Trump Dumps the UN's World Health Organization

A Win for Children and Families Everywhere!

President Trump just defunded the World Health Organization—again. He did the same thing the last time he took office. This is a huge win for the children of the world and their parents.

Trump’s hasty withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) this time around was likely spurred by the WHO’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and by the possibility of a WHO Pandemic Treaty that critics say could essentially handcuff governments around the world in the event of a global “emergency.”

But the same old rotten reasons to abandon the WHO are still around and are still reeking like sewage from a deep, dark pit.

Sex for Kids

The World Health Organization (WHO)—one of the original UN entities launched in the late 1940s—is an avid supporter of “sexual rights” for children and comprehensive sexuality education. Comprehensive sexuality education is based on the concept that children have “sexual rights” that must be upheld and protected.

Comprehensive sexuality education programs teach children to seek out sexual information, question their parents’ moral teaching, and engage in sexually arousing behavior from an early age. They also deemphasize the need for love and commitment in sexual relationships and frame abortion as a human right. To be clear, we’re not talking about just teaching children the biological logistics of sex and how to avoid sexual disease. We’re talking about full scale promotion of all kinds of sex for all ages of people (see here.)

The WHO’s name and logo appears on the front cover of UNESCO’S “International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education” published in January 2018. This document—posted on the WHO website—is laced with references to childhood sexuality, including these statements:

• “[Young] people want and need sexuality and sexual health information as early and comprehensively as possible.”

• Children should have “agency in their own sexual practices and relationships.”

• Comprehensive Sexuality Education can “help children … form respectful and healthy relationships with … sexual partners.”

More Sex for Kids

The 2009 version* of UNESCO’s “International Guidelines on Sexuality Education,” officially endorsed by the WHO, was intended to guide comprehensive sexuality education programs in schools globally. It included these statements:

Learning Objectives for Level I (ages 5-8):

• “Girls and boys have private body parts that can feel pleasurable when touched by oneself.”

• “Touching and rubbing one’s genitals is called masturbation.”

• “Masturbation is not harmful, but should be done in private.”

• “All people regardless of their health status, religion, origin, race or sexual status can raise a child and give it the love it deserves.”

Learning Objectives for Level II (ages 9-12):

• “Relationship between excitement and vaginal lubrication, penile erection and ejaculation.”

• “Many boys and girls begin to masturbate during puberty.”

• “Steps for proper use of condoms.”

• “Definition and function of orgasm.”

• “Legal abortion performed under sterile conditions by medically trained personnel is safe.”

Learning Objectives for Level III (ages 12-15):

• “Respect for the different sexual orientations and gender identity.”

• “Definition, reasons for, and legality of abortion.”

• “Health risks associated respectively with safe and legal abortion, and with illegal and unsafe abortion.”

• “Definition and description of the physical changes and stages of male and female human sexual response including orgasm.”

• “Sexual behaviours include kissing, touching, talking, caressing, oral intercourse and penetration.”

Even More Sex for Kids

The WHO has partnered with International Planned Parenthood Federation—a global abortion promoter and advocate for sexual rights for children—on a wide range of projects for years. International Planned Parenthood’s 2011 document, “Exclaim! Young People’s Guide to ‘Sexual Rights: An IPPF declaration’” makes these statements:

• “Young people are sexual beings. … It is important for all young people around the world to be able to explore, experience and express their sexualities in healthy, positive, pleasurable and safe ways. This can only happen when young people’s sexual rights are guaranteed.”

• “Sexuality and sexual pleasure are important parts of being human for everyone — no matter what age, no matter if you’re married or not and no matter if you want to have children or not.”

• “There is a common misconception that young people are not or should not be sexual beings with the exception of certain groups, such as married young people or young people above a certain age. Sexuality is a central aspect of being human during all phases of each person’s life.”

Notice the phrases “no matter what age” and “at all phases of each person’s life,” which appear to make no exception nor distinction for anyone—even toddlers or babies.

A Grand Finale: Let’s Legalize Prostitution Worldwide

And in case you need any more reasons to dislike this morally bankrupt entity, the WHO supports decriminalizing prostitution or “sex work.” In fact, at DecriminalizeSex.Work, the WHO is listed as an official supporter of the decriminalization cause. Despite the insistence by some loud voices that decriminalizing sex work will result in rosy outcomes for sex workers and for society at large, that claim has been thoroughly debunked by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (here) and elsewhere.

With all this in mind, a standing ovation might be in order for the Trump administration and any other administration with the political will to distance itself from the United Nations’ World Health Organization.

*After public protest, these guidelines were later somewhat modified, but the original guidelines still remain posted on the UNHRC website.