According to far left MN Democrats, keeping boys out of girls sports and locker rooms is a bigoted, hateful, and transphobic position. Rather than side with common sense, Democrats continue to demand that society bends to the will of mentally ill people with gender dysphoria despite the issue being a major factor in why they lost the 2024 Presidential race in a landslide. This is not the position of the fringe of the Democrat Party, this is the position of the entire MN Democrat Party!

On Tuesday, April 7th, State House Republicans attempted to suspend the House Rules and immediately take up HF2685, the bill banning boys in girls sports. Debate continued back and forth with Democrats exposing how radical and disingenuous they are. The full floor debate can be viewed here.

Radical Left weirdos David Gottfried (40B), Kim Hicks (25A), and others falsely implied that the legislation would require creepy genital checks for children. Of course, they fail to mention that a birth certificate would state which sex a child is and their perverted hypothetical only exposes their own obscure tendencies. 

In one unique attempt at deflection, Democrat Erin Koegel (39A) started talking about Iran! As is well known, Iran is one of the most brutal regimes to women! Koegel wasn't making that point, instead she was complaining about Trump. One’s opinion of the ongoing conflict with Iran has NOTHING to do with the bill that was on the floor and was simply another Democratic tactic of obfuscation.

When conservative Rep. Drew Roach (58B) took the floor and argued for protecting female sports and spaces, a Democrat who thinks she is a they/them, DWI Brion Curran (36B), repeatedly interrupted Roach to raise bogus points of order. During one of those points of order, Curran hilariously claimed that Rep. Roach was glaring down the Queer Caucus while using the word “Disgusting”. See below:

Many legislators commended the floor speech given by Rep. & Governor candidate Peggy Bennett (23A) as she recalled girls sports being originally introduced in her high school and her excitement to play. She further noted how allowing boys would have destroyed the entire purpose of girls' sports. While Bennett appears to undoubtedly be a nice lady who was probably a great school teacher, she has failed to gain traction in her Governor campaign and has been far too passive during her time in office with a FAILING lifetime score of 48.65% in the 2025 A4L Scorecard. Rather than fighting radical Democrats who no-showed the start of the 2025 legislative session, Bennett argued Republicans couldn’t do anything but twiddle their thumbs.

In the end, there was not a single Democrat to vote for a common sense bill that puts Minnesota in line with federal rulings and law. Every single swing district Democrat votes in line with the far left on every vote that counts. See vote below:

With radical transgender laws on the books in Minnesota, our state will be burdened with Keith Ellison throwing away money on frivolous lawsuits defending laws that enable child abuse. As seen in the vote above, Democrat Kari Rehrauer (35B) did not vote and it is not immediately clear why. At the beginning of the floor session, it was announced that Rehrauer was voting remotely but when the vote was called, the House Clerk did not read Rehrauer's name to capture her vote. At the very least, skipping out on a vote while representing a swing district is unacceptable. Rehrauer won her district by just 1.22% in 2024.

Around 80% of Americans have common sense and know that boys should not play in girls sports. Despite this, swing district Democrats are willing to brazenly oppose the will of the majority in their districts. The following Democrats in districts won by 5% or less that voted to keep boys in girls sports. See in order of margin of victory in 2024:

• Brad Tabke (54A) - Decided by 0.06%
• Lucy Rehm (48B) - Decided by 0.87%
• Dan Wolgamott (14B) - Decided by 0.96%
• Matt Norris (32B) - Decided by 1.73%
• Josiah Hill (33B) - Decided by 2.70%
• Brion Curran (36B) - Decided by 3.28%
• Zack Stephenson (35A) - Decided by 3.82%
• Kristi Pursell (58A) - Decided by 4.95%

Swing district Democrats are supporting a radical agenda and hope their voters aren’t paying attention. If the House GOP leadership was smart, they would be forcing debates and votes on single issue bill after single issue bill to pass massively supported policies. With GOP control over the floor, there is no excuse for why there is not more positive action to reduce government, cut taxes, slash spending, return surplus dollars, and defend liberty.

A4L will continue to be the microphone of the grassroots liberty movement in MN and will hold politicians’ feet to the fire, regardless of party. We must protect our individual liberties and A4L will never waiver in the fight to protect those liberties. Democrats openly choosing to keep boys and transgender freaks in girls/female locker rooms and bathrooms may come to haunt them.