Democrat-controlled states sue Trump admin over defunding of gender ideology
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According to the states, the grant conditions are “impermissibly retroactive because they alter conditions attached to the funds Congress duly appropriated to HHS by imposing new conditions on existing appropriations of federal funds to the States.”
They further alleged that the conditions not only constitute an attempt on the part of the HHS to unilaterally amend Title IX but are discriminatory, serving to “exclude transgender, intersex, non-binary, and gender-diverse individuals and make denial of their existence official policy.”
California Attorney General Rob Bonta — who was barred last month from enforcing laws that keep parents in the dark about whether their kids are masquerading as members of the opposite sex at school — said in a statement, “HHS has overstepped its constitutional authority and ignored proper procedures in an attempt to codify its hateful agenda.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James made clear what’s at risk for each Democratic state: tens of billions of dollars in grant funding to ideologically captive institutions. James noted that in New York alone, over $80 billion in funding is at risk because of the requirement that applicants comply with the president’s reality-affirming order.
James suggested that the directive was “cruel and unjust.”
The Democrat-controlled states want the federal court in Rhode Island to declare the policy unlawful and to block the HHS from enforcing it.
Blaze News has reached out to the HHS for comment.
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