This week, the legislative session is over, but they’ll be back! And, I discuss a critical new case filed by True North Legal and Alliance Defending Freedom. Finally, we discuss the presidential ambitions of three Minnesotans: Dean Phillips, Amy Klobuchar, and Tim Walz. 

Don't forget that following Minnesota Family Council’s 2025 Annual Dinner, we're encouraging supporters to take advantage of our $250,000 matching challenge and make a gift to support our work before June 1. Go to mfc.org/donate to support our work!

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This week, True North Legal announced a partnership with our legal allies at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) in a critical new case: Female Athletes United v. Minnesota, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.

This lawsuit challenges a Minnesota policy that allows male athletes to compete in girls’ high school sports—a policy that has harmed young women and violated the equal opportunity protections guaranteed by Title IX.

Our own Renee K. Carlson, General Counsel of True North Legal, is serving as co-counsel in the case. She offered this powerful statement:

“For more than a decade I have been fighting on the frontlines for female athletes when the MSHSL first adopted its discriminatory policy erasing girls from girls’ sports and have worked tirelessly to overturn it since. Defending against aggressive attempts to push women and girls out of their own sports is always the right thing to do, not just because it’s a good policy or lawful.

At the heart of this issue is something deeper than sports. We’re in a cultural battle over truth—about the real, physiological differences between men and women. Those differences matter because they’re what make girls’ sports worth protecting.”

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Minnesota's 2025 Legislative Session

The deadline for Minnesota's legislative session arrived on Monday, May 19, with much budget work remaining for the Minnesota legislature. Legislators have spent this week negotiating policy and budget priorities after receiving the joint budget agreement from leaders of the House of Representatives, the State Senate, and the Governor's office last Thursday, May 15. 

A special session will be called by Governor Walz, as early as the Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, and legislators will vote omnibus policy packages into state law. Legislators are looking to finish up legislative work before June 1, when layoff notices in state agencies would be sent. If the legislature is unable to agree to budget proposals, the government would go into a shutdown effective July 1.

We plan to send you a full legislative update once the legislature completes its work as we track many public policy provisions of the omnibus bills. A couple remaining issues which we are monitoring in omnibus bills are the following:

Preserving funding for Nonpublic Students

Passing a small expansion to the Child Tax Credit, granting tax relief for qualifying families when the family has had a baby within the taxable year

Stopping the legalization of Mobile Sports Gambling

WATCH NOW: This video features Rep. Peggy Scott (R-Andover) talking about the work of Minnesota Family Council and True North Legal in securing big wins for protecting girls' sports in Minnesota, and MFC volunteer Curtis discussing how getting involved in MFC's work is rewarding and makes a big difference.

True North Legal is an initiative of Minnesota Family Institute, fighting to protect life, family, and religious freedom in our legal system. Learn more about True North Legal and its crucial work at truenorthlegal.org.