HHS pulls state grant for youth education program in California

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, U.S.

(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Thursday it has terminated California’s federal grant for an education program to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections in school children, citing the state’s refusal to remove “radical gender ideology” from its curricula.

(Reporting by Mariam Sunny in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)