Portland, Oregon – Sixteen states and provinces of Colombia filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services on Friday, claiming that its threats to withdraw sexual education financing on the curricula that mentioned the various sex identities were a violation of federal law.
The complaint submitted in the Federal Court in Oregon says that the administration is trying to force the states to “rewrite sexual health curricula to eradicate full groups of students” and describes the procedure as “the last attempt by the current administration to target and harm sexually transgender and young sexes.”
HHS did not immediately respond to an email request for comment.
Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, his administration has sought to identify people Just male or female.
HHS wants to prohibit the inclusion of what you describe as “the ideology of sex” in the lessons funded by the Personal Responsibility Program (Prep) and the SRE risk education program. Federal scholarships are used to teach about abstaining from sex and birth control to prevent sexually transmitted infections.
Prosecutors say that the conditions of the grant that HHS seeks to impose on violating federal law, separating the authorities and the authority to spend on Congress. End of financing under the two federal grant programs can lead to a loss of at least 35 million dollars to the plaintiff’s countries, according to the complaint.
HHS warned countries In August, they had 60 days to change the lessons or lose their preparatory grade. California was previously warned, and a $ 12 million grant was stripped on August 21.
The states of Oregon, Washington and Minnesota participate in the leader of the lawsuit.
The public prosecutor in Washington Nick Brown said in a statement that HHS threatened to cancel preparatory grants if his mandate does not remove the language from the high school curriculum saying: “People of all sexual orientation and sexual identities need to know how to prevent pregnancy and sexual intercourse, either for themselves or to help a friend.”
“The choice between loss of financing and the cutting of education programs on sexual health or the exclusion of the transgender community from these programs is unacceptable,” said the Prosecutor in Minnesota Keith Ellson.
Other prosecutors between Colorado, Contecticut, Columbia County, Dilayer, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Min, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Rod Island and Yeskon.