The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ordered 46 states and territories yesterday to stop teaching “delusional” gender ideology in federally funded Personal Responsibility Education Programs (PREP).
The states — all except Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Texas and Virginia — and Washington D.C. must make their PREP curricula biologically accurate in the next 60 days or lose the grant altogether.
“Accountability is coming,” Acting Assistant HHS Secretary Andrew Gradison wrote in a press release.
“Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas.”
The order is no idle threat. Just last week, HHS terminated all PREP grants to California — totaling some $14.4 million — after the state reportedly refused to scrub gender ideology from its PREP programs.
On June 20, HHS gave California the same ultimatum it would later issue to most of the country: Remove all reference to gender ideology from PREP curricula and program material within sixty days or forfeit the grant altogether — including the $14.4 million in PREP grants set to pay out through 2025.
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