US Health and Human Services agency orders states to strip gender from sex ed

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration demanded Tuesday that dozens of states remove from sex education materials any references to a person’s gender departing from their sex assigned at birth, or lose federal funding.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families warned in letters 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.

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’s Department of Health and Social Services, the federal agency asked that a definition of transgender and related terms be deleted from school curricula.

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’s “all-out fight to erase government recognition of transgender people.”

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/08/26/repub/us-health-and-human-services-agency-orders-states-to-strip-gender-from-sex-ed/

[Skittles]

1. fucking ridiculous

they want to ERASE these folk

reminds me of the GESTAPO

[UTUSN]

2. What is the pathology of these cristo-fascists to be so interested in other people's sex (lives, education)

and supposedly being so against governmental infringement of (THEIR) freedom, then turning around and practicing contrarywise?

[TommyT139]

3. It's vile, but it won't work.

Trans people existed long before any mention of us in sex ed.

All the rethugs are doing is segregating youth into groups of who (children, youth, and ideally parents)
1) has enough access to sane, complete information to make choices around mental, physical, and sexual health that trend in the direction of life --
versus
2) those who don't, can't, or won't learn about the diversity of people's lives, whether in school, at church, online, or through popular media -- leaving them to suffer higher rates of mental illness, along with increased rates of unplanned pregnancies, and STIs, including HIV.

That second group: that's what Trump and red states want.