Trump demanded trans issues be excluded from sex education. 11 states complied
by Carter Sherman from US news | The Guardian on (#712N1)
Sixteen other states have sued the White House over the program, saying it's trampling on Congress's authority
At least 11 states and two territories are capitulating to a recent demand from the Trump administration to strip references to gender identity and the existence of transgender and non-binary people from a federal sex education program, officials confirmed to the Guardian.
The administration set a Monday deadline to remove the references or risk losing millions of dollars of federal funding. Almost all of the states that are complying have Republican-controlled state legislatures and most have Republican governors.
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