Education Dept threatens Minnesota for bowing to "false idols of radical gender ideology"https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/education-dept-threatens-minnesota-for-bowing-to-false-idols-of-radical-gender-ideology/ 🔗Molly Sprayregen (6 Oct 2025)
The Department of Education (ED) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have threatened Minnesota's federal athletics funding unless the state ends its inclusive policies for trans athletes.
A press release issued last week said the administration has found the state in violation of both an anti-trans executive order and Title IX "by allowing males to compete in female sports and occupy female intimate facilities."
The ED and HHS claimed the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) have "allowed male athletes to compete on the girls' Alpine ski team, the girls' Nordic skiing team, the girls' lacrosse team, the girls' track and field team, the girls' volleyball team, and the girls' fastpitch softball team."
In April, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced his filing of a federal lawsuit challenging the president's anti-trans executive order directing agencies to withhold federal funding from educational programs that allow transgender girls to compete on women's sports teams, under the claim that it violates both constitutional rights and Title IX of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
On February 20, Ellison issued a formal legal opinion expressing concerns that complying with the executive order entitled "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" would violate the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA).
"We will not let a small group of vulnerable children who are only trying to be healthy and live their lives be demonized," Ellison said at the time...
