{"id":2639181,"date":"2026-08-02T10:48:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-defunds-the-lefts-graphic-sex-ed-in-favor-of-lessons-on-marriage-family\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:56:37","slug":"trump-defunds-the-lefts-graphic-sex-ed-in-favor-of-lessons-on-marriage-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-defunds-the-lefts-graphic-sex-ed-in-favor-of-lessons-on-marriage-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Defunds the Left&#8217;s Graphic Sex Ed in Favor of Lessons on Marriage, Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Ftrump-defunds-the-lefts-graphic-sex-ed-in-favor-of-lessons-on-marriage-family%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=2639181&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--><p>The article discusses changes in U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/racist-incident-that-triggered-virginia-schools-woke-revolution-linked-to-anti-racist-consultants\/\" title=\"\u2018Racist\u2019 Incident That Triggered Virginia Schools\u2019 Woke Revolution Linked To \u2018Anti...Racist\u2019 Consultants\">sex education policies<\/a> during the Trump administration, highlighting a shift towards promoting abstinence and traditional values in youth sexual health programs. It criticizes previous liberal-led sex education,which often included graphic content and promoted sexual activity among minors,linked to organizations like Planned Parenthood. The new policies emphasize age-appropriate, non-explicit content that supports parental rights and advocates for abstinence, marriage, and fertility preservation. Experts and advocates stress that this approach aligns with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-tells-chelsea-clinton-he-faces-phenomenal-amount-of-hostility-for-promoting-simple-public-health-principles\/\" title=\"Fauci Tells Chelsea Clinton He Faces \u2018Phenomenal Amount Of Hostility\u2019 For Promoting \u2018Simple Public ... Principles\u2019\">public health principles<\/a> and aims to better support adolescent well-being by setting higher standards and reducing exposure to potentially harmful content. The piece argues that moral and research-backed education methods are essential for healthier outcomes, contrasting them with previous models deemed to have contributed to declining emotional and social health among teenagers.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Americans have been so busy fighting against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-the-fight-against-critical-race-theory-has-only-just-begun\/\" title=\"GOP: The Fight Against Critical Race Theory Has Only Just Begun\">radical gender ideology<\/a> and critical race theory in schools that one of the Left\u2019s favorite ways to undermine parents has fallen under the radar. But the Trump administration hasn\u2019t lost sight of graphic sex education, and parents everywhere should be grateful for it. In a very underreported move, the president\u2019s team went on the offensive this summer, zeroing out millions of taxpayer dollars for controversial \u201cTeen Pregnancy Prevention\u201d programs in favor of solid curriculum that emphasizes abstinence and marriage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/22\/us\/politics\/teen-pregnancy-prevention-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-\">The New York Times<\/a> picked up on the cuts weeks after the fact in a sob story lamenting how caught off guard local nonprofits had been by HHS\u2019s announcement. But frankly, no one should be surprised. The Trump administration slashed dozens of grants like this in its first term, arguing \u2014 rightly \u2014 that they only existed to sexualize children, not equip them to make positive and healthy choices. A whopping 53 programs ended up on the chopping block, saving Americans $67 million in what the president\u2019s budget called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/07\/07\/nx-s1-5875464\/trump-administration-cancels-grants-aimed-at-reducing-teen-pregnancies\">radical leftist ideology<\/a>.\u201d If anything, the administration argued, the Biden- and Obama-era sex ed models have only \u201cnormalize[ed] sexual activity for minors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to\u00a0liberal ideologues masquerading as health experts, activists like Planned Parenthood have had unlimited access to America\u2019s classrooms, knowing if they hook kids on sex, they\u2019re grooming the next generation of abortion customers. It\u2019s been a great down payment on future business \u2014 until now. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) made it clear that the department is under new management where all of this is concerned, posting a <a href=\"https:\/\/health.gov\/priorities\">list of priorities<\/a> that should relieve every sane parent in America.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, the agency vows to ensure that adolescent program materials are \u201cage-appropriate\u201d and \u201cdo not promote harmful ideologies, such as gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology. OASH will focus on programs that do not promote material that depicts, describes, exposes or presents obscene, indecent, or sexually explicit content,\u201d the document notes, \u201cincluding content that encourages, normalizes or promotes sexual activity for minors. OASH will prioritize OASH programs and funding that are in compliance with these priorities and applicable law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Second, OASH promises to defend parental rights \u201cto the fullest extent of its authority under the law \u2026 including parents\u2019 right to protect their children from exposure to content that burdens the exercise of their religious beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under this new criteria, NYT complains, anyone applying for taxpayer dollars \u201cmust teach abstinence,\u201d also known as sexual risk avoidance, \u201cas the only means to prevent teen pregnancy. Courses must stress the importance of marriage and procreation and instruct young people how to safeguard their fertility. They make scant reference to preventing sexually transmitted infections and virtually none to lesbian, gay and transgender sexuality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As FRC\u2019s Quena Gonz\u00e1lez pointed out to The Washington Stand, \u201cThe fact that some professional sex ed providers who receive millions of dollars in federal funds are complaining that these priorities are now required to continue receiving taxpayer dollars should alarm parents and enrage taxpayers. We shouldn\u2019t be allowing, much less paying for, schools to tell students, \u2018We know you\u2019re going to experiment, wink wink, so here\u2019s how to derive the most sexual pleasure from underage sex.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonz\u00e1lez applauded the overhaul as an overdue change to the dangerous status quo. \u201cInsisting that taxpayers pay adults to teach middle schoolers \u2014 typically 11-14 years old \u2014 about \u2018sexual consent,\u2019 pleasurable condom use, or how adolescent girls can use intrauterine devices and implants to avoid pregnancy, is just plain creepy,\u201d he said. \u201cKids need to be taught that sex is a wonderful gift and a powerful expression of adult love when it is exercised within the safety of a loving marriage covenant. Sex isn\u2019t a toy, and the harms of offering it to minors are well documented and not really debated; studies show that delaying sexual contact until marriage increases the chances of a stable marriage and <a href=\"https:\/\/weascend.org\/resource\/poverty-prevention-and-the-success-sequence\/\">decreases<\/a> the chance of living in poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Huber, who\u2019s spent decades fighting for this kind of principled approach to sex ed, had one reaction to the administration\u2019s pivot: relief. \u201cMostly for the young people,\u201d the president of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theiwh.org\/\">The Institute for Women\u2019s Health<\/a> told TWS. \u201cFor years, sexual risk avoidance had to justify itself while the alternative was funded as though its results were settled. That was never a research question. It was a worldview question dressed up as one.\u201d Now, thanks to Trump, \u201crisk avoidance is being treated as a legitimate public health goal for adolescents, the way it already is for every other youth risk behavior. We do not teach teenagers to smoke carefully. We tell them the truth about risk, and we help them stay at no risk or move from high risk to low risk to no risk,\u201d she emphasized. \u201cSexual health is the one place we abandoned that model, but now HHS is being consistent across all youth risk behaviors. Bravo!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huber looked back over the last several years, lamenting the damage that the Left\u2019s \u201cif-it-feels-good-do-it\u201d message has done. \u201cWhen adults in authority signal that sexual activity is expected of a 14-year-old, that is not neutral information,\u201d she insisted. \u201cIt is permission, and for many students it is pressure.\u201d Under Obama and Biden, she noted, \u201cThese programs routinely positioned outside providers, including organizations whose business model depends on abortion, as the trusted adult in a young person\u2019s life \u2014 and treated parents as an obstacle to be managed. A curriculum that teaches a 15-year-old how to obtain services without telling her mother is not a health program,\u201d Valerie argued.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of Trump\u2019s first term, \u201cStudents have been offered risk reduction at best and rarely offered risk avoidance,\u201d Huber stressed, \u201cwhich is the only approach that eliminates risk rather than managing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although teen pregnancies have dropped over time, she acknowledges, it was a hollow victory. \u201cWe counted births. We counted birth control. We did not count infections, we did not count coercion, and we did not measure what happens when pregnancy prevention becomes a substitute for holistic health and thriving for young people,\u201d Valerie said. \u201cWe called it a win. In those same years, the emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual health of American adolescents all declined. If your scorecard shows success while the young people on it are falling apart, you are measuring the wrong thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the nonprofits who\u2019ve been suddenly cut off from this federal gravy train are complaining that this creates an \u201cexistential dilemma\u201d for sex ed. Some, the Times reports, are even suing HHS over the new requirements. But the reality is, there\u2019s no \u201cright\u201d to taxpayer dollars \u2014 especially not for an indoctrination scheme that\u2019s only exacerbating the problems they claim to solve.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, America needs to stop believing that young people can only meet the low bars we set. \u201cHand a young person a high standard and tell them you believe they can meet it, and most of them rise to it,\u201d Huber underscored. \u201cWhat they resent instantly is the adult who tells them they cannot be expected to control themselves. They hear that for exactly what it is, which is a low opinion of them.\u201d The Left\u2019s model assumes \u201cevery teenager is sexually active,\u201d she shook her head. \u201cMost high school students are not. \u2026 No one argues that because some teenagers will use drugs, prevention is unrealistic and we should teach safer use instead. We hold the optimal health standard, and we surround it with skills, support, and honesty about risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To those who say the approach isn\u2019t proven, Dr. Michelle Cretella strongly disagrees. \u201cA rigorous review by the <a href=\"https:\/\/institute-research.com\/\">Institute for Research<\/a> demonstrates that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-activists-use-your-tax-dollars-to-sexualize-kids-at-school\/\" title=\"How Activists Use Your Tax Dollars To ...ualize Kids At School\">sexual risk avoidance education<\/a> (SRAE) holds great promise. It aligns with the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >primary public health principle acknowledged<\/a> by the CDC: abstinence is the only 100% effective way to prevent STDs and pregnancy, as condoms cannot guarantee absolute protection.\u201d Unlike the Planned Parenthood-style programs, \u201ceffective SRAE is medically accurate,\u201d she told TWS, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/nexbiohealth.org\/inclusive-comprehensive-sex-education\/\">an article<\/a> she just authored for an online medical journal. It \u201cdiscusses condoms and contraceptives and helps students commit to abstinence without decreasing contraceptive use among those who are already sexually active.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, our schools were never meant to be a substitute for moms and dads, who have the ultimate responsibility to raise their children in a way that reflects their values. It\u2019s not the job of teachers or outside \u201cexperts\u201d to contradict those beliefs or commandeer a parent\u2019s authority on topics that, in all honesty, don\u2019t belong in classrooms in the first place. Now, instead of shipping off tens of millions of dollars to graphic programs that double as LGBT recruiting programs and abortion infomercials, the president is letting research, parents, and common sense dictate how America approaches sex ed. 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