DOGE Urged to Probe Nonprofit that Received $22 Million in Govt Grants to Teach Kids About Sex Toys

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is being urged to look into a nonprofit that claims to research how children are having sex while sending them detailed instructions without parental knowledge.

The nonprofit Center for Innovative Public Health Research (CIPHR) has received more than $22 million in federal grants since 2016 to teach kids about sex toys as well as lesbian and transgender sex, all while explicitly discouraging children to tell their parents about it.

DOGE: This Nonprofit Got $22 Million in Government Grants to Teach Kids About Sex Toys. The Center for Innovative Public Health Research uses taxpayer dollars for deviant projects.

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City Journal reports that CIPHR’s website boasts that the organization creates “health education programs” that “promote positive human development.”

One program, launched in 2017 and run by CIPHR, says it’s a “sex ed program just for teen girls who are into girls.”

The program’s website encourages users, shown by one study to be primarily between ages 14 and 16, to sign up for “daily text messages . . . about things like sex with girls and boys.”

According to City Journal, the website texts those minors who sign up with messages about “lube and sex toys,” as well as “the different types of sex and ways to increase pleasure,” and “what it’s like growing up as [a] teen girl who is into girls.”

It also encourages participants to make their “own decision[s] about whether to take part in the research” and directly counsels them not to tell their parents, if they’d prefer not to.

CIPHR CEO Michele Ybarra, in a 2022 Brown University webinar, described how her researchers prepare young participants for her focus groups.

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— Hannah Grossman (@grossmanhannah) April 9, 2025

It’s questionable when taxpayers are forced to subsidize programs that promote and send sexually explicit messages to teens.

But when minors are being explicitly advised to conceal that content from their parents, the CIPHR research takes on a predatory tone.

The Department of Health and Human Services is being encouraged to immediately cancel CIPHR’s active contract and to deny its future grant applications.