EXPOSED: Biden’s Radical Child Welfare Operatives Had Blueprint to Tear Families Apart

Liberty Check

• Biden admin funneled millions to radical university group pushing transgender ideology on child welfare systems nationwide
• UConn activists trained foster workers to collect sexual data on children and coached kids on hiding gender transitions from parents
• Secret training modules taught federal staff that doctors “assign” gender at birth — part of systematic plan to undermine parental rights

When the Biden administration needed shock troops to transform America’s child welfare system, they turned to a radical university group with a proven track record of tearing families apart over gender ideology.

The University of Connecticut’s National Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression (SOGIE) Center secured a subcontract under a staggering $20 million federal grant to create Biden’s own SOGIE Institute. This wasn’t just bureaucratic reshuffling — it was the weaponization of taxpayer dollars against traditional families.

The UConn activists weren’t newcomers to this fight. They had spent years pioneering programs that re-educated parents to support their children’s gender transitions, helped LGBT-identifying youth find “chosen affirming families” to replace their biological parents, and trained social workers to interrogate children about their sexuality.

Angela Weeks and Marlene Matarese, two key figures who would lead Biden’s SOGIE Institute, cut their teeth radicalizing child welfare through an earlier initiative that received $10 million in federal funding. Their mission was clear: embed gender ideology so deeply into the system that parental authority becomes obsolete.

Internal emails obtained through public records requests reveal the shocking extent of their indoctrination efforts. In one exchange, Weeks explained to a federal staff member the concept of “sex assigned at birth” — rejecting biological reality in favor of ideological fiction.

“Sex assigned at birth is when folks add female/male to birth certificates. When people say, ‘it’s a girl’ or ‘it’s a boy,’ they are assigning gender,” Weeks wrote, coaching federal employees to adopt language that denies the existence of biological sex.

The activists didn’t stop at training bureaucrats. They created resources designed to coach children on circumventing parental consent.

A “Coming Out With Care” guidebook published by the National SOGIE Center in fall 2025 warns youth they “may lose family members” who have been exposed to “misinformation” about sexual orientation and gender identity. The guide instructs children to research local consent laws to discover if they can make “medical decisions” without telling their parents.

“Research if there is an age of consent law that lets youth (in some states, this may be between ages 12 to 18) make certain medical decisions without parental consent,” the guide instructs vulnerable children.

Think about that for a moment: federal tax dollars funded materials that explicitly encourage minors to seek life-altering medical interventions behind their parents’ backs.

The group also pushed the widely debunked narrative that “affirming” a child’s transgender identity protects them from self-harm — a talking point that has been used to justify removing children from homes where parents refuse to facilitate medical transitions.

After President Trump took office, UConn suddenly scrubbed its website of links to LGBT-affirming resources and the National SOGIE Center. The Innovations Institute deactivated pages showcasing their radical programs, though archived versions remain accessible.

The university refused to respond to multiple requests for comment about their current involvement with the National SOGIE Center.

But the work continues. The Human Rights Campaign announced in May 2025 that it was transferring its child welfare program to the National SOGIE Center, ensuring the infrastructure built under Biden would survive the administration that created it.

This is part four of an ongoing investigation into how the Biden administration systematically worked to enshrine transgender ideology into federal child welfare policy. Previous reporting revealed how Biden officials laid groundwork for a second-term push to permanently transform these systems, developed controversial rules requiring foster parents to “affirm” children’s gender identities, and scrambled to manufacture data supporting their radical agenda.

The collaboration between UConn activists and federal bureaucrats represents something more sinister than policy disagreement. It’s evidence of a coordinated effort to use the power of the state to override parental rights, indoctrinate children in radical gender ideology, and punish families who refuse to comply.

These weren’t rogue actors — they were official contractors implementing official policy with official funding. They trained the trainers, wrote the manuals, and built the institutional framework to fundamentally transform how America’s child welfare system views the family.

The question now is how much of this infrastructure can be dismantled, and how many other activist groups remain embedded in federal agencies, quietly advancing the same agenda under different names.

Our children deserve protection from ideological capture, not indoctrination funded by their parents’ tax dollars.