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The Attorney General of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, announced Tuesday a trial against the Trump administration and the Ministry of Justice to ensure that states can continue to let the athletes trans biologically male play in sports for girls.
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.
Ellison made this announcement at a press conference after months of the state defying Trump’s decree “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports”. Ellison said he had received an opinion from the Ministry of Justice threatening legal action if the State had not followed the decree.
“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.”
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The Ellison trial, filed with the American district court of Minneapolis, argues that the Trump administration does not have the power to define the admissibility policies to the athletic gender by states by a decree.
Minnesota is the first state to continue the Ministry of Justice concerning threats to reduce funding to allow trans athletes in girls sports, and the second state to continue the Trump administration on the issue.
Maine has filed a complaint against Trump after the Ministry of Agriculture reduced the financing of the State on April 2, and a federal judge has already ruled that the USDA must thaw funding.
The Ministry of Justice has filed a trial Against the state for its current challenge on Trump’s executive decree “men of men out of women’s sport”. Maine has faced federal pressures in the past two months for its refusal to comply, including two federal surveys, a financing frost and now a trial.
When Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the trial against Maine at a press conference last week, she said Minnesota and California could be next.
“We are looking at Minnesota. We are watching California. We are looking at many states, but it is the first two that should be in opinion because we communicate with them,” said Bondi.
After Trump’s decree, the Minnesota State High School League announced it would challenge federal law by allowing transgender athletes to continue playing in female sports.
Ellison’s office said that “depending on the clear language of the status, educational establishments and LycĂ©e du Minnesota State league Would violate the MHRA by prohibiting transgender athletes from participating in extracurricular activities in accordance with their gender identity. “”
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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”.
The bill failed in the House of State representatives, with 67 of the 68 votes necessary to pass. Governor Tim Walz had to veto the bill if he had gone to his office.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaks at a DNC press conference on July 17, 2024. (Jim Vonduska / Getty Images)
Former Vikings of Minnesota and football player at the University of Minnesota Brewer Press the bill and told PK Press Club Digital that he had found the “disgusting” Walz Pro-Trans positions, especially since Walz was a football coach at the Mankato West High School in the 1990s.
“It is absolutely disgusting, and that is why, when you see it and you see its ways and the way it is worn, you know that this guy does not call on real men and boys who fought it on the grill, guy. I have nothing in common with this guy,” said Brewer.
“I think it’s a shame for the world of football to be honest.”
A New York Times / Ipsos survey has revealed that the vast majority of Americans, including the majority of Democrats, do not think that transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in female sports.
Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said that biological men who identify themselves as women should not be allowed to participate in female sports. Of the 1,025 people who have identified as a democrats or who lean a democrat, 67% said that transgender athletes should not be authorized to compete with women.