The Department of Homeland Security’s Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Grant Program is intended to give money to U.S.–based organizations to help them “establish or enhance capabilities to prevent targeted violence and terrorism.”

However, because one of its “priorities” includes “Advancing Equity in Awards and Engaging Underserved Communities in Prevention,” Biden’s DHS, which runs the program, thought it necessary to award more than half a million dollars to a far-left activist LGBTQ+ group that targets kids. (READ MORE: Groff Gives Teacher a Second Chance Against the Pronoun Police)

The DHS didn’t even pretend that the money would actually be used to prevent “terrorism.” While organizations like Xavier University were DHS states to set up training protocols or implement widespread media campaigns to make individuals more aware of dangerous or violent extremism, the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) is not even under those kinds of generous restrictions in spending the money.

According to the DHS’s summary of the grant, the organization will use the funds to “address the risk of violence and negative mental health outcomes faced by LGBTQ+ youth in D.C. and Montgomery County, MD…. The project will provide in-school support for LGBTQ+ youth, training for school staff and youth service providers, resilience programming for LGBTQ+ youth ages 6-24, and support for parents and caregivers.”

Ties to Leftist Organizations That Want to Abolish Police

SMYAL also has close ties to movements aimed at overthrowing society. Ben Johnson, a senior editor at the Washington Stand, reported last week that, according to SMYAL’s 990 forms, members of the group lead the Washington, D.C., branch of the Gender & Sexualities Alliance (GSA).

Founded in San Francisco in the late 1990s, GSA hosts after-school social and activist clubs for LGBTQ students. According to the organization, these students “have emerged as vehicles for deep social change related to racial, gender, and educational justice.”

The organization’s Advisor Handbook counsels students:

The patriarchy, which most of our society is modeled after, clearly outlines the prescribed definition of gender and its resulting impacts. The gender binary (man on one side and woman on the other, with little wiggle room) has been used to limit us when it comes to our gender assigned at birth, as well as our gender identity and presentation as we grow up. When young people cross these invisible lines, they are often punished and experience violence.

A few years ago, GSA published a manifesto based on “the Black Panther Party’s Ten-Point Program, the Young Lord’s 12 Point Program and Platform, and the Third World Gay Revolution.” The Black Panther Party was a California-based civil rights movement that rejected the peaceful tenets of Martin Luther King Jr.’s agenda and “advocated the use of violence and guerilla tactics to overthrow the U.S. government,” according to FBI documents. (READ MORE from Aubrey Gulick: Indeed Jumps on the Woke Bandwagon)

GSA’s manifesto comprises nine points, including “the right to self-determination,” “the abolition of the police, ICE, borders and the judicial system,” “decolonization and reparations for all indigenous and black peoples,” “comprehensive education,” “an end to global white supremacy,” and “land justice and environmental justice.”

Meg Kilgannon, senior fellow for educational studies at the Family Research Council, told the Washington Stand:

[T]he national security industrial complex is too big and too focused on perceived threats to government from American citizens rather than on actual national security threats: cyberattacks on public schools and other organizations; lawlessness at the border; child trafficking rings; drug trafficking rings — all with international ties.

SMYAL’s close connections to organizations like GSA, as well as its commitment to indoctrinating susceptible school-age children and young adults, are concerning. But perhaps most disappointing is the Biden administration’s use of tax dollars to fund harmful organizations while targeting well-meaning Americans — like Moms for Liberty — who simply want to protect their kids.