Overview
- The Justice Department filed a 45-page complaint Monday in federal court in Minnesota alleging the state education department and the high school league violated Title IX by allowing athletes assigned male at birth to compete in girls’ sports and use girls’ facilities.
- The lawsuit asks the court to declare a Title IX violation and to order a ban on transgender girls in girls’ prep sports, with compliance reporting and money damages.
- Federal officials note Minnesota receives more than $3 billion a year from Education and Health and Human Services, and say that funding depends on Title IX compliance.
- Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison rejected the federal stance and pointed to a pending lawsuit the state filed last April that challenges the administration’s directives.
- The complaint cites a Champlin Park High School softball case as an example of alleged unfairness and lands as the administration pursues similar actions against Maine and California.