Federal authorities have given 40 states 60 days to remove references to gender identity and transgender people from a federally funded sex education curriculum or face funding cuts. The Department of Health and Human Services framed the demand as protecting children from alleged indoctrination with what it called "delusional ideology." California refused to comply and had its nearly $6 million-a-year grant terminated. Dozens of states, including Alabama, New York, and Washington, received formal notices to change curriculum content. Withholding funding represents a federal effort to influence local education policy and promote a binary view of sex as exclusively male or female.
The Trump administration is threatening to pull federal funding from 40 states for a sex education program aimed at vulnerable teens unless those states remove references in their curriculum to gender identity and transgender people. In a Tuesday press release, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the action reflected the Trump administration's "ongoing commitment to protecting children from attempts to indoctrinate them with delusional ideology."
The states that received notices to change their curriculum are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
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