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Trump Ends Radical Indoctrination, Promotes Education Freedom

President Donald J. Trump signed two significant education-related executive orders on January 29. The first aims to increase educational freedom for families, while the second is designed to stop the indoctrination of children into “radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight.”

The Executive Order Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families directs the Department of Education to “issue guidance regarding how States can use Federal formula funds to support K-12 educational choice initiatives,” and it directs the DOE to prioritize education freedom “in discretionary grant programs.”

The directive explains the need for greater freedom for parents to improve their children’s academic success and provide “the best education for their children”:  

Too many children do not thrive in their assigned, government-run K-12 school.

According to this year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 70 percent of 8th graders were below proficient in reading, and 72 percent were below proficient in math.

When only 30% of students are mastering basic subjects like reading and math, something is desperately wrong.

The order goes on to state that when schools fail to educate students, “It hinders our national competitiveness and devastates families and communities.”

The executive order provides more momentum for the growing educational freedom movement. The goals of this movement include giving teachers and schools freedom to innovate, encouraging school transparency, holding schools accountable for educational outcomes, safeguarding parental rights in education, and expanding school choice.

School choice is a vital aspect of educational freedom, offering parents a variety of options for how and where to educate their children. Options include traditional public schools, magnet schools, homeschooling opportunities, charter schools, online learning, private schools and hybrid models, which combine several alternatives.

States that support parents’ rights in education provide funding for these choices through different means, such as scholarships, vouchers, educational savings accounts, tax credits and tax deductions. The best option for parents is when states allow funds to follow students to their schooling choice.

While the federal government doesn’t control state legislatures or boards of education, which set policies, regulations and guidelines in each state, it does provide education dollars to states through a variety of programs. States can’t be forced to increase educational freedom, but the order offers incentives to improve educational freedom through funding from different federal departments.

The second order, Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling, first explains some of the activist ideologies that have swept across our educational system and why they are damaging. The order states that parents entrust their children to schools to provide them “with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation and the values for which we stand.”

Instead, the directive explains, “Parents have witnessed schools indoctrinate their children in radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight. Such an environment operates as an echo chamber, in which students are forced to accept these ideologies without question or critical examination.”

The order indicts false, immoral and divisive ideologies like critical race theory and gender ideology, explaining their effect on students:

In many cases, innocent children are compelled to adopt identities as either victims or oppressors solely based on their skin color and other immutable characteristics. In other instances, young men and women are made to question whether they were born in the wrong body and whether to view their parents and their reality as enemies to be blamed.

These practices not only erode critical thinking but also sow division, confusion, and distrust, which undermine the very foundations of personal identity and family unity.

The order goes on to direct several agencies to collaborate with the attorney general to develop a strategy to end “federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools.”   

In addition, federal agencies must monitor schools that receive federal monies, ensuring that they hold an annual educational program, teach students about the U.S. Constitution on September 17, Constitution Day.

Finally, the executive order reestablishes the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission, which Trump launched in September 2020, appointing Hillsdale College President Dr. Larry P. Arnn to serve as chairman.

One goal for the revived commission is to promote patriotic education, while a second is “to advise and promote the work of the White House Task Force on Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday (“Task Force 250”) and the United States Semiquincentennial Commission.”

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Focus on the Family’s free parenting resource Equipping Parents for Back to School explains issues like educational freedom, parental rights in education, and religious freedom and free speech in schools. It’s a terrific resource for parents who want to advocate for their children and guide them toward academic success.

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Haim Vindicated – DOJ Dismisses Case Against Whistleblower

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dismissed the case against Dr. Eithan Haim, the surgeon who exposed Texas Children’s Hospital’s secret transgender program.

Prosecutors alleged Haim violated privacy protection laws by leaking redacted medical records proving Texas Children’s Hospital performed transgender medical interventions on children long after it pledged to stop such procedures.

If convicted, Haim could have faced 10 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines.

“WE DID IT!!!!! WE WON!!!!!!!” the jubilant surgeon celebrated on X with a picture of the case’s official dismissal.

Even just two weeks ago, Dr. Haim’s vindication seemed far from certain. Haim and his wife, Andrea, an attorney herself, say President Trump’s inauguration on January 20, only intensified prosecutors’ determination to put the good doctor behind bars.

When the Haims connected with Missouri Senator Josh Hawley earlier this month, they feared the court would make good on its threat to send Haim to jail for posting ‘inflammatory’ content about the case on X.

“[Dr. Haim] was very worried that a warrant might be issued for his imminent arrest, and the DOJ was pushing to start the trial as quickly as possible,” Hawley told The Daily Wire.

The senator reportedly prompted the DOJ to drop the charges.

“I just told [Acting Attorney General James McHenry] that I talked to Dr. Haim,” Hawley recalled, continuing for the Daily Wire,

I said, “Your attorney in the Southern District does not appear to be dropping this case at all. In fact, they appear to be accelerating.” He was alarmed by this. Two hours after we got off the phone, they issued the one sentence dismissal.

Hawley praised McHenry and the Trump administration for jumping on the Haim’s plight.

I have never seen or heard of an administration moving this quickly. To jump into it today and just BOOM, say, “We’re going to draw this to a close,” which is the right thing to do, I think is incredibly impressive.

The Haims’ victory doesn’t lessen the cases’ impact on their lives.

“[This victory] came at great personal cost,” Andrea confessed on X:

Between the two of us, we have had hundreds of sleepless nights worried that he would go to federal prison for 10 years. We are completely broke. He was forced to leave me and his newborn baby daughter in the hospital an hour after I had an emergency c-section to make a court appearance in Houston.

Still, she writes, they wouldn’t do anything differently.

When this case started a year and a half ago, Texas Children’s Hospital was mutilating and sterilizing young children while hiding it from the public.
@EithanHaim was the only person with the courage to stand up for what was right. For him, it wasn’t even a decision. Kids were being harmed, and he had to stop it.

“If you ask either of us, we would do it again in a heartbeat,” she concludes.

Dr. Haim’s fearless testimony shed harsh light on the flagrant harms doctors and hospitals perpetrated against children using transgender medical interventions. His experience inspired Texas legislators to ban physicians from performing transgender medical interventions on minors in 2023.

Now, many of his warnings are reflected in President Trump’s executive order banning the chemical and surgical mutilation of children. You can read the Daily Citizen’s analysis of the order here.

One of the substances included under the White House’s official definition of “chemical and surgical” mutilation are GnRH agonists, sometimes referred to as “puberty blockers.”

In an interview with the Daily Citizen nearly a year ago, Dr. Haim warned against GnRH by name.

“The drugs doctors use as puberty blockers aren’t supposed to be used long term because of the side-effects,” he explained, continuing:

Doctors use gonadotropin releasing hormone (GNRH) analogs to treat things like endometriosis. They only recommend it for six months — hard stop — because of its effect on bones, and because it can cause menopausal symptoms. Prostate cancer drugs are employed for a similar time frame, because of the side effects and the chance of tumors becoming resistant.
But, somehow, when they’re used as puberty blockers, doctors will treat people with GNRH analogs and prostate cancer drugs for years.

The executive order also bans the use of opposite-sex hormone interventions, which Haim described as performing “a million micro-surgeries to [adolescents’] bones, heart and blood vessels every single day.”

“There’s no surgery that can prevent your secondary sexual characteristics from developing,” he explained.

There’s no surgery that can cause your bones to become that of a 65-year-old woman. There’s no surgery in the world that can cause your brain not to develop. Nothing can do those things except for these medications.

Haim is one of many doctors committed to healing their patients, rather than making them sick. His vindication is proof that legislators and voters still believe whistleblowers should be protected, not prosecuted.

To read all about Dr. Haim’s story, check out the articles and timeline linked below.

Additional Articles and Resources

New Evidence Upends Haim Trial; New Momentum for Whistleblower

UPDATE: Evidence Reveals DOJ Oversight in Haim Case

EXCLUSIVE: Lawyer Marcella Burke talks representing whistleblower Eithan Haim and fighting against child abuse.

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Citizen interviews Dr. Eithan Haim, the surgeon who exposed a secret transgender medical program at Texas Children’s Hospital.

Texas Children’s Whistleblowers Speak at First Joint Event

Texas Children’s Hospital Embroiled In Fraud Scandal as Haim Case Kicks Off

House Oversight Committee Investigates Texas Children’s Medicaid Fraud

Transgender Resources

Addressing Gender Identity with Honesty and Compassion

The Journey Back to My True Identity

What is ‘Gender Identity’

New Research: 50-Fold Increase in ‘Gender Dysphoria’ in UK

New research out of the University of York has found a 50-fold increase in “gender distress” in children and young people in the United Kingdom in just 10 years. Social contagion and mental illness may play a role in the large rise.

The BMJ reported the results, which were originally published online in Archives of Disease in Childhood on January 24, 2025.

The study looked at primary care data in England, and suggests that “1 in every 200 17-18 year olds are affected” by “psychological distress caused by a mismatch between birth sex and gender identity.” The BMJ reported that “from 2015 onwards, the numbers of cases rose more rapidly in those recorded as female than those recorded as male by their family doctors, and were around twice as high by 2021.”

The researchers also found that 53% of the children “had concurrent anxiety, depression, or self-harm recorded.”

Such a large increase in a significant mental health disorder doesn’t happen naturally, societal factors must play a role.

While the York researchers didn’t study the issue of causation, they suggested some possible contributing factors to explain the dramatic increase in children struggling with sexual identity confusion:

Recent increases in incidence of gender dysphoria/incongruence have a range of potential explanations, including social factors (for example, changes in public attitudes towards gender differences, greater awareness and acceptance of gender dysphoria/incongruence, increasing use of social media and networking); [and] increasing rates of emotional distress and poor mental health in this age group, particularly for females. …

Here in the U.S., the number of minors with gender dysphoria diagnoses have also surged, with one report showing an increase from 15,175 children in 2017 to 42,167 in 2022.

Those numbers don’t count the growing number of children and young adults identifying as something other than their biological sex. As reported in the Daily Citizen, a 2023 Gallup study of 18 to 25-year old members of Gen Z showed almost 20% identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, with 3.3% identifying as “transgender” or “other LGBT.”

In 2024, Mia Hughes published a devastating exposé of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health’s (WPATH) “Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People.”

WPATH supports dangerous, experimental and body damaging “gender-affirming care” for children and adults, including puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries.

Hughes’ report, The WPATH Files: Pseudoscientific surgical and hormonal experiments on children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults, demonstrated “the world-leading transgender healthcare group is neither scientific nor advocating for ethical medical care.”

In a post about the new study on X, Hughes stated, “There has never been a more obvious social contagion in all of history.”

Executive Director and Founder of Genspect Stella O’Malley said of the increase: 

I put it down to social contagion, I put it down to social media, and I put it down to an extraordinary politicization of the trans identity. So that people who are lost, and people who are vulnerable, and the children in this study are shown to have a disproportionately high level of maybe autism, mental health problems.
People are lost and lonely, they look for solutions, and the idea that they can be a different person with a different identity is very alluring to a lost and lonely person, especially a young person who hates their body and is going through an exploration of who they are.

She added that she could understand children struggling, adding that clinicians and other “adults in the room need to exercise caution and be very careful with the treatment they give” children.

Indeed. Children who struggle with this intense self-hatred, along with the fantasy that they can become a different sex, deserve compassionate, loving care to embrace their bodily sex.

What they don’t need are harmful, experimental medical interventions that top their natural body and brain development and growth; disfigure and sterilize them; and risk major medical complications such as low bone density, high blood pressure, breast cancer, liver disease, thrombosis, and cardiovascular disease.

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Counseling for Sexual Identity Concerns: A Measured, Careful, and Compassionate Approach

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Questioning Drugs, Hormones and Surgery for Youth Confused about Their Sexual Identity

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Watch This Perfect Response to Gender Ideology

Pierre Poilievre, a current Canadian MP and soon-to-be Prime Minister, gave the world the perfect response to the gender madness being forced upon all of us.

He was recently asked by a Toronto reporter if he would follow President Trump’s lead in having the government recognize only two sexes. The reporter had no idea what he was stepping into.

Poilievre calmly and kindly responded, “Well, I don’t know. Do you have any other genders you’d like to name?”

Poilievre confidently continued, “Well, I am not aware of any other genders than men and women. If you have any others you want me to consider, you can tell me right now.”

Of course, the reporter could not because there are no others. You can see the brilliant exchange below:

Strong, common-sense leaders who are not afraid to dismantle nonsense in such a manner are the order of the day. We need more leaders to stand up.

Remember: If we can’t speak sensibly about male and female, we can’t speak sensibly about the family.

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What Does it Mean to Be Trans, Anyway?

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The Embarrassing Crack-Up of the LGBT Project

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How to Defeat Gender Ideology, Protect Children and End ‘Trans America’

New Research Confirms Previous Findings: Most Gender Confused Kids Desist

The Shifting Ground of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

How the “Trans” and Gender Redefinition Issue Attacks the Family

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President Trump: ‘There are Only Two Genders: Male and Female’

During his inaugural address, President Trump stated, “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.”

The simple declaration of truth brought resounding applause from the audience in the Capitol Rotunda.

Focus on the Family President Jim Daly issued a statement agreeing with Trump’s pronouncement, saying:

In the very first chapter of Genesis, we read that “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Any revolution of common sense must include an acknowledgement of this fundamental truth.
While we’re disappointed that it’s even necessary, we’re grateful that on his first day in office, President Donald J. Trump has prioritized this reality by issuing an executive order restating the obvious.

Daly referenced the order signed by Trump later on Inauguration Day: Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government, adding, “We are long overdue in this effort to reestablish the exclusivity of two genders, thereby protecting our children and serving America’s families.”

The order first explains:

Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers. This is wrong.  
Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being. The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system.  

The directive goes on to state, “Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself,” adding:

Invalidating the true and biological category of “woman” improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based, inchoate social concept.

Indeed. As men who “identify as women” take opportunities from women in education, sports and other arenas, women’s legal rights are trampled. In addition, their privacy and safety are at risk when men who claim to be women enter women’s private spaces, such as restrooms, locker rooms, showers and dressing rooms.

Gender ideology has caused untold damage to individuals and families, as transgender medical interventions cause great harm to the healthy bodies of those suffering from sexual identity confusion.

Young children are regularly sexualized and confused in schools that promote this ideology. And free speech and religious freedom have been assaulted by laws promoted by gender activists and their allies.

Trump stated that his administration “will defend women’s rights and protect freedom of conscience by using clear and accurate language and policies that recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.”

The executive order clearly states what the president articulated in his speech:

It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality. …
“Sex” shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female. “Sex” is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of “gender identity.”

Federal agencies are directed by the order to “enforce laws governing sex-based rights, protections, opportunities, and accommodations,” adding:

Each agency should therefore give the terms “sex”, “male”, “female”, “men”, “women”, “boys” and “girls” the meanings set forth in … this order when interpreting or applying statutes, regulations, or guidance and in all other official agency business, documents, and communications.

The directive forbids federal funds from being “used to promote gender ideology” and it directs agencies to “ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers.”

It directs the attorney general “to ensure that no Federal funds are expended for any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.”

Activists fighting gender ideology and its harmful effects were quick to applaud the president’s statements and actions. In a post on X, women’s rights activist Riley Gaines noted that Trump was keeping promises made during his campaign.

Dr. Colin M. Wright, an evolutionary biologist who has written widely on the scientific and logical problems with current gender ideology, posted that the new administration’s actions will likely bring opposition. Then he stated, “But when they put reality on trial, it won’t end well for them.”

Gender ideology doesn’t change the truth that there are only two sexes – male and female. We’re grateful for this administration’s return to sanity and common sense.

Related articles and resources:

ADF: Victory for women, girls: Federal court rejects Biden admin redefinition of ‘sex’ in Title IX across country

Biden Becomes Nation’s Most Powerful Trans Activist With Executive Order

Court Rules Against DOE’s Title IX Rewrite, Saving Women’s Sports & Spaces – For Now

Even Hard-Boiled Evolutionists are Standing Strong Against Gender Madness

How to Respond to “Trans” and Gender Ideology? Simple: Live Not by Lies

How the “Trans” and Gender Redefinition Issue Attacks the Family

How Science and Faith Can Defeat Gender Ideology – Parts One and Part Two

Transgender Resources

Why Christians Can’t Avoid the “Trans” and Gender Redefinition Issue

What Does it Mean to Be Trans Anyway?

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