{"id":4271,"date":"2025-08-26T15:32:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/us-health-and-human-services-agency-orders-states-to-strip-gender-from-sex-ed-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:32:46","slug":"us-health-and-human-services-agency-orders-states-to-strip-gender-from-sex-ed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/us-health-and-human-services-agency-orders-states-to-strip-gender-from-sex-ed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US Health and Human Services agency orders states to strip gender from sex ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hhs-1024x7681746476998-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Hubert H. Humphrey Building, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., as seen on Nov. 23, 2023. (Photo by Jane Norman\/States Newsroom)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Hubert H. Humphrey Building, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., as seen on Nov. 23, 2023. (Photo by Jane Norman\/States Newsroom)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s administration\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/acf.gov\/media\/press\/2025\/trump-administration-puts-46-states-and\" target=\"_blank\">demanded<\/a> Tuesday that dozens of states remove from sex education materials any references to a person\u2019s gender departing from their sex assigned at birth, or lose federal funding.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Administration for Children and Families warned in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/acf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/main\/08.26.25-Combined-PREP-Letters.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">letters<\/a> to 40 states, the District of Columbia and several territories that they could lose a total of $81.3 million in remaining federal funds for the Personal Responsibility Education Program, or PREP, if they do not get rid of these references within 60 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The policy appears to target any reference to transgender or nonbinary people. For example, in a letter to an adolescent health program specialist at Alaska\u2019s Department of Health and Social Services, the federal agency asked that a definition of transgender and related terms be deleted from school curricula.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a statement shared with States Newsroom, Laurel Powell, a spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, said the move was part of Trump\u2019s \u201call-out fight to erase government recognition of transgender people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSexual education programs, at their best, are age-appropriate, fact-based and informative at a time when young people need this information to keep themselves healthy,\u201d Powell said. \u201cWhen they do not acknowledge the existence of trans people they fail in their goal to inform, and cutting this funding denies young people the information they need to make safe, healthy, and informed decisions about their own bodies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">PREP focuses on preventing teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, and targets youth who are experiencing homelessness or in foster care, or reside in rural areas or places with high rates of teen birth, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/acf.gov\/fysb\/state-prep\" target=\"_blank\">agency<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The states that HHS sent letters to Tuesday 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Latest demand<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The demand marks the latest effort from the administration to do away with \u201cgender ideology,\u201d which the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\">administration says<\/a> includes \u201cthe idea that there is a vast spectrum of genders that are disconnected from one\u2019s sex.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">GLAAD, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, noted in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glaad.org\/fact-sheet-for-reporters-term-to-avoid-gender-ideology\/\" target=\"_blank\">fact sheet\u00a0<\/a>that \u201cgender ideology\u201d is \u201can inaccurate term deployed by opponents to undermine and dehumanize transgender and nonbinary people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The letters came less than a week after the administration terminated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/acf.gov\/media\/press\/2025\/hhs-defunds-californias-attempt-indoctrinate-children-gender-ideology\" target=\"_blank\">California\u2019s PREP grant<\/a> after refusing to remove \u201cradical gender ideology\u201d from the education materials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Failure to comply with this demand, the agency said, could result in the \u201cwithholding, suspension, or termination of federal PREP funding.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAccountability is coming,\u201d Andrew Gradison, acting assistant secretary at HHS\u2019 Administration for Children and Families, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gradison added that the administration \u201cwill ensure that PREP reflects the intent of Congress, not the priorities of the left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The effort also comes as the administration continues to crack down on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/08\/25\/trump-policy-transgender-federal-power-state-laws\" target=\"_blank\">gender-affirming care<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump signed earlier executive orders that: restrict access to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/newest-round-trump-moves-targets-federal-employees-care-transgender-kids\" target=\"_blank\">gender-affirming care<\/a> for kids; make it the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\">policy of the United States<\/a> to recognize two sexes, male and female;\u201d bar openly transgender service members from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/trump-issues-order-prohibiting-openly-transgender-service-members-military\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. military<\/a>; and ban trans women from competing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/trump-signs-executive-order-banning-transgender-athletes-womens-school-sports\" target=\"_blank\">women\u2019s sports teams<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hubert H. 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(Photo by Jane Norman\/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s administration\u00a0demanded Tuesday that dozens of states remove from sex education materials any references to a person\u2019s gender departing from their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>US Health and Human Services agency orders states to strip gender from sex ed - WestplexNews.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/us-health-and-human-services-agency-orders-states-to-strip-gender-from-sex-ed-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US Health and Human Services agency orders states to strip gender from sex ed - WestplexNews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Hubert H. 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