Senator Marsha Blackburn (TN) introduced a bill on Thursday that would make President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization permanent, barring massing reform. 
The <a href="https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/services/files/E5F2FE62-438C-4157-98FE-439FA3126326" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> would block taxpayer dollars from either funding WHO programs or American membership in the organization unless the organization took significant steps to demonstrate independence from China and root out leftist ideology. Blackburn&#8217;s fellow Republican Senators John Barrasso (WY), Rick Scott (FL), and Ted Cruz joined Blackburn in putting the legislation forward.
“The World Health Organization has long been a puppet for the Chinese Communist Party, grossly mismanaging the COVID pandemic and taking over a billion dollars of U.S. funding without advancing our interests,” Blackburn told The Daily Wire. “We must support President Trump’s actions to hold the WHO accountable by ensuring any future president who wants to rejoin meets concrete conditions of improvement.”
The bill would codify Trump’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-u-s-to-withdraw-from-world-health-organization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">day one executive order</a> withdrawing the United States from the organization, citing WHO handling of COVID and demands for &#8220;onerous&#8221; and unfair payments. 
Under certain conditions, the legislation said that it would be possible for the United States to rejoin WHO. These conditions include the WHO adopting reforms to ensure that humanitarian aid is not politicized, demonstrate independence from the Chinese Communist Party, grant observer status to Taiwan, and end funding or promotion of things like abortion, climate change, and sex-change procedures. 
Another condition would stipulate that humanitarian aid and medical supplies could not be diverted to Iran, Syria, and North Korea. 
“American tax dollars cannot be used to fund the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) and World Health Organization’s (WHO) cover-up of the COVID-19 pandemic. The mismanagement, failed transparency, and lack of independence at the WHO is inexcusable,” Barrasso told The Daily Wire. “Our bill ensures that not one penny of taxpayer money is spent rejoining the WHO if serious reforms aren’t made to prevent another failed pandemic response.”
A companion version has been introduced in the House by Republican Representatives Jodey Arrington (TX), Ron Estes (KS), Greg Steube (FL), and Anna Paulina Luna (FL).
When Trump issued the executive order last month to pull America out of WHO, he said that the country was paying too much to be a member of the United Nations-backed organization in comparison to other countries like China. 
“So we paid $500 million to World Health when I was here and I terminated it,” Trump said, adding that it “seemed a little unfair” because China was paying around $39 million to the organization. 
Trump ended American participation in WHO back in 2020, but that decision was later reversed by Joe Biden.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> signed an executive order Monday night to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) over its handling of COVID and demands for “onerous payments.” 
The order from Trump restored a policy that had been put in place at the end of his first administration, but was later revoked by President Joe Biden. When speaking with reporters about the order, Trump said the U.S. was paying too much to be a member of the UN-backed WHO in comparison to other countries like China. 
“So we paid $500 million to World Health when I was here and I terminated it,” Trump said, adding that it “seemed a little unfair” because China was paying around $39 million to the organization. 
“China pays $39 million and we pay $500 million and China’s a bigger country,” he said. 
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Trump’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-the-worldhealth-organization/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> says that the U.S. first withdrew from WHO in 2020 because of “the organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.”  
“In addition, the WHO continues to demand unfairly onerous payments from the United States, far out of proportion with other countries’ assessed payments,” the order added. “China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has 300 percent of the population of the United States, yet contributes nearly 90 percent less to the WHO.”
The order officially retracts a letter Biden sent to the United Nations on January 20, 2021, re-entering the U.S. into the global health body. 
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WHO said that it was disappointed with Trump&#8217;s decision. 
&#8220;We hope the United States will reconsider and we look forward to engaging in constructive dialogue to maintain the partnership between the USA and WHO, for the benefit of the health and well-being of millions of people around the globe,” the organization <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/world-health-organization-who-trump-pulls-us-2018064" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
WHO has again faced scrutiny from Republican lawmakers in recent months over its transgender guidelines and a global “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-governors-issue-warning-about-who-pandemic-treaty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pandemic treaty</a>” it was proposing.
In November, a coalition of congressional Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-republicans-demand-who-chief-disband-activist-panel-on-transgenderism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged WHO to disband</a> its Guideline Development Group (GDG) on transgenderism because of its ties to leftist activist groups. The lawmakers said that the group has bypassed and ignored scientific evidence showing the harms of transgender procedures.
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A coalition of congressional Republicans urged the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/world-health-organization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Health Organization</a> on Monday to “disband” the group it put in charge of developing guidelines on transgenderism, according to a letter first shared with The Daily Wire.
Led by doctors Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), the lawmakers sent a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Quill-Letter-L21750-Letter-to-the-Director-General-of-the-World-Health-Organization-RE-Gender-Guideline-Development-Group-Ve-169.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus demanding that he dissolve the organization&#8217;s Guideline Development Group (GDG) on transgenderism because of its ties to leftist activist groups. The lawmakers say that the group has bypassed and ignored scientific evidence showing the harms of transgender procedures in favor of ideology.
“Any guidelines that affect the health and well-being of individuals must be rooted in rigorous scientific evidence and must be free from conflicts of interest,” McCormick told The Daily Wire. “We cannot allow the voices of powerful activists to dictate medical practices that should prioritize patient safety and health outcomes.”
The guidelines group was <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/18-12-2023-who-announces-the-development-of-a-guideline-on-the-health-of-trans-and-gender-diverse-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> in December 2023 with the purpose of developing a framework “on the health of trans and gender diverse people&#8221; and promoting &#8220;health policies that support gender-inclusive care, and legal recognition of self-determined gender identity.&#8221;
In addition to Marshall and McCormick, the letter was signed by 27 House Republicans. Marshall told The Daily Wire that the group was another example of why the United States should cut ties with WHO. 
&#8220;The World Health Organization has abandoned its mission to cater to radical globalist activists; it is past time to stop its funding and cut our losses,&#8221;the Republican senator said. &#8220;The WHO&#8217;s &#8216;gender identity&#8217; cult and its embrace of irreversible mutilation surgeries and psychologically harmful chemical therapies are just one of the many reasons the U.S. needs to walk away from this globalist organization.&#8221;
The letter says that the process surrounding the guidelines has “been shrouded in secrecy, irregularities, and profound conflicts of interest.”
&#8220;Incomprehensibly, the Group bypasses evidence reviews on the safety, effectiveness, risks and costs of treating gender dysphoria with medical interventions, including cross-sex drugs,” the letter says. “Instead, it moves directly to consider how countries should provide such interventions and impose the highly controversial, sex-denying framework of &#8216;gender identity,&#8217; including through legal ‘self-identification.’”
Specifically, the lawmakers take issue with the fact that multiple of the members of the guidance group are members of the far-Left World Professional Association for Transgender Healthcare (WPATH), an organization that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-harris-admin-sued-for-records-on-trans-surgeries-on-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed</a> age limit restrictions for its guidelines for transgender procedures at the behest of the Biden administration.
The letter noted that Walter Bouman and Gail Knudson, members of the WHO guidance group and WPATH, signed onto a letter to pressure researchers not to publish results that would “negatively affect the provision of transgender health care in the broadest sense.”
The letter said that other <a href="https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/hq-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-library/biographies_tgd-gdg_proposed_members_2024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">members</a> of the GDG have been part of a group called Global Action for Trans Equality, a group that promotes transgender procedures.
“GATE exists to promote, not assess gender transition interventions. It cannot possibly serve as an unbiased participant,” the Republicans wrote.
The lawmakers said that the GDG’s group so far looked more like “a global marketing campaign rather than an honest assessment of the medical evidence.”
“The proposed GDG guidelines mirror the fraudulent WPATH process: like WPATH, the GDG has opted not to review the evidence to determine whether hormones should be widely available. Instead, it will only focus on how to best promote their wide availability,” the lawmakers wrote.
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The Republicans said that WHO <a href="https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/hq-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-library/tgd_faq_16012024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policies</a> that allow sex to be determined by “self-identification” pose a risk to women and children.
“Policies that treat sex as a matter of ‘self-identification’ endanger women and children,” the letter says. “Most Americans recognize this fact, and strongly oppose ‘self-identified’ biological males accessing private spaces and competitions reserved for females.”
The letter says that the whole group should be scrapped, and any future guidelines grounded in a careful review of scientific evidence.
“This vulnerable population deserves evidence-based care, not a shameless promotion of medical experiments tainted by ideology and industry interests,” the lawmakers wrote. “We urge you to disband this Guideline Development Group, investigate the disreputable process that led to its formation, and discard its proposed guidelines.&#8221;
WHO has long come under fire and been accused of politically motivated action from its handling of COVID and close ties to China.

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With just 34 days until the election, Vice President Kamala Harris is pulling out all the stops. She’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-plays-border-hawk-in-first-border-visit-as-democratic-nominee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">going to the border</a>. She’s busting out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamalas-new-campaign-accent-has-people-comparing-her-to-classic-cartoon-character" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously-unheard accents</a>. And she’s telling voters that former President Donald Trump is coming for their booze.
Earlier this month, the Harris campaign <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/harris-alcohol-prices-trump-tariff-plan-1235113532/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> “Trump’s Tequila Tax,” a social media push aimed at convincing voters that Trump’s tariff proposals would cause imported alcohol prices to skyrocket.
“He wants to tax your tequila, and your Coronas, your Modelos, your Hennessy, all of it,” a campaign surrogate says in a TikTok.
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Have you heard of the Trump Tequila Tax?
Trump wants a 20% tax on all imported goods. That includes your tequila, Modelos, and Coronas. <a href="https://t.co/GjsZcRkp7q">pic.twitter.com/GjsZcRkp7q</a>
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If one wanted to engage in a little armchair psychology, one might say that Harris is projecting. Because if she wins the White House in November, there might not be any tequila to tax in the United States.
Under Harris and President Joe Biden, an obscure bureaucratic committee has been drafting new guidance, which, if adopted, would recommend that Americans never drink — at all. While these guidelines would not ban alcohol outright, they could, as <a href="https://reason.com/2024/08/10/the-secret-committee-behind-americas-prohibition-comeback/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reason reports</a>, lead to a wave of bad press and a slew of class action lawsuits against alcohol companies. Together, that could cripple an already-faltering alcohol industry.
This is hardly the first instance of the Biden-Harris administration attempting to meddle in Americans’ lives in the name of “public health.” Biden proposed banning <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-reverses-course-on-banning-menthol-cigarettes-over-fear-of-angering-black-voters-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">menthol cigarettes</a> early in his term, only to reverse course earlier this year when it became clear the ban would make then-candidate Biden unpopular among black voters. And the White House has come under fire for its attempt to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-official-who-supports-gas-stove-crackdown-has-a-gas-stove-in-his-own-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ban gas stoves</a> in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
But unlike the Biden-Harris administration’s attempts to ban gas stoves and menthol cigarettes — both of which received ample media coverage and public scrutiny — the effort to change alcohol guidelines has taken place behind closed doors.
Federal dietary guidelines are updated every five years by the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services. For the current revision, HHS has <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/06/alcohol-dietary-guidelines-congress-koob/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kicked</a> the alcohol question to something called the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking (ICCPUD). The committee is, <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2024/08/03/dietary-guidelines-alcohol-consumption/74595108007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a “secretive, six-person panel” that “operates deep within” HHS, far from the public eye.
Currently, the federal government <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/about-alcohol-use/moderate-alcohol-use.html#:~:text=to%20not%20drinking.-,Moderate%20drinking,or%20less%20in%20a%20day." target="_blank" rel="noopener">defines</a> “moderate drinking” as two daily drinks or less for men, and one for women. But <a href="https://tomwark.substack.com/p/no-amount-alcohol-healthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sources</a> close to the ICCPUD say the committee is close to adopting the World Health Organization’s 2023 <a href="https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declaration</a>: “No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health.”
It may seem strange that an American agency would so wholeheartedly embrace the WHO’s position, particularly since it’s at odds with longstanding federal recommendations.
But it’s less shocking when you consider that three members of the six-person committee are literally Canadian — like, they live in Canada. It’s even less shocking when you realize that those three Canadian panelists were instrumental in imposing similar guidance at home, <a href="https://reason.com/2024/08/10/the-secret-committee-behind-americas-prohibition-comeback/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slashing</a> Canadians’ recommended weekly drink intake in 2013 from 15 for men and 10 for women to two across the board.
That recommendation was so controversial it came under fire in Canada, a country where shady, unelected bureaucrats already govern what kind of drugs <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/patented-medicine-prices-review.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">patients can take</a>, and whether or not someone is eligible for <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-services-benefits/medical-assistance-dying.html#a2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">elective euthanasia</a>. Imagine how it’ll play in the United States, a country that almost started a whole <a href="https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/whiskey-rebellion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second Revolutionary War</a> two years after the first one ended because the government tried to tax whiskey.
In fact, the ICCPUD maneuverings are already so unpopular that they’ve spurred waves of bipartisan opposition. In April, Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Lisa McClain (R-MI) <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Letter-to-HHS-re-alcohol-review.pdf">wrote</a> to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra expressing concern that the Dietary Guidelines revision may be violating federal law. By September 5, Becerra had not responded to Comer and McClain’s request for information, prompting the lawmakers to send a follow-up <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-issues-subpoenas-to-hhs-and-usda-for-docs-related-to-development-of-alcohol-consumption-guidelines%EF%BF%BC/">letter</a>.
In the intervening months, two separate bipartisan groups of lawmakers wrote to Becerra, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and NIH Director George F. Koob, to express concern about the opacity and legality of the revision process and request further clarification on what the ICCPUD would decide and when.
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So far, they haven’t heard back.
It’s unclear if Harris will allow the committee to impose its new guidelines should she win the White House — but signs indicate that she will. She was presumably on board with her administration’s plans to ban menthols and gas stoves, and has previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamalas-campaign-says-she-will-not-push-medicare-for-all-she-fully-supported-it-5-years-ago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> remaking the American healthcare system to look more like Canada’s.
She certainly won’t face any pushback from Tim Walz, who imposed a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3118502/zynsurrection-walz-zyn-tax-minnesota/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">95% tax on Zyn nicotine pouches</a> as Governor of Minnesota. Nothing goes better with no drinks like unaffordable nicotine.
It’s ironic that Harris, who has made so much hay about Trump’s “secret” plan to remake the federal bureaucracy, is currently overseeing a behind-closed-doors push to completely upend American dietary guidelines. Of course, unlike Project 2025, the ICCPUD’s proceedings are not public, nor the subject of any headlines. And, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-again-addresses-project-2025-says-dems-are-engaging-in-pure-disinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unlike Trump</a>, Harris has not disavowed, nor even acknowledged, this effort to stop Americans from enjoying the occasional drink.
That’s about as ironic as her saying Trump’s coming for your tequila.

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A group of 24 Republican governors are urging the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> to reject a proposed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/world-health-organization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Health Organization</a> (WHO) global “pandemic treaty,” warning that it would endanger the rights of American citizens.
The governors <a href="https://governor.sc.gov/sites/governor/files/Documents/5.22.24%20Final%20Joint%20Letter%20WHO%20Pandemic%20Treaty.pdf">wrote</a> on Wednesday that the WHO’s proposal would encroach on the sovereignty of American states and put the civil liberties of Americans in the hands of a group of unelected global officials. The WHO has been widely criticized over its investigation of COVID&#8217;s emergence, especially as it pushed out a report that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-who-scientist-behind-report-questioning-covid-lab-leak-theory-axed-over-alleged-sexual-misconduct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> the COVID lab leak theory as “extremely unlikely.”
“The objective of these instruments is to empower the WHO, particularly its uncontrollable Director-General, with the authority to restrict the rights of U.S. citizens, including freedoms such as speech, privacy, travel, choice of medical care, and informed consent, thus violating our Constitution’s core principles,” the governors wrote. 
According to a <a href="https://apps.who.int/gb/inb/pdf_files/inb9/A_inb9_3Rev1-en.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">draft</a> of the WHO proposal, participating countries “shall cooperate with one another, in bilateral, regional and multilateral settings, to progressively strengthen pandemic prevention and public health surveillance capacities.”
The agreeing countries are also told to “recognize that environmental, climatic, social, anthropogenic and economic factors increase the risk of pandemics and endeavour to identify these factors and take them into consideration in the development and implementation of relevant policies, strategies and measures at the international, regional and national levels.”
Legacy media fact-checkers have downplayed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-who-is-using-a-covid-19-pandemic-treaty-to-create-a-new-global-health-security-architecture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concerns</a> about the pandemic agreement, but the governors argued that joining the agreement would pose risks for the United States.
“If adopted, these agreements would seek to elevate the WHO from an advisory body to a global authority in public health,” they wrote. “Under the proposed amendments and treaty, the WHO’s Director-General would supposedly gain unilateral power to declare a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ (PHEIC) in member nations, extending beyond pandemics to include a range of perceived emergencies.”
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&#8220;Additional concerns arise regarding the establishment of a global surveillance infrastructure and requirements for member states to censor speech related to public health, potentially facilitating the proliferation of biological weapons,&#8221; the governors added. 
The governors of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming signed the letter. 
Negotiators are <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pandemic-treaty-talks-wire-likely-miss-first-deadline-sources-say-2024-05-10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">still working</a> on coming up with the final &#8220;pandemic agreement&#8221; guidelines after a missed deadline for wrapping up talks.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) established an expert advisory group on transgender health, seeking guidance from a transgender former prostitute who called the line of work “empowering” and an academic attempting to popularize “genderf**king” as a critical legal theory.
The WHO’s Guidelines Development Group on the Health of Trans and Gender Diverse People was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gender-ideology-critics-slam-whos-biased-and-rushed-transgender-guidelines-process">established</a> to facilitate the creation of <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/18-12-2023-who-announces-the-development-of-a-guideline-on-the-health-of-trans-and-gender-diverse-people">guidelines</a> aimed at &#8220;increasing access and utilization of quality and respectful health services by trans and gender diverse people,&#8221; and establishing “health policies that support gender-inclusive care, and legal recognition of self-determined gender identity.”
Among the experts named by the WHO is Erika Castellanos, who the WHO <a href="https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/hq-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-library/biographies_tgd-gdg_proposed_members_2024.pdf?sfvrsn=5b1e7491_3">says</a> is “a trans woman living with HIV from Belize who resides in the Netherlands.” Castellanos, a former prostitute, is a member of the International AIDS Society, where he <a href="https://www.iasociety.org/meet-our-members/erika-castellanos">focuses</a> on “youth engagement in HIV activism.” It also includes Florence Ashley, an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta and former clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, who the WHO <a href="https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/hq-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-library/biographies_tgd-gdg_proposed_members_2024.pdf?sfvrsn=5b1e7491_3">describes</a> as a “transfeminine jurist and bioethicist whose work focuses on trans issues in the legal and healthcare systems.” His most recent work is on how to use &#8220;genderf**king&#8221; as a strategy to resist &#8220;gender governance.&#8221;
The WHO&#8217;s decision to staff the board with radical transgender activists calls into question the organization&#8217;s ability to objectively assess the medical consequences of interventions that attempt to modify one&#8217;s sex.
It told The Daily Wire that its recommendations &#8220;are always based on balancing of available evidence, human rights principles, consideration of harms and benefits, and inputs of end users and beneficiaries.&#8221;
The experts, however, are clearly out of the mainstream community, and have no health expertise. Castellanos <a href="https://www.erika-castellanos.com/blank-1">said</a> that he became an expert in the field by being a prostitute.
“Surviving migration, sex work and homelessness, all while being HIV positive and transgender, have made me strong and resilient in the work I do,” Castellanos noted in a biography. “I have had the opportunity to share my insights with young trans and HIV activists.”
Rather than just “surviving” prostitution, however, Castellanos says “sex work was the most empowering thing that ever happened to me,” explaining that he &#8220;started working in the streets, offering my sexual services” in Mexico after fleeing home, eventually using drugs and ending up in prison.
Castellanos is now engaged in various fields of activism, previously serving as a <a href="https://unaidspcbngo.org/delegate/erika-castellanos/">delegate</a> to the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS on behalf of Trans United Europe, a “sex worker umbrella NGO for Trans Black People of Color (BPOC) and migrants from the global south.”
He’s also listed as the <a href="https://gate.ngo/about-us/people/#:~:text=Erika%27s%20background%20is%20in%20sex,dignified%20death%20for%20the%20clients.">Executive Director</a> of Global Action for Trans Equality, an <a href="https://gate.ngo/">organization</a> that calls itself “an international advocacy and expert organization focused on gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics.” The organization’s site explains that “Erika’s background is in sex work issues and HIV activism.”
Florence Ashley, another transgender activist who was appointed to the WHO&#8217;s Guidelines Development Group, describes <a href="https://www.florenceashley.com/">himself</a> as “metaphorically a biorg witch with flowers in their hair” and is the author of an <a href="https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=098115008081070091089119075105027090008027046078024071069076074124101102011120080118041001120035023028110097001084067021001068029091024062067121094110116079079066030055045081094107083121098095007015025121025118002069084118029001015027067022117004081021&amp;EXT=pdf&amp;INDEX=TRUE">article</a> set to be published in the McGill University Law Journal titled “Genderf**king as a Critical Legal Methodology,” where he discusses ways to resist “gender governance.”
“Genderf**king is defined by its focus on the needs and experiences of those who ‘f**k’ with gender, resisting attempts at gender governance through laws, policies, and practices,” an abstract from the article reads before going on to claim that the approach “offers a rich and fertile approach for analyzing a social, political, and legal world indelibly marked by regimes of gender and, in so doing, steps on the path towards gender liberation.”
The 34-page article expounds on the approach through “stylistic” means, namely, sexually charged humor. “The present article as well as several of the past writings I mention include puns and jokes, many of them sexual. More than incidental, I would suggest that these stylistic elements are an extension of genderf**king’s substance into the realm of form and style,” the paper reads before explaining that the theory can also be used to challenge academic standards. “For just as genderfucking rejects the politician’s idea that gender must be policed, so does it reject the academician’s idea that writing must be policed. The name ‘genderfucking’ itself offers a challenge to dominant mores around sex and profanity.”
Ashley goes on to ask “Are sex jokes not a celebration of scholarly fucking? Is there not something peculiarly trans about sex jokes?”
The article also addresses transgender identification among youth, claiming “Regardless of whether youth know their gender well, nobody is better placed to navigate the world of gender in their name. Only they can catch glimpses or gaze upon the shape of their gender mosaic.” Ashley goes on to apply his specific approach, writing, “Under a genderf**king lens, gender self-determination seems the only way to properly account for the needs of all trans youth, including those who defy attempts at disciplining gender.”
He also explains that the concept of “genderf**king” is intended for those “whose gender is an eldritch horror adorning a seven-dimensional tentacle c*ck. People whose gender oscillates so fast that it undergoes spontaneous fission.”
“You can’t handle the truth of their gender,&#8221; Ashley wrote.
Ashley <a href="https://medium.com/@florence.ashley/things-ive-called-my-gender-over-my-26-years-of-life-9179631ab34f">produced an extensive list</a> of largely nonsensical terms that he’s used to refer to his gender, which includes the words and phrases “alien,” “alienby,” “trashgender,” “gender malcontent,” “deception,” and “unfathomable swirling void.”
Ashley, whose placement on the WHO advisory board <a href="https://twitter.com/libbyemmons/status/1743999902726709709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1743999902726709709%7Ctwgr%5E5abfa92d77895e0494bc5d8b4822871e10cf36a2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecollegefix.com%2Ftrans-professor-with-be-gay-do-crimes-tattoo-appointed-to-who-taskforce%2F">sparked</a> criticism online,  has <a href="https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/hq-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-library/biographies_tgd-gdg_proposed_members_2024.pdf?sfvrsn=5b1e7491_3">informed</a> the WHO that he is &#8220;unable to attend due to a conflict in schedules.&#8221;
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the Director of <a href="https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&amp;ai=Cqg9s7xagZaPUF7G16toPyuOb2AfqhIP8dMSf0pbrEaqs6xsIABABILlUYMmm3ozgpNAUoAGUxZTGKMgBAcgD2CCqBFxP0Bd_9qf7mK26X9vL8wyQ2_guFATm6Qzvb5vMEhRdI6-UUxYZUOougaDWvpsY29jVwXb0aBfp7ypieAzg6dAT6sS1KOsTpnQxsJxHCIsaHCr7jTXlyFM9dZYwjMAEq4yYlcwEgAWQTogF0OC06k2gBmaAB5T95KUDiAcBkAcBqAfruLECqAemvhuoB7masQKoB_PRG6gH7tIbqAf_nLECqAfK3BuoB5KvsQKoB7uksQKoB5KmsQKoB9imsQKoB961sQKoB9uqsQKoB9CqsQKoB9ywsQKoB7-5sQKoB-qxsQKoB6q4sQKoB5S4sQKoB-y4sQKoB763sQKoB7K7sQKoB7O7sQKgCMiPpgSwCAHSCCYQAjIEg-CADjoJwuGAgICABIJAQgEESNHs8ypQCVjjh9mv4NWDA5oJHWh0dHBzOi8vZG9ub2hhcm1tZWRpY2luZS5vcmcvsQmBaxYL1YR1a7kJgWsWC9WEdWv4CQGYCwGqDAIIAegMBqoNAlVTyA0BghQOCAMSCmRvIG5vIGhhcm3IFNXE_u7ovs_nZNAVAfgWAYAXAZIXCRIHCAEQAxiSA-AXAg&amp;ae=2&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiAwP6sBhDAARIsAPfK_waf8CA5hn0wpT-7JPdZePF1tOMFislnRKIIImR6OFVOFRV-P1GhrFYaAvcoEALw_wcB&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiQ2dCv4NWDAxVamIQIHWKZA_sQ0Qx6BAgCEAE&amp;nis=8&amp;dct=1&amp;cid=CAASFeRoM9ecC-fAT9Gf841c4yrGPd7PLQ&amp;dblrd=1&amp;sival=AF15MEDkfu_pwEqZzK2s2h4DdrM6lscvKkq5NhagFIQ2WUejSCh8Qzm0CQk0WHkTXqrVbp7_U6Zbmvk2AO6oionGhIHZXoAvMqRE3GvAWra22sg2l4ZUUybkd8mUsmYsZ9vouQRqkJ1sYd3E0u0_Od6-dXMiS5UnmvnQox6aExbXKBlUZDASA-o&amp;sig=AOD64_0Kk0wS3niecb11KqTeeINOEQtNRA&amp;adurl=https://donoharmmedicine.org/%3Futm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dcpc%26utm_campaign%3D20231222%26utm_term%3Dbrand%26utm_content%3Dv1">Do No Harm</a>, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting the politicization of medicine, warned that the WHO&#8217;s guide development group will likely ignore the increasing body of literature that challenges the basis of support for medical interventions intended to modify a person&#8217;s sex.
“At a time when the European community is in the midst of a great re-examination of the entire edifice of so-called ‘gender affirming care,’ it is indeed unfortunate that the world health organization has decided to enlist a number of gender activists to create new guidance,&#8221; Goldfarb remarked. &#8220;Guideline formation should be first based on a careful and comprehensive review of the medical literature. If this is done, these activists must come to the conclusion that &#8216;gender affirming care&#8217; should be dramatically curtailed as has occurred in five European nations.&#8221;
&#8220;Unfortunately, the World Health Organization&#8217;s choice of individuals suggest that their present commitment to this activity will prevent them from approaching this problem in an evenhanded and rigorously scientific approach,&#8221; Goldfarb continued.
The WHO defended its decision to establish the guidelines and development group, telling The Daily Wire its recommendations &#8220;are always based on balancing of available evidence, human rights principles, consideration of harms and benefits, and inputs of end users and beneficiaries. &#8221;
But Castellanos and Ashley are just two of the leftwing trans activists that the WHO placed on the Guidelines Development Group. There are also four individuals associated with the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), the organization that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leading-transgender-health-association-releases-new-guidelines">removed minimum age requirements</a> for medical interventions, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone therapy, and sex change operations from its medical guidelines.
Two former presidents of WPATH, Walter Bouman and Gail Knudson, are included in the WHO’s guidelines development group.
Critics of gender ideology have blasted the WHO over its Guidelines Development Group, launching a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gender-ideology-critics-slam-whos-biased-and-rushed-transgender-guidelines-process">petition</a> called “WHO Decides?” that objects to the “biased panel tasked with creating new transgender health guidelines.”
“Of the 21 panel members, over three-fourths are transgender activists. The few physicians either specialize in HIV or are ‘gender doctors,’” the <a href="https://who-decides.org/">petition</a> reads before adding “There is currently a worldwide explosion of teenagers wishing to undergo a sex change; WHO’s stated plan to promote hormones and “legal recognition of self-identified gender” will harm innumerable gender-dysphoric youth, gays, lesbians and other women.”

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A group of gender ideology critics has launched a petition against the World Health Organization&#8217;s (WHO) ongoing process to develop transgender health guidelines.
The WHO <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/18-12-2023-who-announces-the-development-of-a-guideline-on-the-health-of-trans-and-gender-diverse-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> its plan to advance new transgender guidelines on December 18. Several WHO departments that deal with gender, equity, and sexual health are working together on the guidelines.
They will advise on &#8220;health sector interventions&#8221; aimed at increasing &#8220;respectful health services&#8221; for trans-identifying and &#8220;gender diverse&#8221; people, the WHO said. Among other things, the guidelines will focus on &#8220;gender-affirming care,&#8221; including hormones, health policies that support &#8220;gender-inclusive care,&#8221; health care for trans-identifying people who have suffered &#8220;interpersonal violence,&#8221; and legal recognition of self-determined gender identity.
The <a href="https://who-decides.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">petition</a> from gender ideology critics is dubbed &#8220;WHO Decides?&#8221; and says the signers &#8220;strongly object&#8221; to the &#8220;highly biased&#8221; panel tasked with coming up with the guidelines.
More than three-fourths of the WHO panel&#8217;s 21 members are transgender activists, the petitioners claim, and the few physicians are either HIV specialists or “gender doctors.” The panel also does not include any child development experts or detransitioners, people who transitioned but then regretted it, the petitioners noted.
&#8220;There is currently a worldwide explosion of teenagers wishing to undergo a sex change,&#8221; the petitioners say. &#8220;The majority of the panel members have expressed strong views in favor of hormonal and surgical interventions for transition, dismissed known and potential risks associated with these interventions, and denigrated psychotherapeutic approaches as &#8216;conversion therapy.'&#8221;
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The petition calls on the WHO to cancel its first meeting in February and &#8220;go back to the drawing board.&#8221;
Currently, the panel is set to meet on February 19 to offer its recommendations at the WHO&#8217;s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
The WHO is offering a public comment period of just three weeks that fell over Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Day and will end on January 8. The petitioners noted that most people are &#8220;unplugged&#8221; and celebrating the holidays during this time.
The petition currently has more than 3,600 signatures from pediatricians, clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, parents of trans-identifying children, teachers, counselors, nurses, professors, and even one person who self-identified as a &#8220;transsexual.&#8221;
Several groups signed the petitions, including the LGBT Courage Coalition, Sex Matters, LGB Alliance, Transgender Trend, Gender Dysphoria Alliance, and Therapy First.
In recent years, several countries in Europe have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/englands-national-health-service-abandons-gender-affirming-model-of-care">pumped the brakes</a> on both transgender social transitions and medical interventions for children. This came after detransitioners started speaking out about how it had harmed them.

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Gender Ideology Critics Slam WHO’s ‘Biased’ And ‘Rushed’ Transgender Guidelines Process

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WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insisted that any allegation that his organization was close to China was an “outright lie.”
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Tedros was <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/who-chief-denies-he-sided-with-china-at-start-of-covid-outright-lie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> by National Review reporter Jimmy Quinn if he regretted his initial handling of Covid, as concerns had been expressed that he had hewed too close to Beijing&#8217;s line.
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“At one point or the other, we had issues with many countries,” Tedros responded. “If we had issues with many countries, it means maybe we’re doing the right thing. But the allegation that we’re close to China or something is an outright lie, actually.”
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“People who try to build narratives, they say that,” he continued. “But from what happened, start from there, and until now, if you’ll see all the relationships we had with countries, and some of the misunderstandings with countries, sometimes with this country the other opposite allegation with the other, it’s because we focus on science.”
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In June 2022, it was <a href="https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/news/coronavirus/193248/who-boss-secretly-blames-china-lab-for-covid-leak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Tedros &#8220;privately believes the Covid pandemic started following a leak from a Chinese laboratory,&#8221; according to a top government official. &#8220;While publicly the group maintains that ‘all hypotheses remain on the table’ about the origins of Covid, the source said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), had recently confided to a senior European politician that the most likely explanation was a catastrophic accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, where infections first spread in late 2019.&#8221;
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In May 2020, a <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/corona-ausbruch-vertuscht-muss-china-fuer-die-pandemie-schaeden-zahlen-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000170816271" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report from Der Spiegel</a> claimed WHO officials communicated with the Chinese government, and might have deliberately delayed giving other countries critical information about the spread of the novel coronavirus after being pressured by China and its president, Xi Jinping.
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The report claimed that BND, the German Federal Intelligence Service, discovered that &#8220;Xi met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on January 21&#8221; and asked WHO to delay reporting accurate information about the novel coronavirus, The Daily Caller reported.
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WHO called the report “unfounded and untrue,&#8221; saying that the two had never spoken over phone.
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Later, Tedros praised China, saying he appreciated the information the communist country provided to WHO.
&#8220;If you remember at the initial stage, you remember about the sequence, they provided the sequence immediately, and we appreciated that they shared the sequence of the virus Sars-CoV-2 immediately. And then there were other things like especially the measures they were taking on Wuhan to slow the speed of the spread to the rest of the world. And we identified that and we encouraged them to do that, because slowing the spread is very important,&#8221; he said.
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‘Outright Lie’: World Health Organization Chief Denies Hewing To China’s Line

A Danish scientist who headed up the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/world-health-organization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Health Organization</a>’s investigation into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> over the origin of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a> has been fired over alleged sexual misconduct.
According to a new report from The Financial Times, Peter Ben Embarek <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/fires-scientist-led-covid-search-sex-misconduct-99068991" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was fired</a> last year from the WHO after the organization said that they had found he was guilty of sexual misconduct following an investigation. Embarek was known for leading a WHO team investigation into the origins of COVID that declared the lab leak theory as “extremely unlikely.”
“Peter Ben Embarek was dismissed following findings of sexual misconduct against him and corresponding disciplinary process,” WHO spokeswoman Marcia Poole said. “The findings concern allegations relating to 2015 and 2017 that were first received by the WHO investigations team in 2018.”
Poole said that there were other “victim(s) [who] did not wish to engage with the investigation process.”
Embarek <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/who-dismisses-lead-covid-origins-investigator-sexual-misconduct-2023-05-03/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Reuters that he was in the dark about allegations made against him, but said that a 2017 incident “was settled immediately in a friendly way.&#8221;
&#8220;I am not aware of any other complaints and no other complaints have ever been brought to my attention,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I duly contest the qualification of harassment and I am quite hopeful in the defense of my rights.&#8221;
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While Embarek and the WHO’s report was skeptical of the lab leak theory, recent reports from both the Energy Department and the Senate gave credence to the possibility that COVID escaped out of a lab in China and was not a natural occurrence.
According to the report from a Senate health committee, the theory that COVID escaped from a lab, which was widely criticized at the beginning of the pandemic, had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/covid-likely-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-senate-gop-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">good evidence</a> to support it.
“The preponderance of circumstantial evidence supports an unintentional research-related incident,” the report said.
“This report is a crucial development in getting to the bottom of COVID-19’s true origins and exposing the deception of those that sought to conceal how this pandemic started,” <a href="https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-marshall-releases-bombshell-covid-19-origins-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall. “A preponderance of evidence in this report suggests there were two separate unintentional lab leaks dating back to fall of 2019 in Wuhan, China with significant evidence supporting that COVID-19 was a lab-created and altered virus.”

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World Health Organization officials warned Tuesday that an &#8220;extremely, extremely dangerous&#8221; situation threatens public health after fighters in conflict-ravaged Sudan occupied a central national laboratory carrying samples of deadly diseases, including polio and cholera.
&#8220;There is a huge biological risk associated with the occupation of the central public health lab&#8230; by one of the fighting parties,&#8221; Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO&#8217;s representative in Sudan, told reporters in Geneva, observed by <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12011135/WHO-warns-huge-biological-risk-Sudan-fighters-storm-national-laboratory.html">The Daily Mail</a>.
Hundreds of civilians and paramilitary forces were killed or injured in a series of airstrikes in Khartoum last week as the Sudanese army bombed positions held by the country&#8217;s RSF paramilitary group in a power struggle that some international observers fear could ignite a full-blown civil war.
Abid said fighters took over the Khartoum laboratory in the African country and &#8220;kicked out all the technicians from the lab&#8230; which is completely under the control of one of the fighting parties as a military base,&#8221; NBC <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sudan-virus-risk-world-health-organization-says-lab-occupied-disease-samples/">reported</a>. However, the health official did not specify which of the two warring factions gained control of the public health facility.
Abid sounded the alarm, noting that the lab carries a range of deadly diseases, including measles, polio, and cholera while warning chemical and bio-risk hazards also pose a high risk due to a lack of functioning generators.
The head of Khartoum&#8217;s national lab reportedly broke the news to Abid on Monday via phone call, one day before both military groups agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire following &#8220;intense&#8221; negotiations brokered by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
World Health officials reported on Tuesday that the Sudanese health ministry had tallied at least 459 deaths and over 4,000 others injured. Five deaths included aid workers from two United Nations agencies: the International Organization for Migration and the World Food Programme. Both groups have since suspended their operations.
&#8220;In areas where intense fighting has hampered our humanitarian operations, we have been forced to reduce our footprint,&#8221; Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the United Nations humanitarian office, said. &#8220;But we are committed to continue to deliver for the people of Sudan,&#8221; adding the team would lead humanitarian operations out of Port Sudan after transferring from Khartoum.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said it&#8217;s bracing for approximately 270,000 people to flee Sudan into neighboring countries after thousands have escaped.
The Biden administration defended the State Department&#8217;s decision this week to evacuate embassy personnel from Sudan while taking limited steps to aid thousands of Americans thought to still be in the country.
The U.S. Department of State has estimated that 16,000 Americans remain in Sudan. Still, the government does not have a firm count because Americans living or traveling abroad are not required to check in or make their plans known to the U.S. government.
Still, officials said they have refrained from launching broader evacuation efforts for Americans in Sudan because of the region&#8217;s instability.
Blinken said that many Americans currently in Sudan are dual citizens who do not want to leave the country despite its deteriorating conditions.
&#8220;The overwhelming majority of Americans citizens in Sudan are dual nationals who made their lives there, who have been living there for years, decades, for generations, and many want to continue to do that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But for those who are seeking to leave, we will continue to engage directly with them to see what we can do to help them, and, like I said, with allies and partners as well to help facilitate their departure.&#8221;
Tim Pearce and Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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WHO Warns 'Huge Biological Risk' Threatens Public Health After Sudan Fighters Occupy Lab Carrying Deadly Diseases

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Everything is in flux following a report that the U.S. Department of Energy has concluded that the virus that causes COVID likely leaked from a coronavirus lab in Wuhan, China.
Since then, there have been other unsettling reports that shine a spotlight on just who said what and when.
For instance, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s recently retired leading infectious disease expert, had long sought to sell the idea that the virus emerged naturally. Nearly three years ago, Fauci cited a study that found the virus’s mutations “consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.”
“There was a study recently,” Fauci told reporters on April 17, 2020, when asked if it was possible that virus came from a Chinese lab, “where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences … in bats as they evolve and the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.&#8221;
“So, the paper will be available. I don’t have the authors right now, but we can make it available to you,&#8221; Fauci said.
But new emails revealed by House Republicans show a completely different story. The emails indicate Fauci &#8220;prompted&#8221; that very study to disprove the theory that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan. In fact, he had final approval of the scientific paper he had commissioned, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/05/new-emails-show-fauci-commissioned-paper-to-disprove-wuhan-lab-leak-theory/">reported</a>.
Enter Dr. Jeremy Farrer. Like Fauci, he &#8220;prompted&#8221; the scientific paper. Farrar was then the head of the British nonprofit, the Wellcome Trust, which has long ties to the pharmaceutical industry. On the day the paper was published, emails show Farrar pushed for an edit to the piece. &#8220;Sorry to micromanage/micro edit! But would you be willing to change one sentence?”
He wanted to change the word “unlikely” to “improbable” so a sentence would read: “It is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation of an existing SARS-related coronavirus.”
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Now, Farrar is about to become chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO). He is set to take the six-figure role in the second quarter of this year after stepping down as director of Wellcome.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a doctor, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11826847/Experts-call-lab-leak-denying-doctor-Jeremy-Farrar-sacked-World-Health-Organization.html">told</a> DailyMail.com that he opposes Farrar&#8217;s appointment.
&#8220;Jeremy Farrar, the guy who then publicly disdained the lab leak theory despite privately admitting he was still 50:50 on the lab leak should not be in charge of the WHO or any investigations into the origins of Covid,&#8221; Paul told the U.K. paper.
The Mail reported that emails leaked last year show Farrar privately expressed concern that COVID could have leaked from a lab in February 2020. &#8220;He famously told Dr. Anthony Fauci and colleagues that he was 50:50 between a lab leak and natural origin,&#8221; the paper said.
But just weeks later, Farrar signed his name to a letter in the Lancet medical publication denouncing the lab leak hypothesis as nothing more than a &#8220;conspiracy theory.&#8221;
Dr. David Livermore, a microbiologist at the University of East Anglia in the U.K., also told the Mail WHO should reconsider Farrar&#8217;s appointment.
&#8220;He first privately speculated on a lab leak origin for Covid. Yet, he then added his signature to a notorious Lancet letter seeking to debunk the lab leak theory. If he is to lead the WHO, it would be wise for Dr. Farrar to commission investigations of Covid&#8217;s origins entirely independent of the Organization&#8217;s hierarchy, himself included,&#8221; Livermore said.
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Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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 Sen. Rand Paul Says COVID Lab Leak-Denying Doctor Jeremy Farrar Should Be Fired From New Post As World Health Organization's Top Scientist

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With Republicans now in control of the House, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/temporary-conflict-is-necessary-rep-chip-roy-touts-speaker-vote-concessions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX)</a> reintroduced legislation Thursday to defund the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/world-health-organization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Health Organization</a> and raised concerns about China&#8217;s influence over the group.
The bill, titled ‘‘No Taxpayer Funding for the World Health Organization Act,&#8221; cracks down on contributions to the WHO that have <a href="https://www.who.int/about/funding/contributors/usa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">risen to hundreds of millions of dollars</a> annually, making the United States one of the United Nations agency&#8217;s largest donors.
&#8220;Funneling millions of taxpayer dollars to the corrupt World Health Organization that serves the Chinese Communist Party is a slap in the face to hardworking American families struggling under record high inflation, and to all those whose lives and livelihoods were ruined and destroyed by the COVID pandemic,&#8221; Roy said in a statement given to The Daily Wire.
The legislation takes aim at the two types of contributions to the WHO. &#8220;Notwithstanding any other provision of law, effective on the date of the enactment of this Act, the United States may not provide any assessed or voluntary contributions to the World Health Organization,&#8221; the bill states.
Assessed contributions are &#8220;required dues a government agrees to pay when it becomes a member,&#8221; while voluntary contributions &#8220;fluctuate annually and are often earmarked for specific projects,&#8221; <a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11369" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Congressional Research Service</a>.
Roy, a conservative who is a firm believer in Congress&#8217; &#8220;power of the purse&#8221; as a means to enact change, has accused the WHO of &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/rep-chip-roy-dems-more-supportive-of-china-than-protecting-american-businesses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">siding with the communists in China</a>&#8221; over concerns that the group helped Beijing <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/FINAL_Letter-to-WHO-re-China-Pressure-.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cover up the origins of the coronavirus pandemic</a>. His bill is the latest salvo in recent years over U.S. contributions to the WHO as the group faced scrutiny for how it responded to the health crisis.
Then-President Donald Trump announced in the spring of 2020 that he intended to halt funding to the WHO while his administration reviewed its handling of COVID. He <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-says-he-halting-funding-world-health-organization-n1183941" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused the group</a> of &#8220;severely mismanaging and covering up&#8221; the threat.
Trump&#8217;s declaration prompted condemnation from Democrats.
“President Trump must stop his petty, counterproductive political games,” <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/14/trump-world-health-organization-funding-186786" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY)</a>, who was chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee at the time. “The coronavirus cannot just be defeated here in the United States, it has to be defeated in every conceivable location throughout the world.”
Soon after taking office in January 2021, Biden wrote to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to say the United States no longer planned to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-united-states-will-withdraw-from-the-world-health-organization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">withdraw its membership</a> from the group. Meanwhile, Biden&#8217;s chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, announced the United States <a href="https://apnews.com/article/us-who-support-006ed181e016afa55d4cea30af236227" target="_blank" rel="noopener">would resume supporting</a> the World Health Organization and join its COVAX vaccine initiative to distribute COVID vaccines around the world.
At the time, Roy quickly <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/419?r=6&amp;s=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced legislation</a> to slash WHO funding, but the House, then controlled by the Democrats, did not take any action on the bill. From 2020-2021, the United States was the third largest donor to the WHO, investing nearly $700 million, <a href="https://www.who.int/about/funding/contributors/usa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the group reported last May</a>. Only Germany and the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation contributed more money in that timeframe.
Roy&#8217;s new bill stands a better chance for consideration with Republicans now running the lower chamber, but it still faces long odds to become law with Democrats still in charge of the Senate and Biden in the White House.
&#8220;The WHO not only regularly promotes abortion and radical gender ideology but also praised China for their &#8216;leadership&#8217; at the beginning of COVID-19 and has done nothing to hold the CCP accountable for the spread of COVID-19,&#8221; Roy said in his statement to The Daily Wire. &#8220;It is far past time for Congress to use its power of the purse to cut off US funding to this corrupt international body just like the Trump Administration did.&#8221;

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