Overview

• The Education and Health and Human Services departments concluded Minnesota violated Title IX by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls' teams and set a roughly 10‑day window to accept a resolution, with the deadline falling on Friday.
• Attorney General Keith Ellison said allowing a small number of transgender students to play “doesn’t harm anyone,” citing the Minnesota Human Rights Act, and he argued the administration’s funding threats are unconstitutional.
• Ellison previously filed an April lawsuit seeking to block President Trump’s executive orders and Justice Department letters that direct a biology‑based Title IX enforcement and threaten Minnesota’s education funds.
• State Democrats condemn the federal threat but many decline to state a clear position on the policy, as Republicans elevate the issue and polling shows broad opposition to letting transgender female athletes compete in women’s sports.
• Federal reviews followed investigations launched in February by ED’s Office for Civil Rights and by June at HHS, focusing on Minnesota’s 2015 high school league policy that opened girls’ sports to transgender student athletes.