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The Attorney General of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, faces a trial to allow Trans athletes to participate in female sports while the state faces a continuous controversy involving a trans launcher which dominates the softball season.
“Minnesota fails its female athletes. The state puts the rights of men before women, telling the girls that their hard work could never be sufficient to win and that they do not deserve equity and security,” said Suzanne Beecher, the legal advisor of Freedom, Alliance, told PK Press Club Digital.
“By sacrificing protection for female athletes, Minnesota does not offer equal girls and opportunities, violating the provisions of title IX. Our client, the female athletes United, is right to defend its members by contesting the discriminatory policy of the State and defending the true equality of sport.”
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The Attorney General of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, arrives to speak on stage on the third day of the National Democratic Convention at the United Center on August 21, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Getty Images)
The defendants are Ellison, the executive director of the Minnesota State High School Erich Martens League, the Minnesota Commissioner Department of Human Rights Rebecca Lucero and the education commissioner of Minnesota Willie Jett.
Ellison’s office has published a statement meeting the trial.
“In addition to doing the exercise and the pleasure of competition, playing sports is accompanied by many advantages for young people. You are establishing friendships that can last a lifetime, you learn to work as part of a team, and you feel as if you are belonging,” said Ellison.
“I believe it is bad to distinguish a group of students, who are already confronted at higher levels of intimidation and harassment, and to tell these children that they cannot be part of the team because of whom they are. I will continue to defend the rights of all students to play sports with their friends and their peers.”
Reports on the Softball Transwood launcher winning 14 consecutive games before the playoffs and winning the honors of all the states of the first team have shaken the state in recent weeks.
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The former Vikings player, Jack Brewer, even spoke of the controversy shaking the sports scene of the high school of his state.
“In all sports – especially something like softball – people can seriously injure themselves. A man hits the ball stronger. A man throws the ball faster. So the idea of allowing men to participate in female softball – especially now, when this sport has developed in visibility and opportunities – is crazy,” Brewer told PK Press Club.
Meanwhile, Ellison continues President Donald Trump and the Ministry of Justice to ensure that transgender athletes can continue to participate in the sports of girls in the state.
After Trump signed the executive decree of “men to keep the men in women’s sport, the Minnesota State High School League announced it would challenge federal law by allowing transgender athletes to continue playing in female sports.
Ellison then declared at a press conference on April 22 that he had received an opinion from the Ministry of Justice threatening legal action if the State had not followed the decree, then the GA decided to continue first.
“I’m not going to sit while waiting for the Trump administration to continue the Minnesota. Today, Minnesota is continuing it and its administration because we will not participate in this shameful intimidation,” said Ellison. “We will not leave a small group of vulnerable children who only try to be healthy and live their lives being demonized.”
The White House responded to the trial, condemning Ellison for having brought legal action to allow trans inclusion.
“Why would an adult continue the Trump administration to allow other organic men to participate in female sports? It is frightening and anti-Femme,” said White House spokesperson Harrison Fields, in PK Press Club Digital.
The Minnesota State legislature failed to “preserve the sports law for girls” at the beginning of March, which would have declared that “only students can participate in a sports team or a sport of elementary or secondary level that a teaching establishment has limited to women and girls”.
