Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from pulling funding for sex ed on gender diversity
Source: Yahoo! News/AP
Tue, October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM EDT
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon has blocked President Donald Trump's administration from pulling sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities.
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken issued the preliminary injunction Monday as part of a lawsuit filed against the Health and Human Services Department by 16 states and the District of Columbia, which argued that pulling such money violated the separation of powers and federal law.
The complaint, filed last month, says the department is attempting to force the states to “rewrite sexual health curricula to erase entire categories of students." It describes the action as “the latest attempt from the current administration to target and harm transgender and gender-diverse youth.” The administration said in court filings that Health and Human Services has the authority to impose conditions for receiving funding grants.
Aiken wrote that the department “provides no evidence that it made factual findings or considered the statutory objectives and express requirements, the relevant data, the applicable anti-sex-discrimination statutes and its own regulations.” The judge added that the department also “fails to show that the new grant conditions are reasonable.”
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