Exclusive: Los Angeles Pushes Radical Gender Ideology On City Employees In Defiance Of Trump’s Executive Order
As Los Angeles is struggling to recover from deadly wildfires, the city is pushing radical gender ideology on its employees, The Federalist has learned.
The City of Los Angeles requires its workers — including in the Los Angeles Fire Department — to complete annual “Workplace Harassment and Abusive Conduct” training, according to a whistleblower who chose to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation. He provided screenshots to The Federalist showing internal training, which orders employees to use “preferred pronouns,” treats “gender identity” as a protected class, and enables men who think they are women to use the women’s restroom.
This comes despite President Donald Trump’s executive order “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government.” While executive orders dictate the operations of federal and not local agencies, the order directs federal authorities to enforce long-standing civil rights and privacy protections — which Los Angeles is apparently violating.
Advancing Gender Ideology
The city’s training included a long list of LGBT terms. It defined “gender expression” as the “external appearance of one’s gender identity,” and “deadnaming” as using “the name that a transgender or gender-expansive individual used at a different time.” It said an “ally” is someone “actively supportive of LGBTQ+ people.”
The document defined myriad gender identities including “allosexual” — someone “who experiences sexual attraction of any kind … not limited by their sexual orientation”; “gender-expansive” — someone who has “a wider, more flexible range of gender identity”; “gender-fluid” — someone “who does not identify with a single fixed gender or has a fluid or unfixed gender identity”; “genderqueer” — those who “see themselves as being both male and female, neither male nor female or as falling completely outside these categories.”
It also defined “transpawn” (someone “with one or more transgender or non-binary parent or caregiver”) and “two spirit” — allegedly used in “some American Indian and Alaska Native communities” for someone “who identifies as having both a male and a female essence or spirit.”
The city’s training also made employees sit through examples of inappropriate behavior that crossed into explicit sexual descriptions.
“He’s the stripper I hired for my sister’s bachelorette party. We posted it on YouTube,” one cartoon employee says to another. “Did he take his thong off?” she responded. “Yep! Here’s his full monty…”
Screenshots from Los Angeles citywide training. Courtesy of anonymous whistleblower
Another example featured an employee asking another to meet for a threesome. “Hey Anna, since you are obviously down for a threesome, let’s hook up tonight,” the cartoon character says.
The training suggests employees should use “gender-inclusive phrases” like “folks,” “squad,” and “yinz.” It told staff to “use preferred pronouns” and discussed “microaggressions” — which it said are “covert” and “make LGBT+ co-workers feel like they don’t belong.”
Screenshots of training. Courtesy of anonymous whistleblower
It claimed “federal laws” demand LGBT employees must “[b]e called by chosen name and proper pronouns” and allowed to “transition at work” and “use restrooms and/or locker rooms consistent with gender identity.”
But Trump’s executive order, signed on Jan. 20, clarified the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not require “gender identity-based access to single-sex spaces.” It directed the attorney general to “immediately issue guidance to agencies to correct the misapplication” of the law, and to “assist agencies in protecting sex-based distinctions.”
“The Attorney General shall issue guidance to ensure the freedom to express the binary nature of sex and the right to single-sex spaces in workplaces and federally funded entities covered by the Civil Rights Act,” the order reads. It says the AG and other agency heads with “enforcement responsibilities” under the law will “prioritize investigations and litigation to enforce the rights and freedoms identified.”
The order also said “federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology” and “each agency shall assess grant conditions and grantee preferences and ensure grant funds do not promote gender ideology.” Just before this order, the Environmental Protection Agency obligated more than $411.7 million to the City of Los Angeles, starting Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31, 2028 — though apparently, payments have not yet been made.
Enforcing DEI Compliance
The training directs workers to click a button and agree with the “employer’s policy.” “I have read and understand my employer’s harassment policy and know who to contact with questions, for guidance, and to file a complaint,” the screen reads.
Screenshots of the training. Courtesy of anonymous whistleblower
The City of Los Angeles Workplace Equity Policy labels “Gender, Gender Expression and/or Gender Identity” as “Protected Categories.” It says harassment “may include, but is not limited to” “[o]ffensive or unwelcome conduct or comments targeted at one or more employees because of their Protected Category, even if the content is not about their Protected Category.” It also said that “comments or gestures about a person’s physical appearance” that are “gender-related” qualify as harassment.
Los Angeles enacted the policy in 2022 to advance “equity” and address “all types of harassment and discrimination.”
“Since 2018, the City has taken various steps to increase equity in our workplaces,” then-Mayor Eric Garcetti wrote at the time. “In 2020, we confronted a legacy of racial injustice and took a substantive step to advance racial equity across City government.”
In the tumultuous wake of Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd in 2020, Garcetti signed the “Racial Equity in City Government” executive directive — leveraging critical race theory to transform the city’s institutions.
“Our city is in pain, and we are hungry for change. The demonstrations for racial justice in recent weeks have not exposed something new — they’ve laid bare the urgent and overdue demand to end structural racism,” Garcetti wrote.
Garcetti denounced the California Civil Rights Initiative of 1996 (which banned racial discrimination in admissions), saying “progress in racial equity in California was undermined.” He adopted the textbook Marxist playbook, leveraging race and class in an intersectional scheme while citing “the cumulative impact” of “structural racism” as proof of oppression.
In 2022, Garcetti said the Workplace Equity Policy was the “next step along the path towards more equitable City workplaces.”
In addition to implementing a new policy, Garcetti’s directive gave existing positions names like “Workplace Equity Officer” and “LGBTQ+ Support Officer” and created an “Equity Review Panel” and new “Equity Complaint” procedures.
The city of Los Angeles has been struggling to pay its employees properly and keep unexpired medicine in its ambulances, as The Federalist previously reported. Meanwhile, officials like Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley have been pushing “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). As the leaked citywide training shows, this is not an isolated incident — but widespread institutional capture.
Logan Washburn is a staff writer covering election integrity. He is a spring 2025 fellow of The College Fix. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo’s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is from Central Oregon but now lives in rural Michigan.
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