California running out of time before Trump admin drops gender ideology hammer

California has roughly 60 days to either “remove all content concerning gender ideology” from its schoolroom curriculum or face the consequences.

This is according to a letter sent on June 20 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sub-agency, the Administration for Children & Families (ACF), to the California government.

California has 53 days left.

CA is violating the terms of the federal PREP grant and must remove gender ideology from its programming or suffer financial consequences.

Colorado uses PREP grant funds the same way. Will it lose $$? pic.twitter.com/5cNoSSrj3w

— Hi Kid (@HiKidHey) June 27, 2025

The letter concerns the content in California’s Personal Responsibility Education Program, or PREP.

“PREP is a $75 million per year federal grant program that teaches youth ages 10-19 about abstinence and contraception, aimed at preventing adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections,” according to an ACF press release.

The key, though, is that PREP is supposed to only teach “medically accurate and age appropriate,” not transgender madness.

The June 20 letter explicitly notes that PREP’s grant award “neither requires, supports nor authorizes teaching students that gender identity is distinct from biological sex.”

Yet the letter contains example after example of this rule being violated.

For instance, one middle school lesson plan reads as follows:

• “We’ve been talking during class about messages people get on how they should act as boys and girls—but as many of you know, there are also people who don’t identify as boys or girls, but rather as transgender or gender queer. This means that even if they were called a boy or a girl at birth and may have body parts that are typically associated with being a boy or a girl, on the inside, they feel differently.”

Another example consists of a PREP teachers’ guide that instructs teachers to “remind [high school] students that some men are born with female anatomy, some women are born with male anatomy.”

PREP’s lesson plans even include information about being so-called “genderqueer, gender non-conforming, and gender expansive,” not to mention “non-binary.”

“The Trump Administration will not tolerate the use of federal funds for programs that indoctrinate our children,” acting ACF Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison said in a statement.

“The disturbing gender ideology content in California’s PREP materials is both unacceptable and well outside the program’s core purpose. ACF remains committed to radical transparency and providing accountability so that parents know what their children are being taught in schools,” he added.

ACF further noted in a press release that “[i]f California fails to make the appropriate modifications to its PREP curricula and program materials, ACF has the authority to withhold, disallow, suspend, or terminate [its] Federal grant.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office, meanwhile, has said that its staff is “reviewing the letter, which we were first made aware of via Fox News, not HHS.”

“To be clear: this is NOT California’s K-12 sex education curriculum,” a Newsom spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “The California Personal Responsibility Education Program (CA PREP), which receives barely $6 million in federal funding, provides comprehensive sexual health education to adolescents via an effective, evidence-based program model.”

The spokesperson dubiously added that all of PREP’s content is medically accurate and age-appropriate.

If California fails to meet the administration’s demands, it stands to lose $12.3 million of $18.2 million in allocated funds that it hasn’t yet received.

All this comes as the U.S. Department of Education is also coming after California, namely for violating Title IX by allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports.

ED’s Office for Civil Rights has concluded its Title IX investigations into California’s Department of Education & Interscholastic Federation and found both clearly violated Title IX by failing to protect women & girls from sex-based discrimination.https://t.co/yFxgAngaK8 pic.twitter.com/XNvdEjcCrN

— U.S. Department of Education (@usedgov) June 25, 2025

“Although Governor Gavin Newsom admitted months ago it was ‘deeply unfair’ to allow men to compete in women’s sports, both the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation continued as recently as a few weeks ago to allow men to steal female athletes’ well-deserved accolades and to subject them to the indignity of unfair and unsafe competitions,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement this week.

“The Trump administration will relentlessly enforce Title IX protections for women and girls, and our findings today make clear that California has failed to adhere to its obligations under federal law,” McMahon said. “The state must swiftly come into compliance with Title IX or face the consequences that follow,” she added.

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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