Judge Halts ‘Absurd’ HHS Gender Grant Requirements in States Row

US Department of Health and Human Services requirements for grant recipients to scrub references to what it calls “gender ideology” from sex education health materials must be paused while a lawsuit plays out, a federal judge ruled.

The HHS’ reasoning that the government could “fund programs that actually teach race, sex, or religious discrimination and could mandate that such discrimination be included as a condition of grant funding” is “absurd,” Judge Ann Aiken of the US District Court for the District of Oregon wrote in a Monday order preliminary enjoining the Trump administration from enforcing its conditions against a coalition ...