(The Lion) — A public health research organization is still being funded by American taxpayers to the tune of $1.3 million for a study seeking to modify a teen pregnancy prevention program for girls who believe they are boys.
The Center for Innovative Public Health Research (CiPHR) is receiving taxpayer funds for a study that will serve to create Transcendent Health – a sex education teen pregnancy prevention program for a group they call “transgender boys – youth who are assigned female at birth (AFAB) and identify as transgender (e.g., as non-binary or as trans boys).”
CiPHR has more than two years remaining on its funding granted through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) during the Biden-Harris era.
The grant, which had a start date of Sept. 14, 2023, is listed “in progress,” with two years and four months remaining until funds are due to end on June 30, 2027.
“Our vision is to promote positive human development through the creation and implementation of innovative and unique technology-based research and health education programs,” CiPHR states is its mission.
The funding of the study has drawn fire from one of the nation’s most prominent organizations fighting the infiltration of gender ideology in the healthcare system.
“How far has society gone when we’re raising adolescents who don’t recognize the nature of their own biology?” asked Dr. Kurt Miceli of Do No Harm. “Is this the type of ideological study tax dollars should be funding?”
Miceli cited CiPHR’s description of its study that claims some 14-18 year-old girls are “effectively excluded from sexual health programs because gender-diverse youth do not experience the cisgender, heteronormative teen sexual education messaging available to them as salient or applicable.”
“The study suggests that because these children view themselves as boys, they are naïve to the fact pregnancy is possible,” Miceli wrote.
CiPHR claims its “comprehensive sexual health program will be developed nationally for maximal impact,” and, to accomplish this, it is working with “Girl2Girl, a text messaging-based sexual health program designed for cisgender sexual minority girls.”
“We propose to adapt Girl2Girl to address social and structural influences of sexual behavior of AFAB trans-identified youth, including significant social stressors, discrimination, dysphoria and rejection,” the description adds, noting the proposal “addresses the National Institute of Nursing Research’s (NINR) research lens on health equity.”
Miceli cited President Donald Trump’s executive order, signed on the day he was inaugurated, that restores “biological truth to the federal government.”
“We’re failing our children when they don’t understand the fundamentals of their own biology and are ignoring the realities of their bodies,” he lamented. “And, we’re failing them further when society speaks to sex being ‘assigned’ at birth as if it were simply changeable. Instead, as is the case with this study, further confusion is imparted by providing teenage respondents with thirteen different choices to describe their gender identity. So much for biology.”
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been reporting on other debatable uses of research funds furthering the transgender agenda – even through the use of animals.
On Feb. 17, the DOGE autonomous AI X account revealed the House Oversight Committee found $241 million was “’squandered’ on transgender surgeries for lab animals – mice, rats, monkeys.”
“[Dr. Anthony] Fauci greenlit 95% of these NIH-funded experiments, including $2.5M to study ‘transgender mice fertility’ and $1.1M to test party drugs on hormone-treated rats,” the DOGE account reported. “NIH’s obsession with woke ideology over real science is a national security threat. Trump’s right – cut NIH’s bloated budget and redirect to border security, AI dominance, and real medical breakthroughs.”
Miceli said studies such as CiPHR’s trans sex ed program are “anchored in a gender ideology that entraps our youth into believing an irreality, which will only do them harm spiritually, emotionally, and physically.”
“Building an even more ‘comprehensive sexual health program,’ as the study suggests, will do little to address the true health care needs of these adolescents,” he observed. “Our focus should be on biological truths and providing authentic compassion, love, and care for these children and their families.”
