Any culture, sub-culture, society or whatever, which forces people to lie in order to survive, has weak underpinnings - is, in fact based on lies.

A dear friend of mine had to lie in the late '30s when she pretended to be male in order to get her "electrical engineer" paper. Then she had to pretend to be male in order to get a job. She loved her work but finally gave up the lie for fear of being found out and beaten to a pulp.

I am sure there are still places in these United States where any male (particularly) who is gay has to pretend/LIE in order to survive. A government agency where he is a servant of the people must not be one of those places. Else we, the people, are condoning the lies perpetuated by our government. That government is us. We are liars when we allow the lies of this government and in as much as we do not insist on changes in this policy.