Robert F Kennedy Jr is coming under fire from a number of US states for threatening to cut funding over sex-education programmes that mention trans and non-binary people. Led by Minnesota, Washington and Oregon, the complainants claimed that the Trump administration was violating federal law by overstepping congress’ spending authority. In August, the government threatened to rescind federal funding for educational institutions in at least 46 of the 50 states if they did not remove sex-education materials that mention trans and non-binary people. HHS could axe more $81.3 million (almost £60.5 million) in federal funding within the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) and the Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance Education program (SRAE) if it follows through on the threat. More than $12 million (£8.9 million) in PREP funds has already been withheld from California, after HHS said the state’s Department of Public Health was producing education materials containing “gender ideology”.