Pennsylvania Social Workers Must Assign Infants a Gender Identity

There are three options: male, female and ‘nonbinary” Getty Images

Pennsylvania social workers need to now determine if the newborns are identified as being Pennsylvanians. “nonbinary,” According to the government forms reviewed and approved by the Washington Free Beacon.

The state’s Office of Child Development and Early Learning, which funds health and social programs for young children, requires providers to report demographic information on their cases—including, since 2022, the gender identity of infants. Data Collection forms The agency will now request newborns’ “gender” Instead of focusing on their sex, allow providers to choose male, female, or both “Gender Non-Binary.”

These forms must be completed by providers to be eligible for funding. These requirements can be applied to many home-visiting programs that children use, including those for infants.

“I have to ask clients, ‘Is your 10-day-old male, female, or nonbinary?'” One Pennsylvania social worker works in one of the agency’s home-visiting programs. The programs offer a variety of services to children of all ages, including therapy and child neglect interventions.

We will respond to your detailed inquiry Free BeaconPennsylvania’s Department of Human Services (which houses the Office of Child Development) has downplayed these requirements.

“This is a field for data collection,” Ali Fogarty was the communications director for the department and sent an email. “There is no directive or expectation that parents be verbally or explicitly asked if their children are nonbinary.”

The questions, which were updated in August according to the forms, come amid mounting concerns that the rise in childhood gender dysphoria has been driven by social forces—including the push to teach young people about gender identity and the practice of “affirming” Transgender children are those who identify as such. It is a common practice. “not a neutral act,” A Review The National Health Service of England concluded its last year’s work in the country, but it did not include an “active intervention” This can be used to lock in trans identity and promote the distress it is meant to relieve.

This concern is supported by a growing body of research. Leor Sapir of the Manhattan Institute said that about 12 studies have been done on children suffering from gender dysphoria. Of these, 11 found that the condition resolves by puberty.

A 2022 exception was the only exception Study Only children who had completed their schooling were eligible to enroll. “socially transitioned,” in part, by changing their pronouns and names. In that study—where all the participants had their gender identity “affirmed”—94 percent of