Federal funding for sex education in California is reduced “the radical ideology of the sexes”

The Trump administration has canceled a sex education subsidy at California worth around $ 12.3 million on the grounds that it included a “radical gender ideology” after state officials refused to revise documents.

Funding helps pay for sex education programs in minor justice establishments, homeless shelters and family investment group houses, as well as in certain schools, reaching around 13,000 young people per year on 20 agencies.

Thursday’s announcement had been expected because it was linked to a 60 -day compliance date.

“California’s refusal to comply with federal law and to remove the blatant ideology of gender materials funded by the federal government is unacceptable,” said interim assistant secretary Andrew Gradison, administration for children and families. “The Trump administration will not allow taxpayers to be used to endocate children. Responsibility arrives for each state that uses federal funds to teach children the delusional genre ideology. ”

State representatives estimated that its documents are correct and do not violate the terms of the federal grant,, Including in a declaration Thursday of the State Department of Public Health.

“California students deserve access to information and educational documents that help them make healthy decisions concerning sexual activity, including the decision to delay sexual activity, while honoring and respecting their dignity, including gender identity,” said the press release.

The Trump administration does not accuse California of not having carried out the instructions of abstinence and contraception funded by the subsidy. Rather, the state has included additional content that the Trump administration defines as reprehensible and “outside the scope” of the objective of the subsidy.

A letter of June 20 to a senior California official cited, as one of the many examples, samples of label of a college lesson:

“We have spoken during the class messages that people have on the way they should act as boys and girls – but as many of you know, there are also people who do not identify themselves like boys or girls, but rather like transgender or queer genre.

The California Department of Public Health responded in a letter of August 19 according to which it “will not make such modifications at present”, because its documents had already been approved by the same agency which now requests the change. In addition, managers have described materials as “medically precise” and relevant for educational objectives. California also disputed whether the Trump administration had the power to cancel the subsidy in this way.

The amount of money at stake is low compared to other problems which are being complained between California and the Trump administration, but the dispute embodies now family parameters which have resulted in more than three dozen prosecutions.

The cancellation of the subsidy also represents another front in the conflict between the Trump administration and California linked to LGBTQ +problems. These disputes fed by the war by culture go back considerably to the executive order of January 20 of Trump which recognized two sexes, men and women, a saying that moved all the departments under its jurisdiction.

In sports for young people, this fracture took place with Trump threatening to retain large sums of federal funding unless California exceeds transgender athletes of female and female sports.

California responded by creating double categories for female sporting events, so that the success of a trans athlete, in an athletics competition for example, would not prevent another athlete from winning a prize. Compromise does not deal with the issue of trans athletes in women’s sports sports, such as volleyball.

The Trump administration does not accept these measures taken by California as respect for its directives.

In the classroom, Trump’s policy is opposed to the program which allows a binary – male or female – gender expression. Historically, the federal authority on the local program was limited, but Trump quickly used federal funding as a leverage.

In this case, it is the administration for children and families of the United States Ministry of Health and Social Services that has exerted pressure.

The Department of Children and Families administers a subsidy program which distributes $ 75 million at a national level each year “to educate adolescents on … both abstinence and contraception for prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV / AIDS”, according to federal law.

For a period of three years, over the next fiscal year, California has been attributed to funding worth more than $ 18.2 million, according to Health and Human Services. Under the federal decision, the state should lose $ 12.3 million it has not yet received, covering several years.

The federal subsidy supports California Personal Responsibility Education Program, or CA PREP, which provides a “full education of sexual health to adolescents via effective program models, based on evidence or focused on evidence”, according to a state press release.

“The data show that participants who finished preparing the turnover had a better understanding of sexual and reproductive health subjects and the improvement of health results,” said the health service.

The Trump administration does not deny that the federal government had previously approved the Californian documents, but said that the Biden administration “had made an error by allowing the preparation subsidies to be used to teach students the gender ideology”.

California’s law obliges school districts to provide students with complete sexual health education, as well as information on HIV prevention, at least once in high school and once in college.

The Trump administration affirmed total authority on federal subsidies, including those in progress. Many of his grant cancellations are disputed to the court. Some have been allowed to take effect; Others have been blocked. In some cases, the congress has just approved the cancellations of grants, including for foreign aid and to support the public broadcasting network.