Minnesota has stood firm in its support of trans athletes.
Molly Sprayregen at LGBTQ Nation (10.06.2025):
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.”
Title IX is the federal law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex in education. The law has been used by both pro- and anti-LGBTQ+ rights advocates to argue for and against equal rights. The current administration has argued that Title IX prohibits transgender people from participating in school sports, using restrooms that match their gender identity, and having educators and government education officials recognize their gender identity (including names and pronouns). These positions effectively deny trans students an equal education when it comes to specific school programs and facilities segregated based on their sex assigned at birth. 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.” The note repeatedly misgenders trans women and girls and slammed a “male athlete” from Champlin Park High School for doing well in a softball season. ED’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said Minnesota leaders are “on the wrong side of justice, common sense, and the American people,” and that the administration “will not allow Minnesota or any other state to sacrifice the safety, fair treatment, and dignity of its female students to appease the false idols of radical gender ideology.”
The Trump Regime’s US Dept. of Education and the HHS issue a threat to Minnesota for its pro-trans athletes policies: comply with their anti-trans directives or lose federal athletics funding.









