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By Kamden Mulder. Media: Nationalreview

The Department of Health and Human Services announced it is cracking down on gender ideology in schools, threatening to withdraw funding from countless states and territories if their federally funded K-12 sexual education programs continue to promote progressive dogma. HHS sent letters to the 40 states, 5 territories, and the District of Columbia, explaining that if any references to gender ideology are made throughout their Personal Responsibility Education Programs (PREP), HHS will withdraw federal funding. There is a 60-day timeline to remove all suggestions or promotions of gender ideology from school curricula. PREP is a sexual education initiative that funnels more than $81 million in federal funding to states and territories participating in the program. The initiative sets out to educate on “both abstinence and contraception,” according to the Family and Youth Services Bureau’s website. The HHS demand comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing agencies to eradicate radical indoctrination from K-12 schooling. freestar “Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas. The Trump Administration will ensure that PREP reflects the intent of Congress, not the priorities of the left,” Acting Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison said in a statement. The letters to each of the states or territories detail the various ways in which the curriculum does not reflect the administration’s expectations. A slide from Delaware’s middle school curriculum, for example, says, “‘Sex assigned at birth’ is the label a doctor gives to a baby when it is born. Sex assigned at birth is about the private parts (genitals) we are born with–it doesn’t consider how we feel inside about our gender.” The Mississippi curriculum includes an exercise where students “roleplay” with their classmates. “Students will be in a position where they must roleplay sexual pressure situations with classmates of both a different and the same gender,” the curriculum highlighted in the letter reads. “This may be awkward for teens who are sensitive to the suggestion of same-sex romance, for teens who identify as gay or lesbian, or for teens who are transgender or gender nonconforming. It’s important to address this situation directly and proactively.” California already lost its PREP funding this month after HHS says the state refused to remove gender ideology from the program. “California’s refusal to comply with federal law and remove egregious gender ideology from federally funded sex-ed materials is unacceptable,” Gradison said. “The Trump Administration will not allow taxpayer dollars to be used to indoctrinate children. Accountability is coming for every state that uses federal funds to teach children delusional gender ideology.”