- President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has asked the State Department to list its workers who focus on gender equality and ending violence against women, in what's being seen as an echo of an earlier request for the Energy Department to list employees who work on climate change.
In a brief email that was sent Wednesday morning, the Trump team asked the State Department's bureaus and offices to list any programs or activities that "promote gender equality, such as ending gender-based violence, promoting women's participation in economic and political spheres, entrepreneurship, etc."
Frankly, every time I hear about government programs on "ending violence against women" I become more and more fine with the idea of them ending. The focus on "against women" is undue and unnecessary. The reasons these programs exist is because it's a feel good bullshit thing you tack onto a bill to get everyone to support it else they "hate women". It should be "government programs against domestic violence", and by all means, it should exist strongly in that form, but as "violence against women" I'll cheer as it burns.