“ Genre Ideology “has no place in sex ed, says Trump White House

This decision is the last of a line of efforts since Trump returned to the White House in January to recognize people like a man or a woman and to eliminate what he calls “gender ideology”.

“Federal funds will not be used to poison the spirits of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas,” said assistant secretary for health and interim human services, Andrew Gradison, in a statement.

This position contradicts what the American Medical Association say and other traditional medical groups: that in -depth scientific research suggest that sex and sex are better understood as a spectrum than a definition or a definition.

The funds in question in the education program of personal responsibilities total more than $ 81 million for the 40 states plus the District of Columbia and five territories where the officials also sent the letter. Officials were informed that they had 60 days to change the lessons or could lose their subsidies.

California was warned previously and the $ 12 million subsidy for this state was stripped on August 21.

Now other states will have until the end of October to decide to comply or give up funding.

The Connecticut General of Connecticut, William Tong, also suggested that there could be judicial challenges to the efforts of the administration. “The threat to finance our schools on this subject is completely dislocated and we are not going to let Trump steal money from our children,” he said in a statement.

The subsidies are used to teach adolescents abstinence and contraception. They target education for those who are homeless, in foster family, living in rural areas or places with birth rates for high adolescents – and minority groups, including LGBTQ +populations.

Alison Macklin, spokesperson for Siecus: Sex Ed for social change, said that grant money is used for things like training for sex education and groups that present lessons in schools or groups after school.

“This money is essential to states and territories to support sex education,” she said. “They strengthen critical life skills for young people.”

She noted that some states have laws requiring education on lesbians, gays and transgender.

In letters, the federal administration for children and families highlighted specific examples in the textbooks and programs they find reprehensible.

For example, a program used in Alabama encourages the instructor to ask participants to share the pronouns they use.

He also tells the instructor to tell the class that people “can identify as gays, lesbians, bisexuals or rights.

Southern Carolina Governor Henry McMaster applauded warnings during a question and answer period with journalists this week.

“The things they describe there really have nothing to do.” He said. “Someone has gone mad somewhere trying to put it all” in the lessons.

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Journalists from the Associated Press Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, and Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this article.