{"id":1576738,"date":"2022-07-28T13:34:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T17:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576738"},"modified":"2022-07-28T13:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T17:34:14","slug":"22-states-sue-over-gender-identity-rule-controlling-29-billion-for-poor-kids-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/22-states-sue-over-gender-identity-rule-controlling-29-billion-for-poor-kids-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"22 States Sue Over \u2018Gender Identity\u2019 Rule Controlling $29 Billion For Poor Kids\u2019 Meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F22-states-sue-over-gender-identity-rule-controlling-29-billion-for-poor-kids-meals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576738&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Twenty-two states are suing President Joe Biden\u2019s administration for threatening to zap school-meal program funding unless the states comply with new rules surrounding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-gender-identity\">gender identity<\/a> and sexual orientation in schools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/content\/dam\/tn\/attorneygeneral\/documents\/pr\/2022\/pr22-24-complaint.pdf\">The lawsuit<\/a> represents the latest volley fired in the ongoing battles between state officials and Biden, who they accuse of usurping their authority through his executive orders.<\/p>\n<p>The states complain that a federal nondiscrimination <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2022\/06\/14\/2022-12748\/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-civil-rights-update-to-the-federal-state-agreement\">rule,<\/a> set to take effect Aug. 15, seeks to impose \u201cobligations that apparently stretch as far as ending sex-separated living facilities and athletics and mandating the use of biologically inaccurate preferred pronouns,\u201d said the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, Tennessee, on July 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration\u2019s sweeping rhetoric treats normal practices, such as sex-separated bathrooms and athletics, as \u2018discriminatory\u2019 even though DOJ and the Department of Education treated those as legal, nondiscriminatory practices as recently as last year,\u201d the suit says.<\/p>\n<p>A fact sheet about the proposed policy cited examples of discriminatory acts, as interpreted by bureaucrats, under the new rule: \u201cPreventing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-transgender\">transgender<\/a> high school girl [a biological male] from using the girls\u2019 restroom\u201d and \u201cpreventing a transgender high school girl [a biological male] from \u201ctry[ing] out for the girls\u2019 cheerleading team,\u201d the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ag-rokita.jpg\"><\/a> Indiana attorney general Todd Rokita. (Courtesy of Todd Rokita\u2019s website) <\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee and Indiana attorneys general are heading the coalition of states alleging that Biden and the Department of Agriculture, which oversees the meal program, \u201cissued directives and rules that misconstrue the law and impose unlawful requirements,\u201d the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n<p>The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provided $2.6 billion to Tennessee last year; in sum, the 22 states received almost $29 billion through the program for low-income schoolchildren, working families, the elderly, and people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana attorney general Todd Rokita railed against the \u201cextreme left-wing agenda\u201d that he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-two states are suing President Joe Biden\u2019s administration for threatening to zap school-meal program funding unless the states comply with new rules surrounding gender identity and sexual orientation in schools. 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