The Trump administration on Tuesday opened an investigation into a contested Oregon policy of requiring prospective adoptive and foster parents to affirm their child’s gender identity, spelling uncertainty for hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for the state.

The U.S Health and Human Services Department’s Administration for Children and Families notified the Oregon Department of Human Services of the move in a letter signed by Acting Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison, who pledged in August that “federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas.” The letter seeks from Oregon “information that can shed light on your current policies.”

The memo comes alongside an investigation into Massachusetts, which h

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