Federally-Funded Teen-Led Sex Ed Program in Berkeley Could Be Axed by Trump Orders
Federally-Funded Teen-Led Sex Ed Program in Berkeley Could Be Axed by Trump Orders  
Podcast: Education in Focus
Published On: Tue Feb 18 2025
Description: A peer-to-peer sex education program at a public high school in California funded by taxpayers nationwide may be on the chopping block after President Donald Trump signed an executive order prohibiting federal funds from going toward what he called gender ideology “indoctrination” for K-12 students. The federally funded AmeriCorps program at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California, told students in the Sexual Health Information from Teens (SHIFT) program that sex does not equal gender and featured a gender unicorn to illustrate the difference between sex, gender and attraction. Trump signed an executive order in January to "end the federal funding of gender ideology."Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxx Full story: https://www.chalkboardnews.com/issues/cultural-issues/article_eddec9fc-e8b0-11ef-9506-0f440730921b.html