US Taxpayers Unknowingly Fund Grooming and Pedophilia
CommentaryTaxpayer dollars are being used to fund agencies that are grooming school children. As a public-school teacher and former school board member in Orange County, California, I have discovered things about government grants through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health I would never believe, unless I saw it with my own eyes. One organization 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 advocates 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 his article, Mr. Reeg compared a person’s need for food to a person’s need for sex, saying both are vital for survival. He said, just as everyone has the right to eat, everyone has the right to sexual activity. Mr. 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 a link titled: 5 Tips for Your Sexual Health During Covid-19. This article provided another link that gave 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, 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) many school districts use nationwide. In their 2018 version (pdf) about sexual consent, it states that “consent is a fundamental right for people of all ages” [p. 7, (K-12)]. The 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 over) is one of these identities, according to AFY. The CDC has endorsed a project targeting YMSM with a school-centered approach to increase HIV and STD 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, pan-sexual, and queer.” Queer is “an umbrella term” for nonconforming fluid identities (p. 63, 65). The CDC says kids can make up their own genders. The term “non-binary,” 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” where 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 Ph.D in psychology from Harvard, publicly endorsed pedophilia. In an April 1980 issue of Time Magazine, he was quoted: “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 said, “If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or twelve who’s intensely attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, and the relationship is totally mutual,
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Taxpayer dollars are being used to fund agencies that are grooming school children. As a public-school teacher and former school board member in Orange County, California, I have discovered things about government grants through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health I would never believe, unless I saw it with my own eyes.
One organization 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 advocates 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 his article, Mr. Reeg compared a person’s need for food to a person’s need for sex, saying both are vital for survival. He said, just as everyone has the right to eat, everyone has the right to sexual activity. Mr. 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 a link titled: 5 Tips for Your Sexual Health During Covid-19. This article provided another link that gave 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, 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) many school districts use nationwide. In their 2018 version (pdf) about sexual consent, it states that “consent is a fundamental right for people of all ages” [p. 7, (K-12)]. The 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 over) is one of these identities, according to AFY. The CDC has endorsed a project targeting YMSM with a school-centered approach to increase HIV and STD 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, pan-sexual, and queer.” Queer is “an umbrella term” for nonconforming fluid identities (p. 63, 65).
The CDC says kids can make up their own genders. The term “non-binary,” 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” where 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 Ph.D in psychology from Harvard, publicly endorsed pedophilia. In an April 1980 issue of Time Magazine, he was quoted: “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 said, “If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or twelve who’s intensely attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, and the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way.”
Although John William Money’s famous twins study was a complete failure and proved the opposite of his theory, he won a prestigious award in 2002 from the German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research and was funded for 35 years on taxpayer money by the National Institutes of Health, according to Colapinto. He also pioneered and established the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic for transsexual surgeries. Most importantly and alarmingly, the CDC has embraced John William Money’s ideology of gender identity, and now it is 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.
A version of this article was originally published in The Liberty Sentinel on Sept. 6.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
