United States Justice Department Sues Minnesota To Protect Girls’ Sports And Intimate Spaces.

Washington DC; March 2026: The United States Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division on March 30th have filed suit to enforce the protections of Title IX and ensure fairness and safety for female student athletes in Minnesota.

According to the complaint, Defendants Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) have engaged in sex-based discrimination by requiring girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions that are designated exclusively for girls and allowing boys to invade intimate spaces designated exclusively for girls, such as multi-person locker rooms and bathrooms. These unfair, intentionally discriminatory practices violate the very core of Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal funding. In open defiance of Title IX’s anti-discrimination protections, Minnesota’s policies and practices create unfair competition, deny girls equal athletic opportunities, and expose girls to a hostile educational environment with heightened risks of physical injury and psychological harm. The lawsuit thus seeks declaratory, injunctive, and damages relief for violations of Title IX.

“The Trump Administration does not tolerate flawed state policies that ignore biological reality and unfairly undermine girls on the playing field”, said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “This Department of Justice is proud to partner with HHS and the Department of Education to protect our girls in Minnesota and across the country”.

“The Justice Department cannot ignore a state’s brazen defiance of federal antidiscrimination law”, said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “In service of radical gender ideology, Minnesota’s actions violate Title IX and deny female athletes their hard-earned trophies, records, dignity, and safety”.

“We will not allow girls to be denied equal opportunity and basic privacy”, said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Junior, while further asserting that, “Title IX is clear: schools that accept federal funding must protect the rights, safety, and dignity of female students”.

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said, “The Trump Administration will always fight for the safety and civil rights of women and girls. Minnesota’s policies allow men to dominate women’s sports, denying female athletes fair competition and eroding their right to equal access in educational programs and activities. Thank you to Attorney General Bondi for bringing this fight to the courts to hold Minnesota accountable”.

MDE receives more than $3 billion in federal funding from the United States Department of Education and the United States Department of Health and Human Services. As a condition to receiving this federal funding, MDE agreed to comply and ensure its funding subrecipients, including local schools, comply with Title IX. Minnesota law and local schools have ceded responsibility for scholastic sports to MSHSL. MDE has authority over MSHSL and local schools’ athletic policies, including non-discrimination rules. MSHSL currently has more than 500 member schools.

Maverick News 30 has accessed and reviewed the Complaint filed before the learned United States District Court, Court of Minnesota – wherein The Plaintiff (United States Of America) has highlighted in point no. 3 that:

“The undeniable physiological differences between male and female athletes provide boys with inherent advantages in strength, speed, and physicality that predetermine the outcome of athletic contests. These differences are precisely why Title IX and its implementing regulations, e.g., 34 C.F.R. Part 106 and 45 C.F.R. Part 86, permit and encourage sex-separated sports to ensure girls have an equal opportunity to participate in, excel at, and reap the educational benefits of athletics. Yet Minnesota’s

policies and practices intentionally defy this core Title IX tenet by allowing some boys to compete in girls’ sports without regard for these biological realities”.

In point no. 12, the Plaintiff has alleged:

“Defendants recognize the inherent biological advantage of boys by intentionally separating athletics by sex. But Defendants then ignore this biological advantage by providing an exception for trans-identifying boys. This break from biology discriminates against girl athletes and violates Title IX’s equal-opportunity mandate.

Defendants have adopted and implemented rules, policies, and practices that force girls to compete against boys—despite the real physiological differences between the sexes—if a boy asserts that he is a girl. And despite Title IX’s mandate, Defendants have adopted and implemented policies and practices that allow boys to invade sensitive female-only spaces, endangering girls’ privacy, dignity, and safety and causing a hostile educational environment that denies girls educational opportunities”.

Vide point no. 36, 37, and 38 it was further alleged that:

36. “On September 30, 2025, the USDOE and HHS notified Defendants that Defendants were not in compliance with Title IX and further advised Defendants of the actions necessary for Defendants to come into compliance”.

37. “After multiple attempts to secure Defendants’ voluntary compliance, USDOE and HHS determined that Defendants’ compliance could not be secured by voluntary means”.

38. “After determining voluntary compliance could not be secured, on January 26, 2026, the USDOE and HHS referred the matter to the United States Department of Justice for judicial enforcement”.

Most noteworthy is point no. 188, 189, and 190 where the allegations are intense:

188. “Defendants’ rules, policies, and guidance deny girls the equal athletic benefit of public visibility, recognition of athletic competition accomplishment, and increased opportunity for college athletic recruiting and scholarships”.

189. “Defendants’ rules, policies, and guidance cause girl students to have materially fewer athletic opportunities than they previously enjoyed because they no longer can compete in fair competitions that are exclusively for girls”.

“5. Defendants’ Steadfast Refusal to Comply with Title IX Despite

Warnings from Federal Officials”.

190. “Defendants have intentionally and steadfastly refused to comply with Title IX despite multiple warnings from federal officials”.

The Counsel remains JORDAN K. CARPENTER

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