Santa Clara University\u2014a Jesuit institution\u2014is partnering with the county\u2019s Gender Affirming Care Clinic to place graduate therapy students in clinical training roles. Notably, the clinic serves transgender and gender-diverse youth, including children as young as five years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Naomi Epps Best, a former marriage and family therapy graduate student at the university, revealed the arrangement on social media. She criticized that graduate-level students are being taught to administer “gender-affirming” interventions to very young children, including offering free binders and affirming clothing changes, often without parental consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Best described her experience in lectures where gender ideology was explicitly the focus, saying she was warned during lectures to expect \u201cindoctrination into gender ideology.\u201d Course content portrayed gender as a fluid spectrum with numerous identities, shifting away from male and female as definitive categories. Students were taught that their role was to affirm whatever identity a child claims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She warned that this clinical partnership serves as more than just field training\u2014it embeds activism into therapy education. Counselors are being socialized to affirm a child\u2019s gender identity as policy, rather than provide neutral guidance. According to Best, this marks a radical shift in preparing clinicians for careers rooted in ideological conviction rather than therapeutic balance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Santa Clara University touted this collaboration as \u201ca significant step forward\u201d for its gender-affirming care training initiative. But for many parents and advocates, the question is why a Catholic institution is exposing children as young as five to gender-affirmation practices\u2014with no parental consent required. The partnership raises serious concerns about the direction of both education and care for vulnerable minors, and a Catholic university’s complicit role in this indoctrination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Santa Clara University\u2014a Jesuit institution\u2014is partnering with the county\u2019s Gender Affirming Care Clinic to place graduate therapy students in clinical training roles. Notably, the clinic serves transgender and gender-diverse youth, including children as young as five years old. Naomi Epps Best, a former marriage and family therapy graduate student at the university, revealed the arrangement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":263075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[804,805,514],"tags":[4861,7186,456],"class_list":["post-263071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-foreground","category-science","tag-gender-ideology","tag-lgbt-ideology","tag-transgenderism"],"yoast_head":"\n