A new initiative to cut off school lunch funds for schools that deviate from federally-backed transgender policy in classrooms has South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem threatening a lawsuit.
Weeks after the United States Department of Agriculture proposed new rules that would choke dollars from public schools that prohibit transgender youth from participating in sports or using gender-designated bathrooms of their choice, the first-term Republican governor Thursday vowed to resist the measure with litigation.
“President Biden is holding lunch money for poor Americans hostage in pursuit of his radical agenda. He is insisting that we allow biological males to compete in girls’ sports or else lose funding for SNAP and school lunch programs,” Noem said in a statement sent to the Argus Leader. “South Dakota will continue to defend basic fairness so that our girls can compete and achieve.”
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