Trump admin responds to Minnesota's lawsuit to let trans athletes in girls' sports: 'Creepy and anti-woman'

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced a suit against the Trump medication and Department of Justice connected Tuesday to guarantee that states tin proceed letting biologically antheral trans athletes play successful girls' sports. 

The White House has responded to the lawsuit, condemning Ellison for taking ineligible enactment to alteration trans inclusion. 

"Why would a grown antheral writer the Trump medication to let different biologic males to enactment successful women’s sports? This is creepy and anti-woman," White House spokesperson Harrison Fields told Fox News Digital. 

Ellison made the announcement astatine a property league aft months of the authorities defying Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" enforcement order. Ellison claimed helium had received announcement from the Department of Justice threatening ineligible enactment if the authorities did not travel the enforcement order. 

"I'm not going to beryllium astir waiting for the Trump medication to writer Minnesota. Today, Minnesota is suing him and his medication due to the fact that we volition not enactment successful this shameful bullying," Ellison said. "We volition not fto a tiny radical of susceptible children who are lone trying beryllium steadfast and unrecorded their lives beryllium demonized." 

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Ellison's lawsuit, filed successful U.S. District Court successful Minneapolis, argues that the Trump medication does not person the authorization to acceptable states' diversion sex eligibility policies done an enforcement order.

Minnesota is the archetypal authorities to writer the Department of Justice implicit threats to chopped backing for letting trans athletes play successful girls' sports, and the 2nd authorities to writer the Trump medication implicit the issue. 

Maine has filed a suit against Trump aft the Department of Agriculture chopped backing to the authorities connected April 2, and a national justice has already ruled the USDA indispensable unfreeze the funding. 

The Justice Department filed a suit against the authorities for its ongoing defiance of Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" enforcement order. Maine has faced national unit successful the past 2 months implicit its refusal to comply, including 2 national investigations, a backing frost and present a lawsuit. 

When Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the suit against Maine astatine a property league past week, she said Minnesota and California could beryllium next. 

"We’re looking astatine Minnesota. We’re looking astatine California. We’re looking astatine many, galore states but they are the apical 2 that should beryllium connected announcement due to the fact that we’ve been communicating with them," Bondi said.

After Trump's enforcement order, the Minnesota State High School League announced it would defy national instrumentality by allowing transgender athletes to proceed playing successful women's sports.

Ellison's bureau stated that "based connected the plain connection of the statute, acquisition institutions and the Minnesota State High School League would interruption the MHRA by prohibiting transgender athletes from participating successful extracurricular activities accordant with their sex identity."

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Minnesota's authorities legislature failed to walk the "Preserving Girls’ Sports Act" successful aboriginal March, which would person stated that "only pistillate students whitethorn enactment successful an simple oregon secondary schoolhouse level diversion squad oregon athletics that an acquisition instauration has restricted to women and girls."

The measure fell abbreviated successful the state's House of Representatives, with 67 of the 68 votes needed to pass. Gov. Tim Walz was expected to veto the measure had it gone to his desk. 

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks astatine a DNC property league connected July 17, 2024. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Former Minnesota Vikings and University of Minnesota shot subordinate Jack Brewer lobbied for the bill, and had told Fox News Digital helium recovered Walz's pro-trans stances "disgusting," particularly considering Walz was a shot manager astatine Mankato West High School successful the 1990s. 

"It's perfectly disgusting, and it's why, erstwhile you spot him and you spot his mannerisms and the mode helium carries himself, you cognize this feline doesn't entreaty to existent men and boys who person battled it retired connected the gridiron, man. I person thing successful communal with this guy," Brewer said. 

"I deliberation he's a disgrace to the shot satellite to beryllium honest." 

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A New York Times/Ipsos survey recovered the immense bulk of Americans, including a bulk of Democrats, don't deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to vie successful women's sports. 

Of the 2,128 radical who participated, 79% said biologic males who place arsenic women should not beryllium allowed to enactment successful women's sports. Of the 1,025 radical who identified arsenic Democrats oregon leaning Democratic, 67% said transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to vie with women. 

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