Trump DOJ sues Minnesota over its trans-inclusive school sports policieshttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/doj-sues-minnesota-over-its-trans-inclusive-school-sports-policies/ 🔗Daniel Villarreal (30 March 2026)
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday that it is suing Minnesota and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) for allowing transgender girls and women to play on school sports teams matching their gender identity.
The DOJ claims that schools with trans-inclusive sports policies violate Title IX, the federal law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex in education. President Joe Biden's administration said the law forbids anti-trans discrimination, since it's impossible to discriminate against someone's gender identity without also taking their sex at birth into account. However, the current administration says trans-inclusive sports policies are discriminatory because they violate the privacy, dignity, and possible awards of cisgender girls and women in sports.
The MSHSL board voted in December 2014 to allow trans students to participate in athletics and fine arts based on their gender identity. The policy took place at the start of the 2015-2016 school year. The first Trump administration allowed this, and similar policies in other states, to continue without any opposition during his first presidential term.
"The Trump Administration does not tolerate flawed state policies that ignore biological reality and unfairly undermine girls on the playing field," Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in the DOJ's announcement of its lawsuit, according to The Hill. "This Department of Justice is proud to partner with HHS [the Department of Health and Human Services] and the Department of Education to protect our girls in Minnesota and across the country."
