The Trump administration is threatening to withhold millions of dollars from Illinois unless teaching materials that recognize gender non-conformity are changed or eliminated.

Illinois is one of 46 states and territories that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has put “on notice” to “remove gender ideology content from sex ed materials” used in its Personal Responsibility Education Program, or IPREP as it’s shortened in Illinois.

A spokesperson for Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration characterized the demand as a “cruel attack” against transgender youth.

The program, created by federal statute, targets teens in low income or otherwise disadvantaged areas with education about abstinence, contraception, pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections and more. It also focuses on ad

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