Trump administration sued by 16 states over threats to withhold gender

In a significant legal challenge, sixteen states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services, alleging that the department’s threats to withdraw funding from sexual education programs that include diverse gender identities violate federal law. The complaint, filed in federal court in Oregon, argues that the administration is attempting to “rewrite sexual health curricula to erase entire categories of students,” framing the action as a targeted attack on transgender and gender-diverse youth, according to the Associated Press. The dispute revolves around two federal programs: the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) and the Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) program. These grants fund lessons on absti