A U.S. District Judge in Oregon has granted a preliminary injunction, immediately halting the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) new conditions that required states to remove references to gender identity from federally funded adolescent sexual health education curricula.

The ruling by Judge Ann Aiken of the District of Oregon sides with a coalition of sixteen States and the District of Columbia that sued HHS, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), arguing the new conditions were unlawful.

The Plaintiff States—including Washington, New York, Illinois, California (whose grant was already terminated), and others—challenged the conditions imposed on non-discretionary federal funding for the Personal Responsibility Education

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