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Several hundred queer and transgender kids and their supporters gathered at the Statehouse in Montpelier to celebrate International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, 2023. File photo by Glenn Russell\/VTDigger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday threatened to cut funding to Vermont and 39 other states for a program aimed at preventing teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases if states do not remove \u201call references to gender ideology\u201d from curriculum materials supported with federal dollars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s health department cut funding to California<\/a> last week for that state\u2019s participation in the nationwide program, called the Personal Responsibility Education Program, or PREP. In a press release Tuesday<\/a>, the department said it could do the same for other states \u2014 as well as U.S. territories and Washington, D.C. \u2014 if health authorities there did not ax what the feds called \u201cdelusional\u201d curriculum language within 60 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Vermont, that puts about $670,000 of federal funding at risk, according to data<\/a> attached to the health and human services department’s release. The program distributes about $80 million nationwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAccountability is coming,\u201d Andrew Gradison, acting assistant U.S. health secretary, said in the release. \u201cFederal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gradison wrote a letter to the Vermont Department of Health on Tuesday outlining what he said were examples, taken from curriculum used in the state, that \u201cfall outside of the scope\u201d of federal laws governing the sex education program. The feds asked Vermont to provide curriculum used for the program in April, according to the letter, and Gradison on Tuesday thanked the state for a \u201ctimely response.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter cited language from Vermont\u2019s sex education materials stating that asking young people \u201cto tell you their pronouns is a way of creating a safe space for transgender or gender nonconforming youth,\u201d as well as material that included an explanation of differences between the terms \u201cgender,\u201d \u201cgender identity” and \u201cgender expression.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter also cites material from Vermont stating: \u201cTransgender women and cisgender women are both women. Transgender men and cisgender men are both men. The use of cisgender helps clarify that gender identity exists in both cisgender and transgender people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gradison called the language \u201cirrelevant\u201d to the purpose of the PREP grant program, which he said is to educate young people about abstinence and contraception. He said the program\u2019s federal statute \u201cneither requires, supports nor authorizes teaching students that gender identity is distinct from biological sex or that boys can identify as girls and vice versa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter directed Vermont to remove \u201cthese and all similar language\u201d from curriculum used for PREP in the state or risk losing funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement Tuesday afternoon, Kyle Casteel, a spokesperson for the state\u2019s Department of Health, said of the letter that his colleagues were \u201cworking to understand it in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile we don’t know the full scope of the potential impacts yet, the Health Department affirms our commitment to evidence-based public health programs that reflect the needs of all Vermonters, including the LGBTQ+ community,\u201d Casteel said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olivia Gieger contributed reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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