The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday announced it had terminated California’s participation in a federal sex education grant program after the state refused to remove information about transgender people from its curricula.

The department’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) asked California in March to submit all learning materials for its Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), a teen pregnancy prevention and sexual health initiative established in 2010 under the Affordable Care Act, “for a medical accuracy review.”

On Thursday, the Health Department said it identified content in the state’s curricula outside of the scope of PREP’s authorizing statute.

“Specifically, ACF identified multiple examples of gender ideology content, including lessons teaching students that gender identity is........

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