A 6-foot male pitcher threw 21 straight scoreless postseason innings and took a Minnesota girls' softball title from the girls who earned it.
Tim Walz watched it happen and told the federal government to mind its business.
The Trump DOJ just made him regret that.
Pam Bondi Puts Minnesota's $3 Billion in Federal Funding on the Line
Jack Brewer played safety for the Vikings, earned two degrees at the University of Minnesota, and was named team captain.
He knows that state.
When Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a 45-page federal lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League, Brewer told Fox News Digital exactly what he thought.
"I'm sick and tired of it," he said.
Minnesota is forcing girls to compete against biological males in sports designated exclusively for girls – and letting those same males walk into girls' locker rooms and bathrooms.
Washington put Minnesota on notice in September 2025 – comply with Title IX or face legal action.
Minnesota's education agencies looked at that warning, rejected the Trump administration's resolution agreement in December, and walked away from the table.
Bondi filed the lawsuit four months later.
"The Trump Administration does not tolerate flawed state policies that ignore biological reality and unfairly undermine girls on the playing field," she said.
Minnesota's bill for that defiance: $3 billion in annual federal education funding now hangs in the balance.
How a Male Pitcher Won the Champlin Park State Title and Started This Fight
In June 2025, a 6-foot male athlete named Marissa Rothenberger took the mound for Champlin Park's girls' softball team and pitched all 21 postseason innings without surrendering a single earned run.
Champlin Park won the 4A Minnesota state championship 6-0.
The girls of Bloomington-Jefferson stood in the dugout and watched.
One father in the stands said what every parent was thinking: "You can't help but wonder how things could have gone with an equal playing field."
The DOJ complaint names Rothenberger directly – citing a 12-1 record and a 0.74 ERA as evidence that female athletes were displaced.
A second biological male competed in girls' track and cross country in southeast Minnesota.
A 16-year-old girl at Stewartville High School was forced to share a bathroom with a male student and reported it to her principal.
The principal told her the boy could "be whoever they want to be."
Walz built that state.
He owns every part of it.
Jack Brewer Calls Out What Minnesota Democrats Won't Say
Brewer is a White House appointee on the Congressional Commission for the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, and he has former teammates and family members still navigating Minneapolis public schools right now.
He sees what Democrat priorities actually look like on the ground.
"The fact that you have billions of dollars coming from the federal government to fund these twisted ideologies," Brewer told Fox News Digital.
"This is the reason why you have such an increase in transgenderism across the United States, because of states like Minnesota literally brainwashing children."
Then Brewer said something Democrats will never touch.
While Minnesota burns political capital putting males in girls' locker rooms, it isn't spending that same energy educating its most underserved black students.
"If they really cared about equality, then they would actually go out and put funds into educating their most underserved people, educating their children of color," Brewer said.
"But they don't do that."
He praised Trump and Bondi without hesitation.
"President Trump and Pam Bondi are right to take on this issue, and I applaud their continued leadership in protecting young women and girls – especially athletes – by defending the original intent of Title IX," he said.
Minnesota Defied Trump on Title IX and Now Girls Sports Hang in the Balance
Attorney General Keith Ellison dismissed the DOJ lawsuit as "a sad attempt to get attention" and filed his own preemptive lawsuit against Trump back in April 2025, insisting Minnesota's human rights law supersedes federal authority.
Minnesota is already one of three states – alongside Maine and California – that Bondi has hauled into federal court over males competing in girls' sports.
The rulings that come out of these three cases set the rules for every school district in America.
Minnesota didn't just resist Trump's executive order – it ran straight at the federal government and dared Washington to follow through.
Washington followed through.
The girls who lost a fair shot at a state championship paid first.
Now Minnesota's taxpayers find out what $3 billion walking out the door actually feels like – and Democrats in St. Paul have no one to blame but themselves.
Sources:
- Jackson Thompson, "Ex-Vikings captain is 'sick' Minnesota is in legal conflict with Trump admin over males in girls' sports," Fox News, April 1, 2026.
- "DOJ sues Minnesota for allowing transgender girls to compete in girls sports," FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul, March 30, 2026.
- "Justice Department Sues Minnesota Over Policies Allowing Boys to Compete in Girls' Sports," NM News Service, March 30, 2026.
- "Trans Pitcher Marissa Rothenberger Drags Champlin Park to MN Girls Softball State Title," OutKick, June 6, 2025.
- "DOJ sues Minnesota over transgender athlete policies in girls' sports," Washington Examiner, March 30, 2026.