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Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha joined 11 other states’ attorneys general Tuesday in filing suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for what the multistate coalition argues is unlawful discrimination against transgender people via new strictures placed on federal grant funding.
“This is yet another distraction from an Administration that would rather target marginalized groups than do anything to help the American people,” Neronha said in a statement. “It hasn’t worked before and it won’t work here.”
The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island and targets what it dubs as HHS’ “Gender Conditions” — a set of certification and compliance rules attached to federal grants in a way that forces recipients to honor President Donald Trump’s January 2025 executive order which limits the federal definition of sex to a strictly binary model.
“Under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., HHS has wasted no time in illegally implementing the EO’s [Executive Order’s] discriminatory directives,” the lawsuit reads.
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