Taxpayer-Funded Professional Associations Push Puberty Blockers, DEI, and Support for Hamas, Watchdog Finds
22nd May 2025
Professional trade groups that push “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” anti-Semitism, and far-left politics are still raking in millions in taxpayer dollars—despite a series of Trump administration executive orders—according to federal spending records. One such organization is introducing young children to radical gender ideology.
The Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) America, which represents over 200,000 gym teachers and health instructors, has received over $2.5 million since 2020 from the Centers for Disease Control and the Department of Defense’s educational program for children of American service members.
SHAPE helped draft the National Sex Education Standards, which set age-related teaching benchmarks.