{"id":1923122,"date":"2023-05-03T00:56:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T04:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-earmarks-500000-for-transgender-youth-other-groups-in-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T00:58:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T04:58:22","slug":"biden-earmarks-500000-for-transgender-youth-other-groups-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-earmarks-500000-for-transgender-youth-other-groups-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden allocates $500k for transgender youth and other groups in Pakistan."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-earmarks-500000-for-transgender-youth-other-groups-in-pakistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1923122&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Teaching English and Empowering Transgender Youth in Pakistan<\/h2>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0502\/17a483ed-3a02-480b-a764-653e158a3160\/audio.mp3?length=2964717&#038;duration=247\"><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration is taking steps to help Pakistani youth improve their English language skills and become productive members of their community and society. As part of this effort, the administration is offering a $500,000 grant to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-earmarks-500000-for-transgender-youth-other-groups-in-pakistan\/\" title=\"Biden allocates 0k for transgender youth and other groups in Pakistan.\">provide intensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-college-creates-anti-racism-center-for-nursing-students\/\" title=\"Washington College Creates \u2018Anti-Racism\u2019 Center For Nursing Students\">professional development<\/a> courses<\/a> for Pakistani transgender youth.<\/p>\n<h3>Program Components<\/h3>\n<p>The grant focuses on three components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professional development for English language teachers from non-mainstream institutions<\/li>\n<li>Professional development for novice Pakistani English language teachers<\/li>\n<li>Professional development for transgender youth and for Afghan teachers, students, and young professionals residing in Pakistan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The third component of the program aims to provide intensive professional development courses for Pakistani transgender youth aged 13-25 and Afghan teachers, students, and young professionals residing in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<h3>Program Goals<\/h3>\n<p>The program aims to strengthen the English capacity and professional capability of Pakistani transgender youth and Afghan teachers, students, and young professionals residing in Pakistan. Participating teachers will share what they learned in these trainings with English-language professional colleagues, thereby influencing pedagogy in their schools and communities.<\/p>\n<h3>Transgender Policies and Activism<\/h3>\n<p>In 2018, Pakistan enacted the Transgender Persons Protection of Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination against transgender people in schools, workplaces, and public settings, and guarantees them the right to choose their gender on official documents.<\/p>\n<p>However, some lawmakers in the United States are pushing back against efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/laverne-cox-celebrates-barbie-doll-modeled-in-trans-stars-honor-in-new-collection\/\" title=\"Laverne Cox Celebrates \u2018Barbie Doll Modeled\u2019 In Trans Star\u2019s Honor In New Collection\">normalize transgender ideology<\/a> and provide preferential treatment to transgender individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, the Biden administration remains committed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biologically-male-athletes-have-unfair-advantage-over-women-major-review-finds\/\" title=\"Biologically Male Athletes Have Unfair Advantage Over Women, Major Review Finds\">empowering transgender youth<\/a> in Pakistan and helping them succeed in the global community and workplace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is offering a $500,000 grant to help teach the English language in Pakistan, in part by providing \u201cintensive professional development courses for Pakistani transgender youth.\u201d According to the Notice of Funding Opportunity (pdf), the program will \u201cincrease participants\u2019 English language proficiency, employability, and leadership and critical thinking skills, enabling them to become<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":1923123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[7117,10789,3620,16182,4019,5513],"class_list":["post-1923122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-500k","tag-allocates","tag-biden","tag-pakistan","tag-transgender","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}