Montana’s Department of Public Health and Human Services will remove references to gender identity, and transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in federally-funded sex education programs following a federal threat to pull grants. The Trump administration in August demanded 46 states and territories remove all references to “gender ideology” in a federally-funded program that provides health education to adolescents, or risk losing grants. In Montana, the Department of Public Health and Human Services administers a PREP program called Optimal Health for Montana Youth. In a letter to DHPPS Community Health Section Supervisor Darla Dexter, Acting Secretary Gradison stated that references to gender ideology fell outside the scope of authorized subjects. Previous curricula for Montana’s PREP programs had been approved by the federal government, which Gradison described as an error in the prior administration.