The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote the Trump administration recently to express support for federal grant restrictions concerning gender ideology and abortion.
The USCCB also urged changes to proposed rules they say could hinder charitable work with migrants and weaken religious liberty protections.
In a July 8 letter to the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Federal Financial Management, the bishops endorsed several provisions in the administration’s proposed overhaul of federal grant regulations, including measures aimed at preventing taxpayer dollars from funding gender ideology and abortion-related activities.
The letter was first reported by EWTN News.
The bishops said they “fully support” a provision barring federal funds from being used to deny the biological sex binary or promote the idea that sex is “a chosen or mutable characteristic.”
The letter also praised the proposal’s prohibition on using federal funds for gender-transition procedures but urged OMB to strengthen it by extending the restriction to adults as well as minors and explicitly covering “social transition” efforts, particularly in schools.
