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The lawsuit argues the policy represents an unlawful overreach of executive authority and targets transgender youths.

Rhode Island stands to lose approximately $600,000 in grant funding for its Personal Responsibility Education Program.

The program educates young people on abstinence and contraception to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

Rhode Island is among a coalition of Democratic-led states that filed a lawsuit Sept. 26 seeking to block President Donald Trump's administration from requiring them to remove all references to "gender ideology" from sexual health education curricula in order to receive federal grant funding.

Sixteen states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Eugene, Oregon, argued tha

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