HHS cuts federal funds to California sex ed program that teaches gender ideology to children

The Department of Health and Human Services has pulled funding from California's sex ed program over the state's refusal to remove radical gender ideology from the curriculum. President Trump on Thursday said, "Any California school district that doesn't adhere to our Transgender policies, will not be funded."

The administration has made their position clear on transgender inclusivity in public education, saying outright that women's sports are for women only and sex-segregated spaces are exactly that. They are also opposed to lessons in gender ideology that teach children they can become the opposite sex with a little wishing and a lot of medical intervention.

"California’s refusal to comply with federal law and remove egregious gender ideology from federally funded sex-ed materials is unacceptable," said acting assistant secretary at the Administration for Children and Families Andrew Gradison, per Fox Digital.

"The Trump Administration will not allow taxpayer dollars to be used to indoctrinate children. Accountability is coming for every state that uses federal funds to teach children delusional gender ideology," Gradison said.

The California program that's affected is the Personal Responsibility Education Program, which has the stated mission of preventing teen pregnancy, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, increasing contraceptive use, and reducing numbers of teen sexual partners. 

The teacher training for middle school students also read "We’ve been talking during class about messages people get on how they should act as boys and girls—but as many of you know, there are also people who don’t identify as boys or girls, but rather as transgender or gender queer. This means that even if they were called a boy or a girl at birth and may have body parts that are typically associated with being a boy or a girl, on the inside, they feel differently."

It further read: "All people have a gender identity" and told teachers to discuss different gender identities with students, including "non-binary, agender, bigender, genderfluid, (or) genderqueer."

The Administration for Children and Families gave California a 60-day deadline in June to remove the gender ideology lessons or face an end to the grant that funds the program. The funding was terminated when California did not comply with the deadline.

"CDPH will not make any such modifications at this time for several reasons," California said in a letter to HHS. "The listed reasons were: 1) PREP materials had already been reviewed and approved by ACF; 2) the materials are medically accurate; 3) the gender ideology content is relevant to purposes identified in the authorizing statute, specifically the adult preparation subjects listed at 42 U.S.C. § 713(b)(2)(C); and 4) ACF does not have authority to take an enforcement action."

"In a disturbing and egregious abuse of federal funds, California has been using taxpayer money to teach curricula that could encourage kids to contemplate mutilating their genitals, ‘altering their body… through hormone therapy,’ ‘adding or removing breast tissue,’ and ‘changing their name.’ It instructed teachers to ‘remind students that some men are born with female anatomy," HHS said.