ST. PAUL, Minn. – Attorney General Keith Ellison called it morally repugnant for President Trump to persecute transgender individuals. Ellison promised to stand by state law that allows transgender girls in high school athletics as girls. Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi has threated to kill federal funds to Minnesota unless Ellison changes his position. There also is pressure from Trump’s education secretary, Denise Carter, who has ordered an investigation of the Minnesota situation. Ellison is firm that he’s prepared to defend and uphold state anti-discrimination law. It’s morally wrong, he said, for the Trump administration “to persecute a small minority group, transgender youth, with the full weight the U.S. Department of Justice just to express prejudice against a vulnerable and often persecuted group of students.”
