The federal government will no longer be using U.S. taxpayer money to subsidize “transgender” brainwashing of children in government schools, according to health and education authorities. The change comes after years of the Biden and Obama administrations using federal funding to promote bizarre ideas and ideologies on “gender.”
In a letter sent to officials in almost all 50 states, the Trump administration demanded a removal of “gender ideology” and related indoctrination from sexual education programs in government schools. States and territories that refuse to comply within 60 days risk losing federal funding for some of their programs, officials warned.
One of the tools being wielded by the administration is grant funding for states’ so-called “Personal Responsibility Education Program” (PREP). The grants, which began in 2010 and go through the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, are used to fund “sex education.” LGBT extremism is often part of it.
Naturally, the move by U.S. officials is sparking outrage among Democrat politicians who insist on propagandizing and confusing the captive children in government schools. Quite a few state and local bureaucrats have openly declared that they prefer to lose federal funding rather than stop pushing “transgender” ideology on children.
The administration appears serious. “Accountability is coming,” said Acting Assistant U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Andrew Gradison. “Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas. The Trump Administration will ensure that PREP reflects the intent of Congress, not the priorities of the left.”
It is not an empty threat. Just last week, the administration ended California’s PREP grants worth millions of dollars after the state refused to remove “radical gender ideology” from its federally funded “education” on teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. U.S. officials did not hold back, lambasting state authorities for the horrors being pushed on children.
Blasting the “disturbing and egregious abuse of federal funds,” administration officials said California was misusing tax money to teach horrific ideas. These included curricula that “encourage kids to contemplate mutilating their genitals,” “altering their body … through hormone therapy,” “adding or removing breast tissue,” and “changing their name.”
According to the statement released by HHS about the scandal, California’s education authorities were ordering teachers in the state to “remind students that some men are born with female anatomy.” Of course, basic biology and common sense contradict that. Males are born with male anatomy, and females are born with female anatomy, science shows.
“California’s refusal to comply with federal law and remove egregious gender ideology from federally funded sex-ed materials is unacceptable,” said Gradison. “The Trump Administration will not allow taxpayer dollars to be used to indoctrinate children. Accountability is coming for every state that uses federal funds to teach children delusional gender ideology.”
California officials were outraged about the effort to stop federal subsidies for gender indoctrination. “If it’s a day ending in y, President Trump is attacking kids’ safety, health and access to education as part of his culture war,” a spokesman for California Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement quoted in media reports.
Letters sent to various states identify problematic provisions that must be removed for the federal funding to continue. In Michigan, for instance, federal authorities identified “pronoun” propaganda in a program called “Making Proud Choices” that violates a requirement for “medical accuracy” in all educational materials.
Editor’s Note: An Exposing National Spotlight
Numerous schools have come under scrutiny and lawsuits in recent years for deliberately keeping parents in the dark about lessons praising and encouraging children to adopt homosexual and transgender lifestyles. This has especially been the case with children of Christian parents, who the schools have labeled “intolerant,” claiming that the safety of students may be jeopardized by parental notification.
The Bible commands against defying God’s perfect design by dressing as the opposite gender. Deuteronomy 22:5 states that a “woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.” The same is the case with homosexuality, which, in both the Old and New Testaments, is condemned as going against God’s moral standards for sexuality (Leviticus 18:22, Jude 1:7, Romans 1:26-32, Genesis 2:24). God’s Word also addresses the seriousness of leading children into sin (Matthew 18:6).
As the national spotlight continues to expose inappropriate, sexually explicit, and anti-Christian content in schools, many parents have opted to remove their children entirely from public education. In 2023, homeschooling became the fastest-growing form of education. According to Pew Research, that same year, 75% of American homeschooling parents stated that wanting to provide their own “moral instruction” to their children was a key reason for stepping away from government schools.
