There is growing concern that President Donald Trump’s new head of the Secret Service is not implementing his plan to eliminate DEI from the agency expeditiously.
Susan Crabtree, a reporter for RealClearPolitics, detailed the situation in a post on X in which she described a current transgender special agent who wants special rules.
“Agents in the Secret Service are growing increasingly alarmed that new USSS Director Sean Curran is not immediately halting the Biden Administration’s DEI hiring and training priorities despite Pres. Trump’s executive order mandating that all executive agencies do so,” the reporter said on the X platform.
“There’s a trans special agent trainee who gendered female at birth but transitioned to a male but wants to continue using female PT standards while being addressed as a man and using the men’s bathrooms, according to several Secret Service sources. The recruit was going through training at the Secret Service’s Rowley Training Center as of late January, after Trump officially named Curran as the new director,” Crabtree said.
Crabtree said that sources informed her the recruit was being accommodated on their preferred use of pronouns, causing resentment among male agents.
“I provide this new information partly in response to some feedback I’ve received about the female special agent trainee who shot herself in the thigh Monday and had to be airlifted to a Baltimore hospital,” Crabtree said.
“I’ve since learned that the woman trainee who shot herself on Monday during a nighttime training exercise at the Secret Service’s Rowley Training Center previously served as a Uniformed Division officer (guarding the White House) so did have regular experience with weapons handling and no prior incidents,” she said.
“I’m told by one source that she was known as smart and a respected UD officer and is back in training despite the self-inflicted wound. The agent is not facing anything life-threatening from the incident, although I’m told the doctors left the bullet in her thigh because it would cause more damage to remove it. She does happen to be the daughter of the Secret Service (ombudsman,) so she is known as a ‘legacy hire,’” she said.
Other federal agencies, however, are following Trump’s order to the letter.
The country’s intelligence agencies, now overseen by the new Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, have quickly adopted Trump’s directive to eliminate DEI programs.
On his first day back in the White House, the president signed an executive order to eliminate DEI programs in the federal government, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and National Security Agency (NSA) have been adapting accordingly.
“CIA is complying with the Executive Order,” a spokesperson said to The Daily Caller.
“We are laser-focused on our foreign intelligence mission. We are complying with the EO and [Office of Personnel Management] Implementing Guidance. CIA sent out a notice on 31 January stating that Agency Resource Groups (ARGs), Directorate Resource Groups (DRGs), and Workforce Partner Groups have been disbanded,” they said.
However, in 2019, the CIA bragged on X, “We’re proud to be featured as one of @Glassdoor’s picks for ‘Amazing Companies That Champion #LGBTQ Equality.’
The Caller said that in addition to groups for LGBTQ officers, the agency also had groups for African American and Asian American staffers as well.
“The CIA’s now deleted the Diversity and Inclusion page previously linked to a 2024 to 2027 CIA Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Strategy, which the Caller learned is no longer in effect. The strategy does not appear on the agency’s site,” The Caller reported.
The FBI has also said it is complying with the executive order and no longer has diversity listed as a core principle.
“The FBI is fully complying with the Executive Order regarding DEI programs and implementation guidance provided by the Office of Personnel Management,” a bureau representative said to The Caller.