The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is awarding a $698,736 grant to the Center for Innovative Public Health Research, aimed at creating a pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys.
The program seeks to address the inadequacy of traditional sexual education for gender-diverse youth and will involve testing an adaptation of an existing sex education program on a national cohort of transgender youth.
“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,” the award description reads. (Trending: Two Names Emerge As Trump’s Possible 2024 Running Mate)
“Data suggest that AFAB [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,” it adds. The “health inequity must be addressed.”
“Messaging will be gender affirming” and will “reduce internalized transphobia,” it reads.
Additionally, the HHS has allocated $1.4 million to develop an HIV prevention program for transgender girls.
This funding aligns with other actions taken by the HHS to support transgenderism, including funding a study on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone treatment.
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