Certainly, the Founding Fathers never contemplated that the federal government would create huge bureaucracies to fund enormous social programs around the nation and the world. The entire Health and Human Services department would seem to be one such gigantic unconstitutional bureaucracy, but within it are several lesser, though still huge, unconstitutional organizations. Among these is the Administration for Children and Families.
This branch of the federal government has a budget of over $70 billion from which it funds over 60 programs. As a breakdown of where all this money looted from taxpayers goes, 9 percent went to "refugee & entrant assistance," -- i.e., support for immigration -- while 24 percent was devoted to "temporary assistance for needy families."
Some proportion of the money has been sent to states for sex education materials, another program that certainly would have boggled the minds of all of the Founding Fathers. In recent years, this money has supported the transgender movement, funding programs that insisted on injecting woke ideology and terminology into the sex education classroom.
The Trump administration is now warning 40 states and 6 territories to remove that element from their programs as the law authorizing the grants to states for sex education from the ACF does not indicate that the funds appropriated for the grants should be used for transgender propaganda.
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through its Administration for Children and Families (ACF) demanded that 46 states and territories remove all references to gender ideology in their federally-funded Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) educational materials within 60 days," said a press release from HHS. "This action reflects the Trump Administration’s ongoing commitment to protecting children from attempts to indoctrinate them with delusional ideology."
Previously, the ACF ended the PREP grant to California after officials there "failed to meet its demand to remove gender ideology from its educational materials," HHS said.
The action was about brining accountability to the program, according to ACF Acting Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison.
“Accountability is coming,” Gradison said. “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.”
The ACF sent letters identifying offending passages in curricular materials to each state. For example, the agency flagged the following as an example to be removed from Wisconsin's PREP materials:
2. Let’s move on to gender identity. While assigned sex is based on the body parts
the doctor sees at birth, gender identity has nothing to do with body parts.
o Gender identity is a deep feeling people have about whether they are a
guy, a girl, both, neither, or somewhere in between.
o People often know their gender identity when they are very little, before
they start kindergarten, although everyone is different and some people
will know when they are younger or older.
o Cisgender is when a person's gender identity is the same as their assigned
sex. For example, a doctor says, ‘It’s a girl!’ at a baby's birth, and that
child later feels ‘Yes, I am a girl.’
o Transgender is when a person’s gender identity is not the same as their
assigned sex. For example, a doctor says, ‘It’s a girl!’ at a baby's birth, and
that child later feels ‘No, I’m not a girl.’ People may also identify as
nonbinary, genderqueer, or some other gender identity.
So how is gender identity different than assigned sex? Correct, gender identity
is based on a deep feeling that a person has about themselves.”
The Trump administration's move to reduce and remove leftist propaganda from curricular materials funded by taxpayers is a good start. Transgender ideology is supported only by a portion of the American public and it is an affront to freedom and decency to force taxpayers to support an agenda to which they are personally opposed, especially when it comes to children in the classroom.
The best step, however, would be to end unconstitutional programs altogether -- and that means shutting down unconstitutional federal departments like ACF and the entire HHS apparatus.
