US Edition16 states sue the Trump administration over threats to pull funding for sex ed on gender diversity
The lawsuit challenges HHS threats to cut at least $35 million in federal grants tied to sexual education programs inclusive of gender-diverse identities, affecting 16 states and DC.
- On Friday, Sixteen states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in federal court in Oregon over threats to pull sexual education funding.
- In August, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sent letters to 46 states and territories demanding removal of `gender ideology` from PREP-funded programs or risk losing funding, with California stripped of a $12 million grant Aug. 21.
- HHS Acting Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison said the order was meant as accountability, and `Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas`.
- The complaint warns the funding termination could cost at least $35 million to the plaintiff states and argues the grant conditions violate federal law, separation of powers and Congress' spending power.
- Washington Attorney General Nick Brown said HHS threatened to cancel PREP grants over an inclusive curriculum, and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison called the choice to lose funding or exclude transgender students unacceptable.
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States Sue HHS Over Order to Remove ‘Gender Identity’ in K-12 Sex Education
A coalition of 16 states and the District of Columbia is suing the Trump administration to keep materials they say “recognize and affirm gender identity” in their federally funded K-12 sex education programs. The lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court in Oregon, is co-led by the attorneys general of Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington. At issue is an order from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that prohibits what it…
Oregon co-leads multistate lawsuit against Trump administration over threats to pull funding for sex education on gender diversity
Oregon, alongside 15 other states and the District of Columbia, sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday, alleging that its threats to pull sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities were a violation of federal law.The complaint filed in federal court in Oregon says the department is attempting to force the states to “rewrite sexual health curricula to erase entire categories of students” …
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16 states sue the Trump administration over threats to pull funding for sex ed on gender diversity
Sixteen states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over its threats to pull sexual education funding for curricula mentioning diverse gender identities.
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