Cutting funds for the program will impact youth in underserved areas, stigmatize the LGTBQ+ community and worsen disparities, said a medical provider

Rhode Island is in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump’s administration again – this time for teaching “gender ideology” as part of a federally funded sex education curriculum.

On Aug. 26, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Administration for Children and Families, sent a letter to Rhode Island’s Department of Health demanding it scrub any references to what the administration calls “gender ideology” from its Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP).

“Accountability is coming,” Andrew Gradison, acting assistant secretary at the Administration for Children and Families, said in a press release . “

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