The Trump administration has taken its crusade against “gender ideology” to the United Nations, upending consensus at the world body on issues as varied as women’s rights, science and technology, global health, and toxic pollution.

The U.S. delegates stubbornly bullying the U.N. over “self-assessed gender identity” include Spencer Chretien, the former associate director of the Heritage Foundation and a co-writer of the foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint for Trump’s second presidential term.

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In at least six speeches before the U.N., Trump administration officials have denounced so-called “gender ideology” or reinforced the administration’s support for language that “recognizes women are biologically female and men are biologically male,” ProPublica reports.

Upon his first day after returning to the White House, Trump issued his “gender ideology” executive order, which claims there are only two “immutable” sexes, male and female. The order denies the existence of trans, nonbinary, and intersex people, a stance at odds with reality and consensus at the world body.

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In June, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk of Austria, criticized American government officials for their statements “vilifying transgender and non-binary people.”

The U.S. is sending the world “a clear message,” said Ash Lazarus Orr with the nonprofit Advocates for Trans Equality, “that the identities and rights of trans, nonbinary, and intersex people are negotiable.”

Examples of the administration’s “gender ideology” proselytizing include a June meeting on chemical pollution, when the U.S. delegate disputed inclusion of the word “gender” in a document addressing “the protection of human health and the environment.”

At a session of the Commission on the Status of Women in March, the U.S. delegate disapproved of a declaration supporting “the empowerment of all women and girls” that mentioned the word “gender.” The delegate said the document included “lapses in using clear and accurate language that recognizes women are biologically female and men are biologically male.

During that summit, the U.S. co-sponsored an event with the Center for Family and Human Rights. The center’s stated mission is the “preservation of international law by discrediting socially radical policies at the United Nations and other international institutions.”

In April, the U.S. criticized a draft resolution on global health during a meeting of the U.N. Commission on Population and Development, calling it a form of “soft global governance” and reiterating the administration’s “unequivocal rejection of gender ideology extremism.”

The delegate who raised this objection was Spencer Chretien, the former Heritage Foundation staffer. Chretien also renewed U.S. membership in the Geneva Consensus Declaration, an anti-abortion document signed by countries including Russia, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, and South Sudan — and the U.S. during Trump’s first term.

But there is pushback in the world body against the current U.S. administration’s gender crusade.

During a July forum about a document on sustainable development, the U.S. delegate asked for a vote on several paragraphs about gender and reproductive health, calling the declaration part of a radical agenda.

The final vote on retaining those paragraphs was 141 to 2, with only the U.S. and Ethiopia voting no.

After the vote, the chamber broke into thunderous applause.

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