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Zorro

(17,730 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 09:33 AM Jun 24

Trump administration orders California to remove gender identity from sex education lessons

The Trump administration has given California 60 days to remove gender identity materials from sex education curriculum or risk losing more than $12.3 million in federal grants that helped pay for the creation and distribution of the materials.

The order is the latest clash between the administration California related to LGBTQ+ issues. These culture war-tinged disputes have raged on many fronts, but date back substantially to Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order that recognized two sexes, male and female, a dictum that has moved across all departments under his jurisdiction.

In youth sports, this divide has unfolded with Trump threatening to withhold vast sums of federal funding unless California bars transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports.

California has not complied to date.

Within the classroom, the Trump policy has meant opposing curriculum that allows for more than a binary — male or female — expression of gender. Historically, federal authority over local curriculum has been limited, but Trump has been quick to use federal funding as leverage.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-24/trump-administration-orders-california-to-remove-gender-identity-from-sex-ed-materials

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Trump administration orders California to remove gender identity from sex education lessons (Original Post) Zorro Jun 24 OP
Trump Administration orders us to change our underwear every day. surfered Jun 24 #1
What's next? Girls wearing their bras on the outside too? ProudMNDemocrat Jun 24 #2
You think that's unheard-of? A 1971 movie already put that one forward DFW Jun 24 #5
That's where I got it. surfered Jun 24 #6
Aha! GMTA. n/t DFW Jun 24 #8
MAGA experts on sex education Canada Kid Jun 24 #3
Not a federal issue purple_haze Jun 24 #4
So if Alabama & Mississipi make race-based chattel slavery legal + being LGBTQ punishable by death, you're good w/ that? Celerity Jun 24 #9
lol purple_haze Jun 24 #10
Headed to another court loss Johonny Jun 24 #7

surfered

(8,219 posts)
1. Trump Administration orders us to change our underwear every day.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 09:36 AM
Jun 24

And to make sure, we must now wear our underwear on the outside.

ProudMNDemocrat

(19,980 posts)
2. What's next? Girls wearing their bras on the outside too?
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 09:39 AM
Jun 24


I have never heard anything so STUPID!

DFW

(58,604 posts)
5. You think that's unheard-of? A 1971 movie already put that one forward
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 09:52 AM
Jun 24

Maybe that's where Trump is getting half his inspirations--fifty year old movies.
 

Canada Kid

(257 posts)
3. MAGA experts on sex education
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 09:44 AM
Jun 24

All this from an administration that is lead by (your president) someone who brags about grabbing pussy in public, convicted of rape and molestation, who openly has no respect for women. This is rich!

 

purple_haze

(401 posts)
4. Not a federal issue
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 09:49 AM
Jun 24

State's rights issue. Let the people do what they want within their state.

Celerity

(51,187 posts)
9. So if Alabama & Mississipi make race-based chattel slavery legal + being LGBTQ punishable by death, you're good w/ that?
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:38 AM
Jun 24
State's rights issue. Let the people do what they want within their state.

Johonny

(24,273 posts)
7. Headed to another court loss
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:29 AM
Jun 24

Time and time again, he cannot withhold block grants from Congress over issues not passed by Congress. He will lose in court and he sucks as a human being.

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