"In an August 2018 New Yorker article,  Elizabeth Kolbert asks, 'Are today’s donor classes solving problems or creating  new ones?' 
            Kolbert describes a form of charity that aims to not just help  people but to improve them.  This 'improvement' aligns with the giver’s particular vision of what  constitutes improvement, of course. And the people who need to be improved are  treated as children—for whom the donor, naturally, gets to decide what is best. 
            Kolbert describes how this form of giving becomes exploitation. We might  add: not just exploitation, but elite-driven, highly self-interested social  engineering. We see these characteristics on brilliant display in the  philanthropy behind the modern LGBT movement.  
            The gay-rights movements and organizations that emerged during America’s sexual  revolution in the 1960s bear little resemblance to the behemoth LGBT NGO  juggernauts operating today. 
            What started out as grassroots support for the  legal and social acceptance of same-sex relations has turned into an effort at  full-blown social transformation, with the addition of a fetish of adult men,  known as transsexualism, to the LGB human-rights rainbow banner. 
            Along with the  rebranding of transsexualism as transgenderism, this movement has also  successfully colonized and utilized disorders of sexual development, otherwise  known as intersex conditions to drive its agenda. We have come a long way from  Stonewall. 
            Perhaps the most insidious idea to be advanced under the LGBT banner today  is the amorphous concept of 'gender identity.' Gender identity refers to the  way people see themselves with respect to socially constructed sex-role  stereotypes. But is not just a descriptive term;  it is also prescriptive—one  has the right, according to advocates, to force others to recognize one’s  chosen identity. 
            And one has the right to change one’s body medically so that  it better maps on to one’s gender identity. Given that the pharmaceutical lobby  is the largest in Congress, and given that some of the most important  philanthropists behind the modern LGBT movement have close ties to Big Pharma,  this medical component is important to note. 
            'Gender  identity' and 'transgender' ideology emerged on the Western cultural landscape  not more than a decade ago, but they have spread across the globe with the  speed and ferocity of the SARS COVID pandemic—and they have created nearly as  much havoc. 
            Yet the massive concomitant changes we have already seen in  language, law, medical and crime statistics, women’s safety zones, sports,  accomplishments and educational  opportunities, the medicalization of  healthy children’s bodies, and K–12 curricula have not been driven by  grassroots enthusiasm. Quite the contrary. 
            They  have been driven by the philanthropic funding provided by billionaires who are  themselves invested in this radical ideology’s greatest beneficiaries: Big  Pharma. Many of the most important philanthropists behind the transgender and  gender-identity movements stand to make huge profits from body dissociation and  the commoditization of human sex into medical identities. 
            Take Martine  Rothblatt, a self-described transsexual and  transhumanist who was the first individual to create a legal document  supporting the idea that feelings of dissociation from our sexed bodies is  normal. 
            This legal document, later to become the International Gender Bill of Rights,  legally normalizes body dissociation. Rothblatt later went on to become the top  earning CEO in the biopharmaceutical industry, using his money and influence to  promote the ideology and normalization of transgenderism. He believes that  sexual dimorphism is morally equivalent to South African apartheid and must be  dismantled.
            Jennifer Pritzker, along with his family, one of the wealthiest in  the United States, has poured huge sums of money into American institutions in  order to advance the concept of body dissociation under the euphemism of  'gender identity.' The Pritzker family has  made vast investments in the medical  industrial complex. 
            In 2000, another billionaire, Jon Stryker, heir to a  multi-billion-dollar medical corporation, created another mammoth LGBT NGO, the  Arcus Foundation. Stryker created such a global goliath of philanthropic  funding with the stocks from his medical corporation that he had to create  another organization to keep track of it all. 
            In 2006 Arcus funded the creation  of MAP, or Movement Advancement  Project, to track the complex system of advocacy and funding that had already  developed as a way of insinuating gender identity and transgender ideology into  the culture.
            Arcus deploys millions of philanthropic dollars each year to filter  gender identity and transgender ideology into American law through their  training of leaders in political activism, political leadership, transgender  law, religious liberty, education, and civil rights. 
            Some of its favored  organizations include the Victory Fund, the Center for American Progress,  the ACLU the Council for Global Equality,  the Transgender Law Center, Trans Justice Funding Project, OutRight Action International, Human Rights Watch, the  United Nations, Amnesty International, and GLSEN.
            In  fact, Arcus is recorded to have given more than  $58.4 million to programs and  organizations doing LGBT-related work between 2007 and 2010  alone (it is  far more than that now), making it the largest LGBT funder in the world. Jon  Stryker gave over $30 million to the foundation himself in  that period, through his stock in Stryker Medical Corporation.
            Translation: 
            
              A medical corporation with a vested interest in encouraging  people to identify as transgender is directly funneling money and assets to its  philanthropic foundation so that the foundation will do that encouraging on its  behalf, thereby bringing more money and more clients (for life) to that  corporation.
            
            Arcus has funneled millions into other philanthropy organizations, such as Tides, Proteus and Borealis. There is no way to track  whether these organizations are using Arcus money for the purpose of  normalizing transgenderism, but one might surmise that the cause so dear to  Arcus’s heart is not entirely ignored.
            Along with the Pritzker family, Arcus has sent hundreds of thousands of  dollars to colleges and universities, including Columbia, Yale, Vanderbilt, the University of Chicago, the University of Southern California,  the University of Washington, and  many others. 
            Arcus grants have gone to black coalitions in the U.S. and Africa,  Latino organizations, Native American organizations, youth and teen organizations,  the military, and Public Broadcasting Radio. 
            Millions have been given to  lesbian organizations, including in Africa, with the lion’s share going to Astrea Foundation for a special focus on  its trans fund. Arcus funds sports organizations such as Athlete Alley and Youth Can Play. 
            Hundreds of thousands have gone to Planned Parenthood. Arcus has  made a significant grant to Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a dubious character in the transgender  arena. 
            The foundation has funded prison projects and immigration organizations with  a focus on normalizing transgenderism in children.  Arcus funds religious organizations across the world.
            In 2015, together with the  Novo Foundation, a philanthropic NGO run by Peter Buffet (son of Warren, who  helped launch the project with a $90 million gift), Arcus earmarked $20 million for transgender causes specifically.  In 2018 Arcus funded the Council For Global Equality,  a coalition of 30 U.S. groups advocating for inclusion of LGBT issues in  foreign affairs and development policies.
            Whew. This is no small operation! And every Arcus grant is contingent upon  the recipient’s affirmation of “diversity and inclusion policies”—policies  that, of course, very much include the affirmation of gender-identity ideology  and transgenderism. 
            Many more philanthropic actors are working to prop up the transgender and  gender-identity movements, including Tim Gill and his Gill Foundation and  George Soros and his Open Society Foundation. 
            Like Martine Rothblatt, Jennifer  Pritzker, and Jon Stryker, Gill, who is heavily invested in artificial  intelligence, and Soros, who has broad investments in Big Pharma, stand to  benefit financially from the demand for altered bodies and brains that they  hope is the fruit of their philanthropic activity.
            It is striking that this conflict of interest has been so little  discussed. Even the American  Psychological Association (APA), the leading  scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United  States, with more than 118,000 members, is funded by Arcus philanthropy. In  2005 the APA created INET, to  help member psychological organizations improve the well-being of sexual  orientation and “gender diverse people.” 
            Prior to the addition of gender identity and the arrival of Arcus  money, the APA INET was solely focused on LGB issues. 
            In 2008  the APA created the Task Force On Gender Identity and Gender Variance, and in 2015  it developed guidelines to assist  psychologists in the provision of  culturally competent, developmentally appropriate, and trans-affirmative  psychological practice with 'transgender' and 'gender non-conforming' people.  Psychologists were 'encouraged' to modify their understanding of gender,  broadening the range of variation viewed as healthy and normative.
            Can democracy withstand such philanthropy-driven 'encouragement'? Can  there be genuine democracy when, via the taxpayer-subsidized fig leaf of  philanthropy, billionaires can so quickly and easily dismantle the reality of  biological sex by suborning charities, politicians, researchers, and  professional associations? 
            We are in the midst of finding out."
             
            
              Jennifer Bilek is an investigative journalist, artist, and concerned  citizen. She has been following the money behind the transgender agenda for six  years. She blogs at the 11th Hour.