The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday threatened to cut funding to Vermont and 39 other states for a program aimed at preventing teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases if states do not remove “all references to gender ideology” from curriculum materials supported with federal dollars.

President Donald Trump’s health department cut funding to California last week for that state’s participation in the nationwide program, called the Personal Responsibility Education Program, or PREP. In a press release Tuesday , the department said it could do the same for other states — as well as U.S. territories and Washington, D.C. — if health authorities there did not ax what the feds called “delusional” curriculum language within 60 days.

In Vermont, that puts ab

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