Trump Admin Blocks Use Of Tax Funds For School Indoctrination

The Trump administration took another bold step to protect parental rights and the innocence of children by issuing a policy affirming that funds from a multi-million dollar federal sexual education program cannot be used to promote radical gender ideology.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a statement Wednesday clarifying that the mission of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP) is to provide “medically accurate and age-appropriate programming” aimed at reducing teen pregnancy , adding that program funds “may not be used to indoctrinate America’s children with radical ideologies or other inappropriate material.” Grant recipients who do not comply with the outlined use of TPPP funds and create off-topic program materials, such as content that encourages anal and oral sex, masturbation, sexually themed roleplay, foreplay techniques and gender ideology, will not be funded, according to an HHS document.

“HHS is committed to ensuring a flourishing and healthy American youth, including through reducing teen pregnancy,” said Dr. Dorothy Fink, acting assistant secretary for health in a press release. “Prioritizing parental involvement in the education of children on the most sensitive topics creates a healthy environment for children to engage with medically accurate and age-appropriate material.”

The HHS statement also noted program funds cannot be used to “promote anti-American ideologies such as discriminatory equity ideology,” and that grant recipients should provide parents, in accordance with the recent Supreme Court ruling giving parents the right to opt out LGBT school lessons, advanced notice and the ability to opt out of programming that might “burden their religious exercise.”