The American Parents Coalition’s report highlighted examples of NASEM allegedly pushing politics.
By Catholics for Catholics
A parental rights organization is calling out a Congress-founded nonprofit network for allegedly pushing a political, woke agenda.
The American Parents Coalition, also a nonprofit, claims that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) promotes a woke ideology using taxpayer monies.
“Our biggest qualm with what they’ve been up to is, they were established by Congress as a nonprofit to be very rigorous in nature in providing STEM standards and advancing America’s STEM capabilities, and instead of these evidence-based, very academic guidelines, they’re instead moving much more into an ideological lens,” APC Executive Director Alleigh Marré told Fox News Digital.
The NASEM, which also goes by the National Academies, is a nonprofit, congressionally chartered that counsels the federal government on science, engineering and health issues. It was originally established under a congressional charter that was signed in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln.
In its recent report, APC gathered a list that allegedly shows NASEM’s pushing of politics through funding. According to the report, the NASEM funded organizations promoting “a specific climate agenda” as well as groups pushing “environmental justice.” Marré told Fox News Digital that environmental justice programs often look at climate issues “through the lens of race and socioeconomic status.”
Beyond stressing race, NASEM also promoted gender ideology, according to APC, which provided examples in its report.
When asked about some of the most notorious instances of NASEM allegedly promoting politics, Marré pointed to a 2023 workshop on transgender youth. NASEM said that the workshop, which was called “Supporting the Health and Well-Being of Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth,” was aimed at exploring “evidence-based guidance” on supporting “transgender and gender diverse youth.”
The workshop encouraged the use of “affirming pronouns” as a way to make gender diverse youth “feel respected” in a classroom setting.
“This has nothing to do with whether or not we’re training the young hearts and minds to be able to build a bridge that can withstand the load of a vehicle,” Marré said.
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