'A seismic change': Trump wants LGBTQ+ material axed from sex ed

Jessica_Rose · July 16, 2025, 05:07:00 AM

'A seismic change': Trump wants LGBTQ+ material axed from sex ed

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-seismic-change-trump-wants-lgbtq-material-axed-from-sex-ed/ar-AA1IEMY7?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=5ab056c04fff40e680373dca8e631354&ei=137

Story by Erin Mansfield (15 July 2025)

The Trump administration is telling organizations working to prevent teen pregnancy that they must stop teaching content that doesn't align with the administration's views on transgender people and parental rights or they'll risk losing their federal funding.

Seventy-three organizations – including local health departments, community groups and universities – receive a portion of the $101 million budget for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program each year. The groups serve more than 300,000 youth, mostly in school settings.

The Department of Health and Human Services policy, announced in a July 1 memo to grantees, bans grant-funded programs from teaching about sex that is not heterosexual vaginal intercourse. It also bans "the eroticization of birth control methods" and bans any content on creating more pleasurable sexual experiences.

The policy goes on to prohibit any discussion of youth experiencing gender dysphoria or expressing transgender identities.

"The statute does not require, support, or authorize teaching minors about (ideological) content, including the radical ideological claim that boys can identify as girls and vice versa," the memo to grant recipients says. "Programs must be aimed at reducing teen pregnancy, not instructing in such ideological content."

Lori Dee · July 16, 2025, 09:11:07 AM

I would like to see a study of just how many LGBTQ+ sexual relationships resulted in teen pregnancy throughout history.

Is the number greater than zero?

'A seismic change': Trump wants LGBTQ+ material axed from sex ed

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Lori Dee