Did Tammy Baldwin fund a transgender clinic for teenagers?

No.

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., directed $400,000 in 2024 federal spending to Briarpatch Youth Companies, a Madison, Wisconsin-area nonprofit.

Republican Eric Hovde, Baldwin’s opponent within the Nov. 5 election, alluded to the earmark in claiming that Baldwin “gave all of our cash to a transgender clinic … that does this with out notifying mother and father.”

Briarpatch gives counseling, shelter, job help and different providers to runaway and homeless youths.  

It is not a transgender clinic.

Briarpatch says its Teenagers Like Us program helps “queer youth ages 13-18.”

Fox Information’ March report on the earmark mentioned Briarpatch’s web site mentioned purchasers didn’t want parental permission to affix Teenagers Like Us.

A Wall Road Journal op-ed reported that after the Fox Information report, Briarpatch faraway from its web site references to clothes that assist transgender individuals adapt their look to their gender id.

Briarpatch informed Wisconsin Watch it modified its web site to guard youth security.

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Sources

U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee: Neighborhood Challenge Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending

U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee: 2024 Labor, Well being and Human Companies, Schooling, and Associated Companies

Briarpatch Youth Companies: About

Fox Information: Have Venezuelan gang members made it to Wisconsin?

Briarpatch Youth Companies: Teenagers Like Us LGBTQIA2s+

Fox Information: Hundreds of thousands for late-term abortion clinic, transgender units buried deep in $1.2T spending package deal

Google Docs: Wall Road Journal opinion article 9/13/24

Newsweek: Did Mike Johnson Approve Funding to Give Transgender Teenagers Clothes?

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Tammy Baldwin pushes again on GOP criticism of funds for group that helps at-risk youth