“Birthing People” Isn’t Science. It’s Ideology — Funded by You

Just today, I watched a congressional hearing where Rep. Brandon Gill (R‑TX) questioned a witness about government grants using the term birthing people — and I couldn’t believe how absurd it’s gotten. He asked whether taxpayer dollars should be going toward studies on “women and nonbinary mathematicians,” pregnancy prevention programs for “transgender boys,” and “cross-sex steroid therapy” for so-called “transgender females.”

While not every term he used matched the official grant language exactly, the larger point is spot-on: our government is spending your money on ideology masquerading as science. And nowhere is this more obvious than in the growing use of the phrase birthing people.

Let’s be clear: women give birth. Full stop. Calling them birthing people doesn’t make us more compassionate — it makes us more confused.

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The Rise of “Birthing People” in Government-Funded Research

The term birthing people isn’t just some fringe language from activist groups. It has officially entered the language of organizations like:

• The CDC
• The NIH (National Institutes of Health)
• The American Medical Association
• And even congressional budget line items

It’s meant to include “anyone who gives birth,” like biological females who identify as male or nonbinary. But let’s be honest: it’s an erasure of women in the name of inclusion. And it’s infecting public policy and medical research at the highest levels.

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Actual Grants You’re Paying For

Let’s talk facts. These are real, documented projects that have received federal dollars:

1. Pregnancy Prevention for Transgender Boys

The NIH granted $801,000 to fund a mobile health program for “transgender boys” (biological females) to prevent pregnancy. It was an adaptation of the Girl2Girl program and rebranded as inclusive of “gender-diverse youth.”

2. Cross-Sex Steroid Therapy and Cardiovascular Risk in Transgender Females

Another NIH grant funded research into how hormone therapy affects cardiovascular risk in “transgender females” (biological males who take estrogen). The study used rodent models to simulate hormone effects.

3. The Racialized Basis of Trait Judgments from Faces

A smaller NSF grant funded a project exploring how people make trait judgments based on facial features and race. While this might sound academic, it leans heavily into DEI-style assumptions about systemic bias.

These aren’t just academic exercises. They reflect a deep shift in how our government treats gender, science, and truth — and the language in these grants reflects that shift.

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This Isn’t Compassion. It’s Confusion.

I want to be compassionate. I truly feel for people who are suffering from gender confusion, dysphoria, and identity struggles. I’ve had my own battles in life — and I understand how deeply painful it is to feel like you don’t belong in your own skin.

But the answer is not affirmation of confusion. The answer is truth.

Affirmation-only therapy tells people, “You are what you feel.” But God’s Word tells us, “You are who He made you to be.”

Romans 1 warns us about exactly this kind of cultural moment:

“They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator.”
— Romans 1:25

We’re funding lies. And we’re doing it under the guise of health and progress.

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What Brandon Gill Got Right

Was every word out of Gill’s mouth a precise match to NIH language? No. But he exposed the reality many of us have sensed for years: government-funded science is no longer neutral. It’s political. It’s ideological. And it’s often ridiculous.

• “Birthing people” is not a scientific term. It’s a linguistic lie.
• “Transgender boys” are biologically female — and can get pregnant.
• “Cross-sex steroid therapy” is a euphemism for medically induced harm in the name of identity.

We are pacifying confusion — and worse, we’re labeling it progress.

Source: Brandon Gill hearing on “birthing people” grants (Gateway Pundit)

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We Need Christian Counselors — Not Cultural Therapists

One of the biggest burdens on my heart is that people truly are suffering. Many of them are young, broken, and desperate for identity and love.

But our society doesn’t offer healing. It offers a mirror and says, “Whatever you see, we’ll call that truth.”

There are a few counselors out there — even some who aren’t Christian — who still reject the culture’s obsession with affirmation and try to deal with dysphoria from a place of truth and compassion. I thank God for them.

But what we need most are Christian counselors — men and women trained in both psychology and Scripture — who know how to walk with people through identity struggles with clarity, boldness, and love.

We don’t need to affirm people into delusion. We need to love them into clarity.

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Christians Must Stop Whispering

We need boldness in this moment. Not cruelty. Not sarcasm. But bold, Spirit-led truth telling.

• God made them male and female (Genesis 1:27). Not male, female, and evolving list of feelings.
• Women are not birthing people.
• Men do not get pregnant.
• Language matters. Truth matters. Biology matters.

And if we don’t speak, the next generation won’t even remember what reality was.

Read more: A Christian Response to Gender Ideology

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Truth in Love — Boldly Funded by Faith, Not Fear

The federal government is throwing money at research designed to affirm confusion and normalize the erasure of men, women, and biblical truth. We can’t control the budgets in D.C., but we can control what we tolerate in our churches, schools, and conversations.

It’s time to stop being afraid of cancel culture. We’re not hateful for saying a woman is a woman. We’re not bigots for saying men don’t get pregnant.

We’re Christians. And we speak truth — boldly, unfiltered, and unafraid.

Arch Kennedy
Bold, Unfiltered, and Unafraid