The federal government is spending nearly one million dollars to research how science courses should best deny there are only two genders.
Florida International University, Colorado State University, and the University of Minnesota have been awarded a total of $905,694 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct a study called “Collaborative Research: A qualitative inquiry into sex/gender narratives in undergraduate biology and their impacts on transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming students.”
The project’s aim is to research how universities can alter their biology curricula to “create a more inclusive environment for transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming (TNG) students.”
“The goals of this project are to: 1) explore how sex and gender are currently represented in the undergraduate biology content, 2) describe the impact this content has on classroom climate and belonging for TNG students, and 3) characterize the current efforts of biology instructors to create a more inclusive climate for TNG students,” read the NSF grant abstract.
The project comes after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) pumped $700,000 into sex education for young girls who claim to believe they are boys.
The grant was awarded to the Center for Innovative Public Health Research, a nonprofit focused on creating “an inclusive teen pregnancy program for transgender boys.”
According to the grant description, “Youth who are assigned female at birth . . . are at risk for negative sexual health outcomes yet 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.”
“Data suggest that [assigned female at birth] trans-identified youth may be less likely to use condoms when having sex with people who have penises and are at least as likely as cisgender girls to be pregnant,” the abstract continued. “This health inequity must be addressed.”
The program, which began in September and will run until June 2027, will include Girl2Girl, “a text messaging based-sexual health program designed for cisgender sexual minority girls 14–18 years of age.” The Center for Innovative Public Health Research will then test that service with 700 young girls who claim to be boys, the Daily Wire reported.
