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16 States and D.C. Sue HHS Over Threat to Cut Sex-Ed Funds Tied to Gender-Identity Lessons

The suit argues HHS unlawfully rewrote grant terms by conditioning teen pregnancy-prevention funds on removing gender-identity content.

FILE - President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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New York uses PREP funding to support contracts with seven community-based organizations, providing sex education initiatives that serve about 2,000 young people a yea

Overview

  • The coalition filed in federal court in Portland, seeking to block HHS from conditioning or terminating PREP and Title V SRAE grants over what the agency calls “gender ideology.”
  • HHS notified 46 states that they had 60 days to remove gender-identity references from curricula or risk losing funding, according to letters cited by the plaintiffs.
  • California’s roughly $12 million PREP grant was terminated on Aug. 21 after the state declined to revise its materials.
  • The complaint estimates the plaintiff states could lose at least $35 million if the policy proceeds, with Oregon, Washington and Minnesota leading the case.
  • Colorado joined the lawsuit, and attorneys general warned the policy would force exclusion of transgender and gender-diverse students from sex education programs.