AG Ellison’s suit against Trump over anti-trans executive orders draws mixed reactions
- Attorney General Keith Ellison announced a federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump and Pam Bondi on Tuesday, April 22.
- The suit challenges Trump's executive orders regarding gender identity and participation in women's sports issued earlier this year.
- This lawsuit marks one of 16 actions Ellison has taken against the administration within his initial three months in office.
- A May 2023 poll found 71% of surveyed US adults favor requiring athletes to compete based on sex assigned at birth.
- Critics called the litigation a waste of public money that risks losing federal funding for the state.
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Second federal lawsuit filed against White House passport policy
Lambda Legal on April 25 filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of seven transgender and nonbinary people who are challenging the Trump-Vance administration’s passport policy. The lawsuit, which Lambda Legal filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in Baltimore, alleges the policy that bans the State Department from issuing passports with “X” gender markers “has caused and is causing grave and immediate harm to transgender people lik…
Maine and Minnesota Are Coming for Trump's Attacks on Trans Youth
This is the first edition of Trans News Tracker, a bi-weekly round-up of the most important news — good and bad — impacting trans and queer people in the U.S. (and abroad). The post Maine, Minnesota, and Pedro Pascal Are Pushing Back on Trump’s Anti-Trans Attacks appeared first on Autostraddle.

AG Ellison’s suit against Trump over anti-trans executive orders draws mixed reactions
ST. PAUL — Attorney General Keith Ellison announced a suit against President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday, April 22, over anti-trans executive orders Ellison said violate Minnesotans’ rights. The suit is one of 16 that Ellison has filed against the Trump administration in his first three months in the Oval Office, but the only suit the state of Minnesota has filed independently, according to the Attorney General’s offic…
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER ON WOMEN’S SPORTS FACES LEGAL CHALLENGE FROM MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL
In a bold move to uphold fairness in women’s athletics, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14201, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” on February 5, 2025. This directive mandates that educational institutions receiving federal funding must ensure that sports teams designated for women and girls are exclusively composed of biological females. Minnesota’s Lawsuit […] The post TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER ON WOMEN’S SPORTS FACES LEGAL C…
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