This Nonprofit Got $22 Million in Government Grants to Teach Kids About Sex Toys

www.city-journal.org ^ | April 07, 2025 | Hannah Grossman

[Red Badger]

The Center for Innovative Public Health Research uses taxpayer dollars for deviant projects.

For nearly a decade, the federal government has funded a nonprofit group that works to educate minors about sex toys, while discouraging them from telling their parents about it. The Center for Innovative Public Health Research has received more than $22 million in federal money since 2016. According to its website, the group creates “health education programs” that “promote positive human development.” But the content of those programs—and the comments of the organization’s CEO, Michele Ybarra—suggest that CIPHR’s “human development” goals are anything but positive.

Take Girl2Girl. Launched in 2017 and run by CIPHR, it’s a federally funded “sex ed program just for teen girls who are into girls.” Its website allows users—mostly between ages 14 and 16, according to one study—to sign up for “daily text messages . . . about things like sex with girls and boys.”

The content of those messages raises serious concerns. According to the program’s website, Girl2Girl texts minors about “lube and sex toys,” “the different types of sex and ways to increase pleasure,” and “what it’s like growing up as [a] teen girl who is into girls.” The site also encourages participants to make their “own decision[s] about whether to take part in the research”—and explicitly advises them not to tell their parents if they’d prefer not to.

In 2023, CIPHR launched Transcendent Health, a sex-education program for minors who identify as transgender. The initiative, which received a $1.3 million federal grant that expired last month, conducted “focus group discussions with gender minority teens across the country.” To participate in the focus group, teens had to fill out a form asking whether they had had sex “with a transgender guy” or “with a non-binary person.”

Spearheading these projects is CIPHR’s CEO, Ybarra, who has shown little respect for parental rights. In a 2022 Brown University webinar, for example, Ybarra noted how her researchers prepare “young person[s]” for her focus groups. “If we’re doing focus groups,” she said, “we will ask, ‘Okay, so what happens if somebody comes into the room and sees words like penis and sex toys on your screen—on your computer screen or on your phone? What if it’s your mom?’”

Ybarra has a long history of such disturbing work. In 2017, she presented the results of a survey that CIPHR administered, which asked kids aged 14 to 16 whether they had had “receptive anal sex” or “insertive anal sex.” In the 2022 webinar, she added that she and her research team “wanted to know a bit more about when and why and where trans kids are choosing to have sex.”

The federal government should not fund programs that send sexually explicit messages to minors and encourage them to conceal these communications from parents. To protect children and prevent further harm, the Department of Health and Human Services should immediately cancel CIPHR’s active contract and deny its future grant applications. By doing so, the Trump administration can send a clear message: taxpayers will no longer foot the bill for perverted “research” projects.

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Hannah Grossman is an investigative reporter at the Manhattan Institute.

[Gen.Blather]

I’m guessing some huge percentage of this money went to “overhead.” In that overhead you’d probably find things like contractor payments and/or consulting and/or advertising, all of which are ways of funneling the money to the people who Okay’d the grant. A forensic accountant could develop multiple fraud cases.

[spankalib]

Honestly, can you imagine our fathers and grandfathers - go all the way back to Jefferson, if you want!...

hearing of this?

There would be public flogging and hangings!

[Red Badger]

It’s all just one big money kickback scam for Democrats...............

[FreedomNotSafety]

And part of those payments to contractors funnled to Democratic candidates.

[bobbo666]

That is what tranny crappola is all about: $$ and getting to talk to kiddies about their genitals. Anyone involved in these programs are groomers.

[No name given]

Correct. That’s how far into the gutter our society has fallen.

[No name given]

Don’t forget perverts and traitors as well.

[SaveFerris]

(This Nonprofit Got $22 Million in Government Grants to Teach Kids About Sex Toys)

Godless Reprobates





2015 - A GODLESS REPROBATE
ABOMINATION of the WHITE HOUSE

All according to SATAN'S plan.

Rainbow White House happened on June 26, 2015



Do NO harm, Christians, but reject this Godless Reprobate Agenda.
(For the thread)

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[SaveFerris]

(to sign up for “daily text messages . . . about things like sex with girls and boys.”)

WOW 😮😮😮

[Liz]

Call Congress.

Message The Center for Innovative Public Health Research’s CEO, Michele Ybarra got $22 million tax dollars to educate minors about sex toys, while discouraging them from telling their parents about it.

This must end.

[SaveFerris]

(This MUST end)

YES 👍👍👍

The world 🌍🌎🌏 is infected with
SATAN'S confusion on MALE vs FEMALE

That Old Serpent 🐍 called the Devil and Satan
has been using this since the Days of Lot
in Genesis chapter 19.

The apostasy and the Days of Lot are upon us.
As prophesied by Jesus Christ Himself.

Do NO harm, Christians, but reject
this Godless Reprobate Agenda.
(For the thread)



Quite the destructive SATANIC LIE
from the pits of Fiery Hell 🔥🔥🔥

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Pride goes before destruction - Proverbs 16 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈



LURKERS PLEASE SHARE these pictures /
Scriptures via TEXT AND EMAIL

[SaveFerris]

[the organization’s CEO, Michele Ybarra—suggest that CIPHR’s “human development” goals are anything but positive.

Take Girl2Girl. Launched in 2017 and run by CIPHR, it’s a federally funded “sex ed program just for teen girls who are into girls.” Its website allows users—mostly between ages 14 and 16, according to one study—to sign up for “daily text messages . . . about things like sex with girls and boys.”

[SaveFerris]

PRESIDENT TRUMP please end their FEDERAL FUNDING TODAY!!

(In 2023, CIPHR launched Transcendent Health, a sex-education program for minors who identify as transgender. The initiative, which received a $1.3 million federal grant that expired last month, conducted “focus group discussions with gender minority teens across the country.” To participate in the focus group, teens had to fill out a form asking whether they had had sex “with a transgender guy” or “with a non-binary person.”)

LURKERS PLEASE SHARE these
pictures / Scriptures via TEXT AND EMAIL

The apostasy and the Days of Lot are upon us. As prophesied by Jesus Christ Himself.

Do NO harm, Christians, but reject
this Godless Reprobate Agenda.
(For the thread)

[GOPJ]

“the different types of sex and ways to increase pleasure,” and “what it’s like growing up as [a] teen girl who is into girls.”

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WOKE (WORK)

[SaveFerris]

[she (Ybarra) added that she and her research team “wanted to know a bit more about when and why and where "TRANS KIDS" are choosing to have sex.”]

(transgender people)

NO SUCH THING AS "TRANSGENDER" EXISTS
ON THE FACE OF THE ENTIRE EARTH 🌍🌏🌎

And in America DEMOCRATS are adding to AND pushing this SATANIC confusion (upon the world 🌏 🌍 through USAID and the State Department while under DEMOCRAT Joe Biden)

Hopefully lurkers will TEXT 📱 📱 📱
and EMAIL 📨 📨 📨 these to others,
post elsewhere too, and wake people up

That Old Serpent 🐍 called the Devil and Satan is doing an excellent job destroying society with this madness - hard to believe that there are actually people defending this stuff



Godless Reprobate DEMOCRATS are destroying America
using SATAN'S LIES - WAKE UP,, AMERICANS

[unlearner]

An organized crime syndicate of child sex abusers gets paid with our tax dollars and cutting the funding off is “controversial”.

No. What’s controversial is that no arrests have been made and no charges filed.

[MikelTackNailer]

This makes me long for the good old days when a health teacher demonstrating condom use with a banana was scandalous.

[AmericanMermaid]

It just keeps getting more and more disgusting.

[Kudsman]

The people funding toy porn in the name of education. Only a Democrat could dream it up.