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HHS Orders California to Remove Gender-Identity Content From Federally Funded Sex Education

The Administration for Children and Families determined that teaching concepts of gender identity falls outside the program’s legally defined scope.

Overview

  • California’s federally funded Personal Responsibility Education Program must remove all references to gender identity within 60 days or risk loss of federal funding.
  • HHS’s Administration for Children and Families flagged lessons introducing transgender, genderqueer and nonbinary identities as outside the program’s authorizing statute focused on abstinence, contraception and STD prevention.
  • Acting Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison said the gender ideology content exceeds the program’s legal authority and undermines parental oversight of classroom instruction.
  • After removing the flagged material, California must resubmit its curriculum for approval to maintain its PREP grant.
  • The Department of Health and Human Services is also investigating other state PREP grant recipients to ensure compliance with federal funding rules.