The State of Minnesota filed suit against the Trump Administration, challenging President Trump's executive orders that restrict recognition of transgender individuals under federal law, bar the use of federal funds for programs deemed to promote “gender ideology,” reinstate a ban on military service by transgender individuals, prohibit funding for gender-affirming care, and withdraw support from educational institutions that permitted transgender girls to compete in women’s sports. Minnesota argues that these directives unlawfully interfered with the state’s ability to enforce its own laws, including the Minnesota Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination against transgender residents. The complaint also contends that these orders unlawfully coerce Minnesota into compliance by threatening to terminate law enforcement grants awarded to Minnesota public schools and universities, despite those grants being unrelated to athletics. Minnesota further asserts that the President not only lacked authority to condition already-appropriated federal funds on compliance with the executive orders, but also that the actions violate the Tenth Amendment by commandeering the state to implement federal policy. Finally, Minnesota argues that the President's reinterpretation of Title IX to mandate discrimination based on gender identity exceeded statutory limits, and that the Department of Justice’s grant termination threats were arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act.
