Minnesota AG sued for letting biological males play in girls sports amid trans softball player dominance

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is facing a suit for enabling trans athletes to vie successful girls sports arsenic the authorities faces an ongoing contention involving a trans pitcher dominating the softball season. 

The spiritual instrumentality steadfast Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has filed a suit connected behalf of the activistic radical Female Athletes United and 3 anonymous girls softball players successful the authorities implicit the ongoing controversy. 

"Minnesota is failing its pistillate athletes. The authorities is putting the rights of males up of females, telling girls their hard enactment whitethorn ne'er beryllium capable to triumph and that they don’t merit fairness and safety," Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Suzanne Beecher told Fox News Digital. 

"By sacrificing extortion for pistillate athletes, Minnesota fails to connection girls adjacent attraction and opportunity, violating Title IX’s provisions. Our client, Female Athletes United, is close to basal up for its members by challenging the state’s discriminatory argumentation and advocator for existent equality successful sports."

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison arrives to talk connected signifier during the 3rd time of the Democratic National Convention astatine the United Center connected Aug. 21, 2024 successful Chicago, Illinois.  (Getty Images)

The defendants are Ellison, the Minnesota State High School League Executive Director Erich Martens, Minnesota Department of Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero and Minnesota Commissioner of Education Willie Jett.

Ellison's bureau has released a connection responding to the lawsuit.

"In summation to getting workout and the amusive of competition, playing sports comes with truthful galore benefits for young people. You physique friendships that tin past a lifetime, you larn however to enactment arsenic portion of a team, and you get to consciousness similar you belong," Ellison said. 

"I judge it is incorrect to azygous retired 1 radical of students, who already look higher levels of bullying and harassment, and archer these kids they cannot beryllium connected the squad due to the fact that of who they are. I volition proceed to support the rights of each students to play sports with their friends and peers."

Reports of the trans softball pitcher winning 14 consecutive games heading into the playoffs and earning first-team All-State honors rocked the authorities successful caller weeks. 

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Former Vikings subordinate Jack Brewer adjacent spoke retired astir the contention rocking his state's precocious schoolhouse sports scene. 

"In immoderate athletics — particularly thing similar softball — radical tin get earnestly hurt. A antheral hits the shot harder. A antheral throws the shot faster. So, the thought of allowing men to vie successful women’s softball — particularly now, erstwhile that athletics has grown successful visibility and accidental — is insane," Brewer told Fox News Digital. 

Meanwhile, Ellison is suing President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice to guarantee transgender athletes tin proceed participating successful girls sports successful the state.

After Trump signed the "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" 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 past claimed astatine a property league connected April 22 that helium received announcement from the Department of Justice threatening ineligible enactment if the authorities did not travel the enforcement order, truthful the AG decided to writer first. 

"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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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. 

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."

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