Republican attorneys general from more than 20 states are suing the Biden administration over a new Department of Agriculture guidance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.
The lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of Tennessee and is being led by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery, who has claimed that the federal government is infringing upon states’ ability to enact laws that discriminate against LGBTQ+ people by threatening to revoke federal funding for US Department of Agriculture nutrition programmes like school lunch.
