President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned states and American territories that they must remove references to “gender ideology” from K–12 education materials or they will lose federal funding.
HHS sent letters dated Aug. 26 to 40 states and Washington, D.C., as well as five territories, that say any state or territory that fails to end the promotion of gender ideology in its implementation of the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) within the next 60 days will lose federal PREP funding. Among the 40 states and territories receiving letters is the state of Missouri.
In the letters, HHS acknowledges that these curricula and programs had previously been approved under President Joe Biden’s administration, which it says “erred in allowing PREP grants to be used to teach students gender ideology.” It states that these materials are now “out of compliance” with HHS regulations. HHS instructed officials in each state that received a letter to modify their curricula and course materials by Monday, Oct. 27, for the department to review.
Further details of the federal orders can be found here at the National Catholic Register.