The Department of Health and Human Services is devoting nearly $700,000 in taxpayer funds to pregnancy prevention programs for girls who say they are boys, arguing that “heteronormative” sex education does not apply to girls. I subsidized it.
HHS contributed exactly $698,736. Center for Innovative Public Health Researcha nonprofit organization that aims to create a “comprehensive teen pregnancy program for transgender boys.”
of GrantThe program, which began in September 2023 and is scheduled to end at the end of June 2027, will support #TranscendentHealth, “transgender youth who were assigned female at birth (afab) and identify as transgender”. An LGB+-inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for boys (e.g., as non-binary or transgender boys), but not as girls. ”
The program's justification is that typical sex education is “neither salient nor applicable” to “gender-diverse youth.” The document describes typical sex education as “cisgender” and “heteronormative.”
The group went on to argue that young girls who identify as boys “may be less likely” to use condoms when having sex with “someone with a penis”.
“Health inequalities must be addressed,” the document says.
This grant will help fund the aa program calledgirls 2 girls” is a “text message-based sexual health program designed for cisgender sexual minority girls ages 14-18.”
The Center for Innovative Public Health Research stated that “sexual minority girls are more likely to become pregnant during adolescence than heterosexual girls.”
The organization collects ongoing feedback from gender-confused young girls and conducts focus groups to “give a voice to the circumstances that influence the sexual decisions of afab's trans-identifying youth.” was planning to carry out.
Next, the program will create a “content advisory team” to develop learning tools for the identified groups.
by daily wirethe Center for Innovative Public Health Research also received a total of $1.4 million in taxpayer funding from HHS;HIV prevention program For transgender girls. ”
The document promises to harness the “power of technology” to develop programs and estimates that one in five “transgender girls” (and men) may be HIV positive. .
“The message is gender-affirming” and “reduces internalized transphobia,” the grant description adds.
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