15 GOP governors urge Biden admin to stop using school lunch program to push ‘radical agenda’ on girls sports

FIRST ON FOX: Over a dozen Republican governors are urging the Biden administration to halt a proposed rule change that could block federal funding for school lunches at schools that keep transgender athletes off of girls’ sports teams.

In a letter to President Biden Wednesday, 15 governors called the proposal to tie school lunch program funding to openness to transgender participation on sports teams a “misguided” interpretation of Title IX rules, which prohibit discrimination based on sex. 

“To be clear, your Administration would take lunch money away from our kids and grandkids in pursuit of a radical agenda that has no basis in science and is not supported by the vast majority of the American people,” the governors, led by Republican Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, wrote in the letter obtained by Fox News Digital.

Proposals from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Education’s (DOE) proposal would interpret Title IX to restrict discrimination based on gender identity, which the governors — and a group of state attorneys general — say is a misuse of the law and would put school-aged girls in danger.

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“By expanding Title IX to include gender identity and sexual orientation, your Administration puts girls and women of all ages at risk,” the governors wrote in the letter. “The DOEd rule would force any institution that receives federal financial aid to allow biological males to access women’s and girls’ locker rooms, bathrooms, and dorms, depriving them of privacy and safety at school. The rule ensures that a far-left ideology on gender will be taught in schools nationwide.”

The USDA’s Food and Nutrition service (FNS) oversees several nutrition programs, including the National School Lunch Program, which provides free or low-cost lunches for students and fed nearly 30 million kids per day, on average, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

On May 5, USDA announced that it would investigate claims of discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals, including transgender students, and act accordingly, which conservative activists quickly viewed as threatening schools that restrict biological men who identify as transgender from competing on…