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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 threat comes after California refused to change its curriculum last week and Health and Human Services terminated the state’s nearly $6 million-a-year grant.
Closer to home
In Tennessee, the grant funds serve youth in residential treatment centers and juvenile justice settings, as well as support programs at resource centers, according to a Tennessee Department of Children’s Services report. The state risks losing close to $2.3 million in remaining funds if it does not remove references to gender ideology in its educational materials, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a press release.