Trump Admin Responds To Minnesota's Lawsuit To Let Trans Athletes In Girls' Sports: 'creepy And Anti-woman'

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced a suit against nan Trump management and Department of Justice connected Tuesday to guarantee that states tin proceed letting biologically antheral trans athletes play successful girls' sports. 

The White House has responded to nan lawsuit, condemning Ellison for taking ineligible action to alteration trans inclusion. 

"Why would a grown man writer nan Trump management to let different biologic males to participate successful women’s sports? This is creepy and anti-woman," White House spokesperson Harrison Fields told Fox News Digital. 

Ellison made nan announcement astatine a property convention aft months of nan authorities defying Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order. Ellison claimed he had received announcement from nan Department of Justice threatening ineligible action if nan authorities did not travel nan executive order. 

"I'm not going to beryllium astir waiting for nan Trump management to writer Minnesota. Today, Minnesota is suing him and his management because we will not participate successful this shameful bullying," Ellison said. "We will not fto a mini group of susceptible children who are only trying beryllium patient and unrecorded their lives beryllium demonized." 

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM

Ellison's lawsuit, revenge successful U.S. District Court successful Minneapolis, argues that nan Trump management does not person nan authority to group states' diversion gender eligibility policies done an executive order.

Minnesota is nan first authorities to writer nan Department of Justice complete threats to trim backing for letting trans athletes play successful girls' sports, and nan 2nd authorities to writer nan Trump management complete nan issue. 

Maine has revenge a suit against Trump aft nan Department of Agriculture trim backing to nan authorities connected April 2, and a national judge has already ruled nan USDA must unfreeze nan funding. 

The Justice Department revenge a lawsuit against nan authorities for its ongoing defiance of Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order. Maine has faced national unit successful nan past 2 months complete its refusal to comply, including 2 national investigations, a backing frost and now a lawsuit. 

When Attorney General Pam Bondi announced nan suit against Maine astatine a property convention past week, she said Minnesota and California could beryllium next. 

"We’re looking astatine Minnesota. We’re looking astatine California. We’re looking astatine many, galore states but they are nan apical 2 that should beryllium connected announcement because we’ve been communicating pinch them," Bondi said.

After Trump's executive order, nan Minnesota State High School League announced it would defy national rule by allowing transgender athletes to proceed playing successful women's sports.

Ellison's agency stated that "based connected nan plain connection of nan statute, acquisition institutions and nan Minnesota State High School League would break nan MHRA by prohibiting transgender athletes from participating successful extracurricular activities accordant pinch their gender identity."

HOW TRANSGENDERISM IN SPORTS SHIFTED THE 2024 ELECTION AND IGNITED A NATIONAL COUNTERCULTURE

Minnesota's authorities legislature grounded to walk nan "Preserving Girls’ Sports Act" successful early March, which would person stated that "only female students whitethorn participate successful an simple aliases secondary schoolhouse level diversion squad aliases athletics that an acquisition institution has restricted to women and girls."

The measure fell short successful nan state's House of Representatives, pinch 67 of nan 68 votes needed to pass. Gov. Tim Walz was expected to veto nan measure had it gone to his desk. 

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks astatine a DNC property convention connected July 17, 2024. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Former Minnesota Vikings and University of Minnesota shot subordinate Jack Brewer lobbied for nan bill, and had told Fox News Digital he recovered Walz's pro-trans stances "disgusting," particularly considering Walz was a shot coach astatine Mankato West High School successful nan 1990s. 

"It's perfectly disgusting, and it's why, erstwhile you spot him and you spot his mannerisms and nan measurement he carries himself, you cognize this feline doesn't entreaty to existent men and boys who person battled it retired connected nan gridiron, man. I person thing successful communal pinch this guy," Brewer said. 

"I deliberation he's a ugliness to nan shot world to beryllium honest." 

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

A New York Times/Ipsos survey recovered nan immense mostly of Americans, including a mostly of Democrats, don't deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to compete successful women's sports. 

Of nan 2,128 group who participated, 79% said biologic males who place arsenic women should not beryllium allowed to participate successful women's sports. Of nan 1,025 group who identified arsenic Democrats aliases leaning Democratic, 67% said transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to compete pinch women. 

Follow Fox News Digital’s sports sum connected X, and subscribe to nan Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.