Jessica Stern, special envoy for LGBTQ rights under Biden, says Trump administration will set back clock decades

In 2021, President Joe Biden appointed Jessica Stern as the US special envoy to advance the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons. She left office last month with the changing of the guard at the White House. In her first interview since leaving the State Department, Stern talks with The World’s Bianca Hillier about what she accomplished in the past four years — and the far-reaching impact the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQ policies are likely to have, at home and abroad.