Jennifer Bilek

Feb 18, 20225 min

The ACLU Gets Fat on Pharma and Tech Funding/ Part I

Updated: Jul 23, 2023

A once legal bastion in high regard on both sides of the political spectrum, with a commitment to defending Americans’ constitutional rights, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has become a weapon of the state, a defender of the gender industry fronting for the techno-medical complex (TMC). They uphold that human sexual dimorphism is not real and are raking in funding from America’s elites to defend this lie.

A current legal case being fought by the ACLU against the state of Arkansas, utilizes a $15-million endowment from Jon Stryker, heir to the Stryker Corporation medical fortune worth $14.7 billion, and his husband, Slobodan Randjelović. The gift is to assist in overturning a state ban that refuses to allow for drug and surgical experimentation on children’s sex.

The gift from Stryker and Randjelović is one of several large endowments from philanthropic elites, deeply invested in the TMC and invested in institutionalizing gender ideology.

In a press release in January, the ACLU announced its historic docket of Supreme Court cases will be named after Joan and Irwin Jacobs, two longtime ACLU supporters whose estimated worth in 2017 was $1.23 billion. The Supreme Court Docket naming is made possible through the Jacobses’ landmark $20 million gifts to the ACLU Foundation’s Bill of Rights endowment fund — the largest endowment gift in the ACLU’s history.

In 1968 alongside Leonard Kleinrock and Andrew Viterbi, Irwin Jacobs co-founded Linkabit Corporation, a San Diego-based technology company. They later co-founded Qualcomm, a multinational visionary telecommunication giant with over 30,000 employees in all corners of the globe, as well as one of today’s innovation leaders. Jacobs has donated several hundreds of millions of dollars to several educational institutions, organizations and schools focused on the fields of engineering, computer science, and communications.

Together the Jacobs' have funded the Center on Global Transformation, providing a new framework for exploration and analysis shaping the forces of economic change in the world, at the University of California San Diego, where they also have an engineering school in their name. They donated $110 million to the engineering program in 2003 with departments in nanoengineering, bioengineering, and AI. They provided a $75 million lead gift for a new facility at UCSD Health Center in 2010; with a challenge gift, that brought their contributions to a total of $100 million. The center was named for them and helped UCSD Health become a leader listed in the Human Rights Campaign Healthcare Equality Index in 2018.

In December 2021, UCSD Medical School hosted a “transgender healthcare” symposium to provide a comprehensive review of different aspects of “gender-affirming medical care.” This course featured sessions on “gender-sensitive cultural awareness,” behavioral health care, primary care, and “medical and surgical gender-affirming interventions.”

Upon completion of the symposium, it was anticipated that participants would be able to:

*Identify appropriate terminology and pronouns for "gender identity" and sexual orientation including gender-neutral pronouns.

*Summarize "gender affirmation" surgeries and appropriate referrals.

*Discuss "gender-affirming" surgeries available at UC San Diego Health.

*Discuss options for fertility preservation in "transgender and non-binary" individuals.

*Identify key mental health issues in the "transgender/non-binary" community.

*Describe the requirements needed for mental health providers to provide support for "gender-affirming" surgeries.

*Describe healthcare issues related to "transgender and non-binary" adolescents and young adults.

*Identify how to improve the patient experience for "transgender/non-binary" patients for better overall healthcare outcomes.

The Jacobs’ also donated $133 million to create the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, a global technology Institute with a presence on three continents, including China. The institute hosted a “transgender symposium during the 17th Annual Seminar on Patient-Physician Relations. Cornell University, with which Technion is partnered, has published a "Transgender" Guide To "Transitioning" and "Gender Affirmation" in the Workplace.

The Jaocbs’ provided the most significant gift ever to be bestowed on the Salk Institute, for $100 million, which would help raise an additional $200 million for Salk. The Salk Institute is embracing the artificial intelligence revolution and inventing new ways to investigate life.

Joan and Irwin Jacobs also spent millions of dollars getting their granddaughter elected to congress in 2020, who is now stumping for the gender industry, which is the techno-medical complex. Congresswoman Sara Jacobs represented California’s 53rd Congressional District and outperformed her opponent with more significant experience. The figures on Jacobs' three years of tax returns, when they finally emerged before the election, also undoubtedly played a role in her outpacing Georgette Gomez, her rival and then the San Diego City Council president. Gomez paid nearly $9,000 in taxes on $82,000 income in 2019, while Jacobs’ 2019 taxes were reported at $1.46 million on an income of $7.19 million.

Settling right into her role as a shill for the techno-medical complex, Jacobs rolled out her pitch for LGBTQ Inc., using the now tired and worn tactic of sewing a made-up ideology of disembodiment to the LGB human rights movement, and hitting all the high notes and bogus statistics to cultivate sympathy, including suicide and bullying, a need for training teachers about the bullying of gender non-conforming children, homelessness, etc. Jacobs went the extra mile though and stated she had both a “transgender” and gender non-conforming sibling. Even though the term "transgender" only entered the cultural lexicon two minutes ago and no one can tell us what this word means, this didn’t stop Jacobs from rolling right along as if this ideology was already engraved in stone and the term completely understood and agreed upon.

Finishing strong in her pitch, Jacobs manipulated her audience by sharing her “firsthand experience with the hurt and pain that can be caused by misgendering someone, and how easy it is to be an ally by taking the extra time to normalize sharing your pronouns.” She explained this is why she supports ensuring that it is easy to access federal identity documents with the pronouns one identifies with and why she is using her platform to educate people about correct pronoun usage. In December 2021, she gave an impassioned plea against an epidemic of violence being experienced by “transgender people,” on the House floor. Though there is absolutely no coherent explanation of what this term means, Jacobs, like many politicians before her, performed what seemed like a faux soliloquy to drive her agenda of the political and social normalizing of human disembodiment.

I am experiencing déjà vu, having written about two other billionaire families, the Pritzkers and Rothblatts, with a member of their family claiming to be the opposite sex and their heavy investments in biotech, pharma, and AI.

While the gender industry is framed as human rights, what we see manifesting behind the scenes, over and over, with the most significant funders and drivers are enormous investments in technology, pharma, and AI. Rothblatt is also well invested in transhumanism, and has created a robot of his wife and a technological religion that is driving the disassociation of humans from their biology, which is now supported by the ACLU.

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