian measures that even President Trump probably could not imagine when he signed an executive order in early 2025 to right the wrong. The order created a special Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias within the DOJ to protect the religions freedoms of Americans by ending the anti-Christian weaponization of the government. “The Founders established a Nation in which people were free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination or retaliation by their government,” Trump’s order states, adding that the previous administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses. The task force uncovered the Biden administration’s radical policy agenda and documents cases in detail in the recently issued 200-page report, which includes over 300 pages of exhibits and evidence illustrating how individual federal agencies discriminated against Christians. Besides the DOJ, they include key agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the departments of Education, Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Health, and Human Services (HHS) as well as Homeland Security.

Examples of the “systemic culture” of anti-Christian bias include the FBI collaborating with the leftwing extremist group Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to investigate, track and scrutinize Catholics who were wrongly labelled “potential violent extremists or domestic terrorists” based on their views on abortion, immigration, human sexuality and their preferred popes. A 2023 FBI memorandum included in the report asserts that “radical-traditionalist” Catholics are domestic-terrorism threats and suggests infiltrating Catholic churches as “threat mitigation.” The DOJ criminally charged numerous peaceful pro-life Christians for praying and demonstrating outside abortion facilities. Among those charged and slapped with multi-year prison sentences was a Catholic priest, an 87-year-old woman, a 75-year-old grandmother and a father of 11 arrested after praying and singing hymns outside an abortion facility in Tennessee as part of a politically motivated persecution campaign by the Biden administration.

HHS, which is responsible for enhancing the health and well-being of all Americans, took multiple steps to discriminate against Christian families over their religious beliefs because Biden officials viewed their values as harmful to children with gender dysphoria or same-sex attraction. The agency prevented foster children from being placed with Christian families or Christian foster agencies that did not affirm the Biden administration’s policies on sexual orientation and gender ideology. The Department of Education issued excessive fines against Christian universities, pushed policies in which men were allowed into girls’ locker rooms and promoted ideological materials about gender identity to young children that fundamentally conflict with Christian tenets. The agency also allowed federally funded schools to facilitate gender transitions without disclosing education records to their parents. HUD made participation in its housing programs conditioned on compliance with the administration’s woke gender identity nondiscrimination requirements even if they conflicted with a provider’s religious beliefs.

Federally managed museums on the National Mall forced pro-life students participating in a peaceful demonstration to remove religious and pro-life attire or leave the premises and the National Park Service twice denied a Catholic organization access to a national cemetery where it planned to hold a quiet Memorial Day mass to honor fallen soldiers. “As our report lays out, the Biden Administration’s actions devastated the lives of many Christian Americans,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Chair of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, said in a statement. “The Department of Justice will continue to expose bad actors who targeted Christians and work tirelessly to restore religious liberty for all Americans of faith.” Blanche confirms that no American should live in fear of being punished by their government for their faith.