Though reports emerged Tuesday that Trump administration officials will pursue the international decriminalization of homosexuality, details are scant and unanswered questions abound. What is their plan? Who is involved?

“We have no idea,” says Jeremy Kadden, Senior International Policy Advocate at the Human Rights Campaign. “Nobody asked us about this.”

NBC News first reported that the US Embassy in Berlin assembled a group of European LGBTQ+ activists at a strategy dinner on Tuesday to plan for the push. Nevertheless, the announcement seems to have caught many established experts in international LGBTQ+ rights off guard.

“We reached out to allies in Europe, our partners there,” Kadden said. “As far as we can tell, there’s nobody that we know that’s involved.”

That’s just one of the mysteries surrounding the news that the Trump administration is suddenly interested in the plight of LGBTQ+ people abroad, after working for two years to oppress that very community in the United States.

NBC reported that the push comes partly in response to the recent, reported hanging of a young, gay Iranian man found guilty under the country’s strict anti-homosexuality laws. It was spearheaded by Richard Grenell, the US Ambassador to Germany and the Trump administration’s highest-ranking openly gay official. Grenell, who recently spoke out against Iran’s execution of queer people in an op-ed for the German newspaper Bild, is currently thought to be under consideration to be named Ambassador to the UN.

The push is also likely an attempt to seek a point of agreement on Iran with European countries, who have thus far resisted the administration’s efforts to get them to leave the Iran nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions on the country.

For now, public knowledge of the decriminalization effort is limited to vague news reports that partners are “likely” to include the United Nations, the European Union, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and other European countries that support gay rights. A US embassy official in Berlin was unable to provide further information after saying that he would need to obtain approval for an interview.

Just last week, Grenell attempted to enforce tougher economic sanctions on Iran, part of an effort to undermine the 2015 nuclear deal. Grenell identified his tactics as a component of what he termed the “Trump Doctrine.”

Volker Beck, a German Party Green Party politician, told the Jerusalem Post that Iran is “a champion in the state murder of actual or perceived homosexuals … It would be desirable for the federal government to make Iran’s human rights violations more of an issue.”

Iran is said to have executed thousands of gay and lesbian citizens since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. But Iran is far from the only country where queer people face government-sponsored kidnapping and murder. In a 2017 report, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association identified 72 states around the world where laws criminalize same-sex activity.

Under the Obama administration, the United States was part of a complex international effort to combat criminalization. Secretary of State John Kerry appointed Special Envoy Randy Berry to promote LGBTQ+ and intersex rights abroad. Berry visited dozens of countries and worked with local organizations to improve human rights around the world; after Trump took office, the State Department confirmed that he would not continue that work.

“There were a number of ways that the White House used to draw people together,” Kadden says. “During Pride month they would have gatherings of LGBTQ+ people from around the world to talk about how the White House can do more. None of that is happening under the Trump administration.” Trump has consistently avoided any acknowledgement of Pride month since taking office.