Washington State appears to be continuing to infect the minds of young students with radical transgender school programming, in defiance of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the use of federal funds to promote gender ideology.
The Washington Personal Responsibility Education Program (WA PREP) is a federally funded program run by the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) that provides educators with recommended curriculum materials about gender ideology, sex-change medical interventions and pornography. The Democrat-run state appears to be flouting President Trump’s clear orders that federal dollars cannot be used to promote gender ideology by maintaining a public website with materials that encourage teachers to use “gender inclusive” language and indoctrinate children that biology doesn’t determine a person’s sex.
American Parents Coalition Executive Director, Alleigh Marré, told the DCNF using federal funds to teach students about gender ideology was “wildly inappropriate.”
“Using federal funding to teach activist curriculum that includes gender ideology for children as young as 5-years-old — especially without parental consent or notification — is wildly inappropriate and an overreach by educators that must be immediately rectified,” Marré told the DCNF.
“We applaud the Trump Administration for investigating this abuse of taxpayer funds to push a blatant political agenda in an effort to indoctrinate kids and hope that further investigations will ensure that any organization receiving taxpayer dollars not only follows the law, but also respects the rights of parents,” stated Marré.
The Washington Department of Health did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.
In a video recommended for elementary school students under an umbrella subject “Gender, LGBTQ+” on the WA PREP website, sex educators ask a classroom of young students if “everyone born with a vulva is a girl.” When students are unsure of the correct answer, a sex educator tells them “genitals don’t actually determine our gender, so some people with vulva’s can be boys.”
Later in the video a woman, who calls herself a transgender man, visits the children’s classroom and describes how she was born female but is now male after taking testosterone and having a double mastectomy. When a student asks “Do you have male or female parts?” the gender-confused person responds by telling the child “I really only talk about […] what’s in my pants, if people are getting in there.”
The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) has received more than 10 million dollars in PREP program payments from the Administration of Child and Families, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), since 2013, according to a government spending website.
An HHS representative told the DCNF Secretary Kennedy and President Trump are committed to removing gender ideology from the PREP program.
“In April, HHS directed all PREP states and grantees, including the state of Washington, to submit their sex education curricula and materials for review. HHS is actively reviewing submissions to ensure they are free from ideological agendas and aligned with the law,” said HHS Press Secretary, Vianca N. Rodriguez Feliciano.
“As Secretary Kennedy has made clear, federal funds may not be used to promote radical gender ideology, sexually explicit materials, or content that undermines biological reality or parental rights. Secretary Kennedy and President Trump remain committed to keeping PREP focused on its original intent– not gender ideology,” Rodriguez Feliciano told the DCNF.
The PREP program is a federal program funded through the Affordable Care Act which provides grants to states nationwide for the provision of evidence-based STD and pregnancy prevention education for youth. A recent investigation of the California PREP program by the Trump administration found program materials included sexual education lessons which promoted gender ideology. On June 20, Health and Human Services (HHS) gave California 60 days to remove the “egregious” gender ideology content or risk the loss of funding.
HHS took similar action on July 2 when it issued a statement clarifying that the mission of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP) is to provide “medically accurate and age-appropriate programming” aimed at reducing teen pregnancy and program funds “may not be used to indoctrinate America’s children with radical ideologies or other inappropriate material.”
Educational resources on the WA PREP website instruct educators to use “gender inclusive” language avoid and binary terms such as “male” and “female” when teaching sexual education. One WA PREP toolkit explains teachers should use the phrase “pregnant person” rather than “pregnant women” because “not all pregnant people are women.” The toolkit acknowledges it’s unnatural to use these terms and recommends teachers practice using “gender inclusive” language in the mirror, telling educators “the more you practice the less awkward it feels.”
A gender inclusive language toolkit used as part of the WA PREP program.
Another resource provides scripts that guide educators on how to use “gender inclusive” language to help students challenge the assumption that there are only two sexes.
“When I talk about bodies I’ll talk about bodies with a penis and testicles or bodies with a vulva and ovaries. You might wonder why I’m doing this instead of just saying male bodies or female bodies,” states a WA PREP toolkit script.
“As we’ve discussed, there aren’t just two kinds of bodies. I also want everyone to get used to using accurate language for body parts and functions without assuming that there are only two sexes and that everyone within a particular sex is the same.”
Read State Superintendent Reykdal’s full statement on President Trump’s discriminatory executive order that seeks to ban trans female athletes from participating in girls’ sports.https://t.co/gzTXZQboMJ#WAedu pic.twitter.com/qoCat0tia8
— WA State OSPI (@waOSPI) February 6, 2025
In 2020, the Washington State legislature passed a bill requiring public schools to teach “inclusive” Comprehensive Sexual Education (CHSE) curriculum to students in grades K-12. CHSE is a type of sexual education that normalizes transgenderism and gender ideology to students as young as five.
An October 2024 contract shows the Washington DOH website paid Cardea Services, a nonprofit organization that provides CSHE education nationwide, over $816,000 to implement the WA PREP Program for one year. Cardea Services is responsible for maintaining and updating the WA PREP website as well as recruiting and providing CSHE trainings to school districts and community partners, which included Planned Parenthood, the YMCA and 35 Washington State school districts, according to the contract. Washington state agencies have paid Cardea Services more than $2 million dollars since August 2023, according to a Washington state financial transparency website.
Cardea Services did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
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