Megan Brock

Yes, that's it.

That's what you need to imagine.

So then in January 2023, they actually put out this...

call for contractors to fulfill this grant, where they were creating what's called a technical assistance center to the Children's Bureau.

Now, the Children's Bureau is an agency that's within HHS that specifically deals with child abuse prevention, right?

So think about that.

If you have one of the...

big premises of this whole thing is the idea that not affirming a child's transgender identity is a cause of harm.

And one of the stories we report on this series is actually a mother who had her daughter taken away because she would not call her daughter a boy, essentially.

She would not lie to her.

So now you have this, the Biden administration calling for these radical policies to be pushed through the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Agency, which...

It's pretty wild.

And they actually in this call said it was a $20 million grant and they outlined very specifically 12 different tasks and all the different things they wanted to do.

So then they sought out this contractor and the contract was granted to this group of activists, researchers who had been working for almost a decade at this point to create these affirming child welfare resources.

And they were awarded the grant in August of 2024.

And so then what I obtained was the plan for how they were going to implement and transform child welfare services from the inside out.

Really totally under the radar without needing any laws passed.

They were going on Biden's executive order and also the...

LGBTQ affirming foster care rule, if anyone remembers that, that was initially announced in September 2023, became a rule finalized in April 2024, which required foster care parents to affirm a child's transgender identity.

I mean, the plan was to create trainings, to create resources that would spread to child welfare agencies across the country in all 50 states that trained parents, that trained staff,