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Alabama challenges the Biden administration's imposition of gender ideology

The Federal Government threatens to cut money in social programs to States that resist school indoctrination.

School Bus / Cordon Press.

School Bus / Cordon Press.

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Israel Duro

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has announced that Alabama will not give in to "coercion through federal funding" from the Biden Administration to impose gender ideology in school. Marshall emphasized that the matter is before the courts and denounced that the actions of the national Executive "are illegal and unconstitutional."

In an article for Fox News, the attorney general clearly states the situation in which they find themselves:

Undeterred by repeated defeats, the Biden administration's war against red states and our 'Neanderthal thinking' continues. This month, my colleagues and I are fighting Biden and his comrades at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the courts to protect the right of states to run their public schools as they see fit. This time, the fight is not about curriculum or masking, but about whether states still have the paltry authority to require children to use the children's restroom at school.

This is not an exaggeration, as the problem continues to develop:

It is important to understand how compliance with the left's radical gender identity agenda would destroy the educational experiences of students - girls in particular. The Biden administration's own fact sheet on its guidelines indicates that preventing a boy from using the girls' restroom would be discrimination if the boy identifies as a girl. Similarly, the fact sheet suggests that preventing a boy from trying out for the girls' cheerleading squad would be discrimination if the boy identifies as a girl. This is what the left wants to see in Alabama schools.

"Coercion through federal funding."

Although it may sound strange, it is not a mistake when Marshall appears to mix Agriculture with Education. The formula that the federal government has found is to threaten to reduce the aid that the Department of Agriculture manages and delivers to the states. Programs under its purview include the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition program, and the Child Nutrition Program (including the school lunch program). The Alabama prosecutor stresses that "these programs strike a chord and come at a high price for states, which is why the Biden administration has found them to be ideal vehicles for forcing genderlessness in our state governments and, more specifically, in our public schools."

According to Marshall, with the latest USDA memo and accompanying administrative rule, "the Administration has launched a campaign to impose the left's extremist gender identity agenda on schoolchildren with the implicit threat that if states resist, their programs and public schools will receive less money from the federal government."

"Alabama's sovereignty is not for sale."

Marshall recalled that "the Constitution of the United States leaves no doubt as to the broad authority of the states over their own public schools." However, "the Biden Administration assumes that everything - even school children - has a price tag." Nevertheless, the prosecutor reminds us that "the duty of state leaders is not dollars. We are supposed to serve the interests of the people of our states, and the people of Alabama have clearly said, through their elected representatives, that they do not want the far left in Washington imposing sexual policy on their children."

As such, he ends with a resounding, "while I hope to preserve every penny of federal funding that this administration threatens, Alabama's sovereignty is not for sale."

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