Commentary
Taxpayer dollars are being used to fund agencies that are grooming schoolchildren. As a public school teacher and former school board member in Orange County, California, I have discovered things about government grants through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of Adolescent and School Health that I never would have believed unless I had seen them with my own eyes.
One organization that HHS
funds is Healthy Teen Network (HTN), which is used by many school districts as a resource for sexual health.
Bob Reeg, a program development and public policy consultant with HTN who has advocated for comprehensive sex education for children and youth before Congress and the executive branch, wrote an
article in May 2020 titled “What Pandemics Can Teach Us About Food and Eating, and Sexual Activity, Too.”
In the article, Reeg compares a person’s need for food to a person’s need for sex, saying both are vital for survival. He says that just like everyone has the right to eat, everyone has the right to sexual activity. Reeg seems to suggest that age is irrelevant, and according to his logic of comparison, sexual abstinence would be equal to death by starvation.
During the COVID-19 lockdown, HTN put out the article “
5 Tips for Your Sexual Health During Covid-19,” which provided a link giving kids 54 ideas on how to “sext.” HTN also
says porn consumption serves an important positive space for sexual exploration, especially for youth of diverse sexual identities, and thus schools should (based on research, of course) teach youth to read and unpack porn using media literacy skills. Coincidentally, sharing sexually explicit material is a typical
grooming behavior.
California Secretary of State
Shirley Weber, who authored the state’s new sex education requirements (
AB 329) that include teaching ever-evolving gender identities and expansive sexual orientations in grades 7–12, was
granted Healthy Teen Network’s Spirit of Service Award in 2018.
Governing agencies (CDC) also
fund the organization Advocates for Youth (AFY), which co-authored the National Sex Education Standards (
pdf) that many school districts use nationwide. In AFY’s 2018 version (
pdf), on the topic of sexual consent, it states that “consent is a fundamental right for people of all ages” (p. 7, [K-12]). Its 2020 version states that schools are to affirm expansive and fluid sexual identities (p. 63).
YMSM—young men (ages 13–19) who have sex with men (18 and older)—is one of those identities, according to AFY. The CDC has
endorsed a project targeting YMSM with a school-centered approach to increase HIV and sexually transmitted disease testing and treatment among boys who have sex with adult men, to address “health disparities.”
AFY takes an
all-inclusive approach to sexual identities, which leaves the door wide open to pedophilia. It says: “Sexual orientations include, but are not limited to: asexual, bisexual, gay, heterosexual, lesbian, pansexual, [and] queer (
p. 63, 65). Queer is an umbrella term for nonconforming fluid identities.”
The CDC says kids can make up their own genders. The term “
nonbinary,” which is on many school registration forms, is
defined, in part, by the CDC as “gender creative,” meaning students can create their own gender(s).
If you’re wondering how this relates to pedophilia, allow me to introduce you to the founder of “gender identity”:
John William Money.
His philosophy was that nurture overrode biology, thus gender was neutral and could be determined by environment and guided exploration. According to many documented patient testimonials in John Colapinto’s
book “As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl,” Money’s therapeutic practice was to facilitate children’s gender exploration by showing them pornography as young as age 6, have them examine their genitalia, and practice various sexual positions with enforced play of copulation.
Similarly, the sex-ed standards from AFY also promote sexual exploration in order to know one’s gender identity. It states that students decide their identities through “experiential learning cycles” in which they learn by doing (
p.58). These “lived experiences,” or collection of events, become the student’s firsthand validation of their identities (
p. 61).
The difference between Money’s theory and AFY’s standards is that Money limited gender identity to male or female, whereas today, gender identity has unlimited possibilities.
Money, who had a doctorate in psychology from Harvard, publicly endorsed pedophilia. In an April 1980 issue of
Time magazine, he is quoted as saying, “A childhood sexual experience, such as being the partner of a relative or of an older person, need not necessarily affect the child adversely.”
In an interview with the Dutch journal Paidika cited in Colapinto’s book, Money says, “If I were to see the case of a boy aged 10 or 12 who’s intensely attracted toward a man in his 20s or 30s, and the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way.”
Although
Money’s famous twins study—in which one identical male twin was raised as a girl and the other as a boy—was a
complete failure, he won a prestigious award in 2002 from the German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research and was funded for 35 years by U.S. taxpayer dollars through the National Institutes of Health, according to Colapinto.
Money also pioneered and established the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic for transsexual surgeries. Most importantly and alarmingly, the CDC has embraced Money’s ideology of gender identity, and it’s now being implemented in our schools, medical professions, sports, and laws.
As a society, we have trusted governing agencies and their endorsed “scientific pioneers” to provide expert health advice. Over time, we have viewed the CDC as an objective source of information with humanity’s best interest in mind. However, their funding of agencies that sexualize children and their promotion of the extreme ideology of made-up, infinite genders is a betrayal to Americans.
As the French philosopher Voltaire warned, “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” It’s time to reevaluate our so-called experts before atrocities become the norm.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
