A Florida Christian academy filed a lawsuit Wednesday over the threat of losing school-lunch funding for low-income students unless it complies with the Biden administration’s gender-identity policy on pronouns, sports and restrooms.
Grant Park Christian Academy in Tampa sued President Biden, the Agriculture Department, and Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried over the USDA Food and Nutrition Service’s May 5 guidance adding sexual and orientation and gender identity to Title IX, which bans sex discrimination in education.
The school reached out to Ms. Fried’s office, which administers the federal school-meals program, but was told participating schools must comply with “all federal program regulations,” according to the lawsuit filed in U.