Massachusetts schools are feeling pressure from the Trump administration to remove all "gender ideology" content from its sex education curricula — and the Fall River Public Schools district is no exception. 

 

It was reported Sept. 2 that state health officials received letters from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) demanding that all references to transgender people from its Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) be eliminated within 60 days. 

 

Federally funded PREP programs teach comprehensive sexual health education and life skills to middle and high school students in communities with the highest teen birth rates in Massachusetts, according to the state.

 

PREP currently serves teenagers in these Massachusetts communities: Andover, Chelsea, Chicopee, Fall River, Haverhill, Holyoke, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Pittsfield, Revere, Salem, Springfield, and Stockbridge.

 

The city is one of 14 school districts subjected to PREP changes and therefore at risk of losing federal funding.

 

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