The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services gave more than $176,000 over three years to the Gender and Sexuality Development Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to create a series of transgender therapy training workshops.
The webinars and in-person training have been taken by more than 1,800 mental health providers and educators between 2018–2022.
According to a story first reported by Reagan Reese and Megan Brock of the Daily Caller News Foundation, since 2017, CHOP provided at least 33 trainings in 15 schools, with Pennsbury School District donating $1,200 to CHOP in 2022 for professional development sessions that taught K–12 educators how to create “gender inclusive and affirming educational environments.” In 2021, CHOP provided a training to Southern Lehigh School District which advised educators to allow students “room for exploration” of their gender….