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Chapter 1: What investigation reveals about Biden's child welfare policies?
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Chapter 2: How did Megan Brock start her investigation into child welfare?
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Chapter 3: What shocking document did Megan uncover regarding parental rights?
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It's no secret that Donald Trump's stance on transgenderism helped him defeat Kamala Harris and retake the White House in 2024. But what now seems like conventional wisdom was hardly a foregone conclusion at the time. The president largely stayed away from that issue during his first term and did not make transgenderism part of his 2020 campaign. By 2024, however, things had changed.
The Biden administration had run to the left on the trans issue, inviting drag queens to the White House and infamously declaring a transgender day of visibility that coincided with Easter. As Democrats got more radical on the issue, Republicans grew determined to fight it.
Parents across the country, still scandalized by the glimpses of radical sex education they saw when schools went remote during the coronavirus pandemic, were further moved to action by stories of male students who identified as girls encroaching on female sports and spaces, and in some cases, assaulting girls in bathrooms or locker rooms.
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Chapter 4: How does the FOIA process work for investigative journalism?
By the time Trump began his third campaign for the White House, it was clear that fighting the transgender cult would be a winning issue. But what if it hadn't been enough? What if Kamala Harris had succeeded Joe Biden and Democrats got another four years in the White House to develop their radical gender policy? I'm Daily Wire D.C. Bureau Chief Tim Rice, and this is Behind the Story.
Today, I'm joined by Daily Wire investigative reporter Megan Brock, who recently uncovered a host of emails, memos and other internal documents from the waning days of the Biden administration. These emails showed what officials were planning for a second term and how they would have implemented their plans had Harris toppled Trump.
Her shocking four-part investigation is available to read in its entirety now at The Daily Wire. Let's go behind the story. Megan, thank you so much for joining me.
Thank you so much for having me.
So just take us back to the beginning because I'm always super interested and I think our listeners will be too with big investigative series like this. Talk to us about the genesis of the story. When did you first get the idea and what were your first moves?
Yeah, I mean, really, I've been FOIAing this group, Public Records Request, if anyone doesn't know what FOIA means, since January 2024 is when I really started it.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the 78-page memo in child welfare?
I uncovered on the HHS website late winter of 2023 a document that was produced by HHS where the Biden administration was recommending that social workers doing in-home visits to viewed parents not allowing a child under five to express their so-called gender by, for example, a boy wearing a dress to consider that a form of child abuse. And when I found that document, it absolutely shocked me.
I mean, I knew the medical stuff. I think we all saw the stuff that you said going on with the drag queens, but it really never occurred to me what might be going on in child welfare services. So that's really what kind of got me started down that path.
And so what, just again, for those of our listeners who have never filed a Freedom of Information Act request, it's kind of an intense process, right? So talk us through what that was like and how you actually went about finding these things.
Yeah, so freedom of information requests are something that's required of every level of government. So you can file what's called a FOIA or maybe a different name to your local government, to your school board, or even to the federal government. So basically, it allows citizens and journalists to have government transparency. So you can ask for trainings. You can ask for emails.
There's all kinds of information you can obtain through these public records requests. And so when I had found this document, it had a grant number on it saying where the money came from that had helped produce this piece of information that was really saying that not affirming a child's transgender identity was a form of abuse.
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Chapter 6: What radical changes were proposed in child welfare training?
And I started looking up other grants and started just finding publicly available information and discovered there was this group of researchers that had been given a $10 million grant back in 2016, right at the tail end of the Obama presidency, to start implementing, researching, and creating what I would call gender-affirming child welfare services interventions.
So these were programs that re-educated parents who were not quote-unquote affirming or might help a child who had left their parents' home because they were transgender parents. find their quote unquote chosen affirming family, you know, so all kinds of really crazy things.
And I had realized that a group of these researchers were based in Ohio and working for a public child welfare service there, which was something that would be subject to public records. And that's how I kind of started really diving in and making these requests.
And so before we dive into all of that, because there's a lot there that I want to get to, what was the timeline? How long did it take for you to get these records after you submitted the request? And would you say that was, in your experience, about average?
Yeah, well, I had initially done a bunch of requests in 2024. The one request from... I did them to this group in Ohio and also to the University of Connecticut. So two of the researchers that were pushing this and were actually chosen to lead, help lead this Biden-Soji Institute were located at the University of Connecticut, which is subject to public records because it's a public university.
Some of those requests took like, I mean, eight months to get back. And unfortunately, unless you're working with a state that has... Every state has its own public record rules.
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Chapter 7: How did the Biden administration plan to implement gender ideology?
And so depending upon those rules really depends on whether or not you have any agency to demand that they give them to you in some sort of reasonable timeline. But then, I mean, how the FOIA process, at least for me, works is that it's like when you get one of these documents, it's like getting a puzzle piece. of a puzzle, but you don't know what the picture is.
You just have enough information to maybe guess what the next piece might be. And so after really two years of getting these records back from the University of Connecticut, I had noticed there was an email address of someone working with this group who is located at the University of Washington.
So I sent them a FOIA, and that's ultimately how I obtained the 78-page document that really detailed this plan that Biden administration had to make gender ideology the standard in child welfare services across the country.
Let's dive in. You mentioned Soji, and you mentioned this 78-page memo, which I think are really sort of the crux of this entire story. So tell us about both of those. What's Soji, and what was this memo?
So SOGI is Sexual Orientation Gender Identity Expression. It's a lot of terms. Basically, it's really affirming gender ideology, which is the belief ultimately that you are not wholly male or female, that you could be a man or a woman based on your feelings. And so this 78-page memo document was basically the project work plan of a grant.
So kind of going back a little bit, in June 2022, the Biden administration had an executive order which specifically called for child welfare services to be affirming of LGBTQ foster care youths.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of these policies on families?
It's a little hard sometimes to discuss this stuff without using some of their terms, which I don't like to do, but it's just such a mess linguistically.
We can just clarify for our listeners, a disclaimer that Meg is occasionally going to use the radical language just to avoid... Just imagine her doing air quotes the entire time.
Yeah, air quotes. 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.
So August 2024, which is September, October, November, three months before the election, Biden administration approved, was it the full $20 million grant to these people? They awarded the grant, yep, to- which then brings us to the 78-page memo. Give us the, you know, kind of the top line of what their plan was.
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