<p>The federal government is spending a quarter of a million taxpayer dollars to <a href="https://www.transrurallives.org/about-trl">celebrate</a> &#8220;transrural&#8221; Americans — older people who live in rural areas and identify as transgender.</p>
<p>The National Endowment for the Humanities <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_RZ30005024_4340">granted</a> $247,000 for &#8220;The TransRural Lives Project,&#8221; a &#8220;digital storytelling project exploring and celebrating the lives of transgender older adults who live in or have strong ties to rural areas and small towns in the Pacific Northwest.&#8221; The program is run by professors from Central Washington University in conjunction with <a href="https://www.helen-house.org/">Helen House</a>, an organization that operates out of a residential home and invites children as young as 13 to meetups.</p>
<p>“Helen House gives power to, and validates, SOGIE youth and young adults ages 13 to 24, fostering self-exploration, self-expression, and self-acceptance,” the organization’s website reads.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump recently signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-protects-civil-rights-and-merit-based-opportunity-by-ending-illegal-dei/">executive order</a> intended to purge diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) from the federal government and end any federal spending in support of the DEI agenda in academia and the private sector. A spokesman for Central Washington University told The Daily Wire that the federal funding for the &#8220;TransRural Lives Project&#8221; has not been affected, however.</p>
<p>The three-year project, which won the federal contract at the tail end of the Biden administration, is <a href="https://www.transrurallives.org/people">helmed</a> by M. Eliatamby-O&#8217;Brien, an Associate Professor in Central Washington University&#8217;s English Department who uses “they/them” pronouns. “Their research focuses on the experiences of gender, sexual, and racially-minoritized forced migrants through engagement with digital life narratives, digital storytelling, and multimodal rhetorics,” Brian’s biography reads.</p>
<p>The project has already collected the stories of multiple men who identify as women and live in the Pacific Northwest. “Veronica Steed is a 65-year-old white, crossdresser who came out around 2000,” <a href="https://www.transrurallives.org/stories/veronica">one story</a> reads, with another biography focusing on Elior, “an activist whose been feeling pretty burnt out for a few years now.”</p>
<p>The National Endowment for the Humanities did not respond to a request for comment. Central Washington University declined to comment.</p>
<p>This isn’t the first time the federal government has allocated taxpayer dollars to far-left, pro-transgender causes. The Department of Agriculture agreed to spend $50,000 of taxpayer money on an organization that works to “diversify the outdoors” by hosting LGBT-specific wilderness conservation trips for teenagers, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-government-set-to-pay-50k-to-encourage-lgbt-teen-wilderness-conservation-efforts">reported</a>. And the Department of Health and Human Services approved a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-government-to-spend-700k-on-trans-inclusive-sex-ed-for-14-year-olds">$700,000 grant</a> to create “an inclusive teen pregnancy program for transgender boys.”</p>
<p>“Youth who are assigned female at birth … are at risk for negative sexual health outcomes yet are effectively excluded from sexual health programs because gender-diverse youth do not experience the cisgender, heteronormative teen sexual education messaging available to them as salient or applicable,” the award description reads.</p>

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