Some people claim that DIE stands for Diversity Inclusion and Equity. But in this article, we will explain why DIE really stands for kids dying, families dying and our economy dying.
We have spent a lot of time providing evidence that the Trans Drug Cult is killing kids with mental health problems by the tens of thousands. In addition, we have provided evidence that allowing males to participant in Girls sports severely deprives millions of girls of the right to fair sports competition. Yet despite these facts, many well-meaning people are hestitant to confront Trans Drug Promoters because they are afraid of being labeled as “insensitive” to the wishes and demands of Trans Cult members. Many simply lack the courage to tell the truth. Therefore, in this article, we will review some of the largely hidden but very real financial costs of the Trans DIE Drug Cult.
Estimating the percent of Gender Confused students in Washington state
The financial cost of the Trans Drug Cult depends in part on the number of Trans students here in Washington state. We have previously referred to Gallup Polls. But the 2023 CDC survey results for middle school and high school students have now been posted. Here is the link:
https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/results/2023-yrbs-results.html
Here is a quote: “For the first time, the 2023 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) asked students whether they identify as transgender (those whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth). Students' responses support comprehensive lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) youth data. “
Here is a link to their 106 page report published on October 10, 2024:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/su/pdfs/su7304-H.pdf
Here is a rather confusing summary of their survey results:
In 2023, 73.3% of 20,000 students who completed the questionnaire self-identified as heterosexual, 4.0% as gay or lesbian, 11.4% as bisexual, and 4.4% as questioning; 4.3% responded with “I describe my sexual identity some other way,” and 2.5% responded with “I do not know what this question is asking. Another 2,000 students (10%) failed to answer the question at all. However,one of the survey tables indicated that, of those who completed the survey, 4.7% were questioning and 4.5% were Transgender. See for example the bottom of page 43. In a different area, the report stated that nationally, 3.3% of adolescents identify as transgender and an additional 2.2% are questioning whether they identify as transgender.
Table 2 on page 55 reveals some of the confusion.
4% of Cisgender straight students reported being questioning and 3% trans. Meanwhile 9 percent of Trans students reported being straight and only 20% of questioning students reported being questioning:
Transgender identity was categorized as transgender for those who responded, “Yes, I am transgender,” to the question, “Some people describe themselves as transgender when their sex at birth does not match the way they think or feel about their gender. Are you transgender?” Cisgender students are those who responded, “No, I am not transgender.” Questioning students are those who responded, “I am not sure if I am transgender.”
65% of Trans students reported poor mental health compared to 18% of straight students. 25% of Trans students and 25% of Questioning students attempted to commit suicide in the previous year compared to 5% of straight students. Only 13% of straight students reporting experiencing ≥4 ACEs while 39% of Trans students reported experienced ≥4 ACEs.
Based on the above, and considering the latest gallup poll on Transgenderism, my estimate is that about 5% of students in Washington state suffer from gender confustion. I used the term gender confusion because scientifically, being a Transgender person is not physically possible. Males are still males and females are still females regardless of the drugs they are taking, the clothes they are wearing, the pronouns they are using or how they color their hair.
Given that we have 400,000 middle to high school students in Washington state, 5% would be about 20,000 gender confused kids being brain washed by the Trans Drug Cult leaders (aka Bob Ferguson and Chris Reykdal).
Depending on the brand, toxic puberty blockers can run from $20,000 to $50,000 per year. A child given these drugs at age nine, to supposedly help them deal with their mental health problems, might be on them for several years. Typically, the child’s family can not afford these puberty blockers. So, here in Washington, the bill is paid for either directly by the taxpayers or indirectly by requiring health insurance plans to pay for these drugs. Naturally, health care companies have to pass the costs on to their other subscribers – which is a primary reason why health insurance monthly payments have been skyrocketing in recent years.
Eventually, if the child/victim hasn’t committed suicide first (because these toxic drugs actually make a child’s mental health problems worse), the child/victim is put on cross sex hormones which also cost $30,000 or more per year. Here is a link to a study that concluded the average cost was between $34,000 to $43,000 per year:
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2015/study-paying-for-transgender-health-care-cost-effective
The Trans Cult victim/member might be taking these drugs for 30 years or more – for a total cost of $1 million or more.
Tack on another $100,00 for gender mutilation surgery and that is why I estimate that each child victim of the Trans Drug Cult will cost tax payers and health insurance payers a million dollars or more.
Here is a link to an article which also concluded that the cost of Transgenderism was about $1 million per Cult member:
https://kimmonson.com/featured_articles/the-1-million-cost-per-person-for-gender-transition/
So if there are 20,000 kids here in Washington state who have been or will be brainwashed into secretly joining the Trans Drug Cult, at a million dollars each, the total cost we will all wind up paying just here in Washington state will be over 20,000 million dollars – which is over $20 billion dollars. Of course, this is just the obvious initial cost.
Lawsuits are already taking place by “detransitioners” whose lives have been destroyed by the Trans Drug Cult. Right now, they are suing doctors. But given that our schools are among the primary promoters of the Trans Drug Cult, it is only a matter of time until our schools start to be sued for the harm they inflicted in kids by lying to them in claiming that it was possible for a boy to turn into a girl simply by taking a pile of drugs.
Assuming that half of the Trans victims sue the schools, and get a million dollar settlement, school districts here in Washington might eventually be on the hook for another $5 billion.
We should also include the cost of the Trans Gestapo Coordinators – required to be hired by every school in Washington state in order to attack any student or teacher who says anything bad about the Trans Drug Cult. We have about 2000 schools which equals 2000 Trans Cops times $100,000 each equals $200 million per year. There is also Trans Teacher Training – which is a full day session for about 60,000 teachers – often at some big building with a free lunch. At about $100 per teacher, we have another $6 million.
Then there are the new school based health clinics – paid for with a combination of school funds, federal funds and insurance company funds. Ultimately the source for all of these funds is YOU. We now have about 70 of these year in Washington state -but the number is rising rapidly. So it may already be over 100. Each one has to cost at least $1 million per year. So there is another $100 million.
There are also about 100 private clinics passing out trans drugs “like candy.” (These are not my words, they are the words of a Trans Drug doctor from a couple of years ago). At at least $1 million per year for each of these drug distribution centers and we have another $100 million.
We also need to add the cost of increased crime associated with getting kids addicted to toxic transgender drugs. The longest 20 year followup study on this problem by researchers in Sweden found that people who who were give Trans drugs and Trans surgery were not only much more likely to commit suicide, they were also much more likely to abuse drugs and commit violent crimes later in life (because giving them drugs makes their mental health problems worse.
The study found that 1.4 percent of the controls (people with mental health problems but given only counseling (no drugs or surgery) committed a violet crime. While this is much grreater than the general population, it is much less than the Trans group where 3.6% eventually committed one or more violent crimes. Here is the link to this study:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885
Here is the Table from this study:
So we can expect a rapid rise in our violent crime rate here in Washington state over the next 20 years – with the violent crime rate likely to double.
Annual Cost of violent crime in Washington state
Here is a link to a 593 page report by the Washington State Sheriffs Association
https://www.waspc.org/assets/CJIS/Crime%20in%20Washington%202022-compressed.pdf
$700 million in property was stolen and only $200 million recovered for a loss of $500 million.
Another $35 million was lost due to arson.
Another $142 million was lost due to vandalism.
There was no cost estimate for all the murders and the drug epidemic we are currently in. But Seattle is leading the nation in drug overdoses for the past few years.
Washington state also spends about one billion a year on its state and county prison systems. Thus, the total current cost of crime in our state is about $2 billion per year. So doubling the amount of violent crime due to the Trans Drug cult will add another $2 billion per year.
The total cost in Washington state of all of the above Trans Drug Cult costs is likely close to $30 billion. There are 25 states that have completely banned the Trans Drug Cartel (including Tennessee law that was just reviewed by the US Supreme Court). But that still leaves 25 states pushing Trans Drugs on kids. At $30 billion per state, the total is around $750 billion.
But the time has come to look at some of the more hidden costs of the Trans DIE Cult. On December 12, 2024, a national Parents rights group named Parents Defending Education released a report documenting that in just the past couple of years, the Biden adminstration has given away more than a billion dollars in “DIE” grants.
Here is a link to their report: https://defendinged.org/investigations/granted/?vcrmeid=uKZLwu8BZk29SAYQldO9oQ&vcrmiid=Zkg-tplpUEmZQKWgaVrwJA
Warning: If you are an actual tax payer (as opposed to an illegal alien), you may want to keep a barf bag handy BEFORE opening this link!
This was not all of the money passed out by the Biden administration. This was merely the bribes issued by the US Department of Education.
By the way, before we get to the stolen federal tax funds, we should spend a moment reviewing who works at the US Department of Education. They pay an average of about $150,000 per year to about 40,000 people. But a recent survey found that less than 6% of these people go to their office. So only 2,400 of these people actually “work” at the Department of Education. The other 37,600 are simply collecting DIE paychecks. This comes to a half billion per year in robbing us tax payers. Over four years, this amount comes to two billion dollars - which is double the amount of robbery in te Parents Defending Education report.
Nevertheless, here is the summary from the PDE report:
Total ED Grant Money Awarded (2021-present): $1,002,522,304.81
Total number of ED grants (2021-present): 229
Number of States: 42 plus Washington D.C.
Number of K-12 school districts*: 296
Number of K-12 students*: 6,766,158
*These numbers are based on available data and not exact. The number of of districts and students is likely much higher.
We have broken the grants down into three buckets:
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Hiring: $489,883,797.81
- This category includes DEI or race-based recruiting, training, and hiring practices. Read more about DEI Hiring in K-12 here.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Programming: $343,337,286
- This category includes general DEI programming and trainings, discipline including restorative practices, and youth activism.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Based Mental health/Social Emotional Learning (SEL): $169,301,221
- This category includes DEI based mental health training programs and SEL trainings and programming. Learn more about SEL here.
Here is an example of the DIE money laundering:
The School District of Philadelphia was given $3,973,175 for its restorative justice program that is modeled after Oakland Unified School District’s (CA), and a program advisor is a far-left activist and former Communist Party USA member.
From 2021 to the present, the Department of Education (ED) awarded to universities, school districts, and nonprofits 162 grants totaling $1,002,522,304.81. This report only captures grants that specifically included diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), restorative practices, and/or youth activism as part of the programming.
In 2023, Montgomery County Schools was awarded a grant of $21,508,841 for a program called Teacher and Principal Effectiveness Acceleration in Montgomery (TEAM). In order to improve student achievement, the district states that it will provide professional learning to its staff such as a “monthly Teaching-In Color PD, designed to build teachers and school leaders’ ability to support diverse students through equitable instructional and disciplinary practices to increase student achievement and decrease incidences of inequitable disciplinary practices.”
Additionally, as part of the district’s “Diversity and Inclusion Plan,” it established race-based Teacher Affinity Groups (TAG) for “Black and Hispanic teachers who meet monthly to discuss mutual concerns and provide support for one another.”
Ypsilanti Community Schools (MI) received a total commitment of $15,524,948 in grant funding from the Department of Education for its SEEK: Supporting Educator Excellence & Knowledge program.
On February 26, 2024, the school board approved the use of SEEK program funds for a $40,896 contract for a “robotics and software tool” to assist “teachers in reflecting on their practice” and to “level-up their ability to leverage Swivl Solutions to deepen their reflection and coaching practices.” Here are the grant accomplices here in Washington state:
Seattle University – $605,531
- Tacoma Public Schools – $630,956
- University of Washington – $226,287
- University of Washington – $910,119
- Vancouver School District – $1,726,793
The University of Washington Tacoma (UWT), in partnership with Kent, Puyallup, and Tacoma School Districts, will implement a five-year Mental Health Professionals Demonstration Grant program entitled Project EXPAND: Expanding the Roles of School Psychologists as Equity- Centered Leaders in Mental Health.
If you want to read about some of these grants, you can read the summaries on this page:
https://www.ed.gov/grants-and-programs/grants-birth-grade-12/safe-supportive-schools/mental-health-service-professional-demonstration-grant-program#Prior-Year-Awards
Among the wonderful ideas being funded by these grants includes:“Increasing the number of school-based Mental Health Service Providers (MHSPs) trained to provide school-based mental health services in high-need schools; “
The last thing we need is more school based health clinics.
Here is the Seattle University $600,000 grant which is based on racial hiring practices:
“Washington State faces a youth mental health crisis. While most K-12 students receive mental health services through their school, there is a severe shortage of providers in the state. Exacerbating this challenging situation, educators and school-based mental health professionals are unlikely to represent the students they serve demographically, widening the gaps in service delivery. The Puget Sound Partnership to Expand and Diversify the Mental Health Service Professional Pipeline, designed to accelerate an equity-based training pipeline, will expand the capacity of high-need local education agencies (LEAs) (Absolute Priority) by 1) training and credentialing 96 highly capable school psychologists/school counselors, and 2) further diversify these two professions by recruiting and graduating students from diverse backgrounds.”
The University of Washington got over $1 million for the following racial hiring scheme.
“Objectives of the project are: 1. Increase the number of qualified school mental health (SMH) service professionals (SMHSPs) from diverse backgrounds who work in high-need LEAs… UW will provide conditional grants of $30,000 to 100 2nd year MSW students at the five schools of social work in Washington from 2023-2024 through 2027-2028.”
In plain English, the UW will give scholarships not based on merit or some objective test results, but based purely on the color of a person’s skin. White students need not apply. If this is not racial discrimination, I do not know what is.
The Most Harmful Cost of the Trans DIE Drug Cult
It is disturbing that over a billion tax dollars has been spent on money laundering programs designed to brainwash students into thinking that the only thing that matters is the color of a person’s skin. But the most harmful cost of the Trans DIE Drug Cult is the effect that Race based hiring practice will have on our economy. It greatly increases the odds that an unqualified person will be placed in a position of great responsibility.
Here in Washington state, we have seen what can happen when an unqualified person is hired to run the Employment Security Department because they were a “friend” of Jay Inslee. Hackers were able to steal $650 million dollars.
If skin color becomes the key factor of advancement, a person might literally become Vice President of the United States based purely on the color of their skin. Such a person might be so crazy that they think it is a good idea to give free Trans Drugs and Sex Change operations to murderers in federal prison so that they can then transfer to female prisons and assault the women serving time in those prisons. Imagine if such a person was even “appointed” to run for President without getting a single vote in a Presidential Primary- and then given more than a billion dollars by Trans drug corporations to try to buy their way into office!
I know this sounds crazy. But it could happen. We therefore need to organize politically to oppose the Trans DIE Drug Cult. We need to have the courage to speak the truth about the war between good and evil that is currently being waged against parents and children by the corrupt leaders of the Trans DIE drug cult. The future of our kids and the future of our country depends on it.
As always, I look forward to your questions and comments.
Regards,
David Spring M. Ed.
Washington Parents Network