Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (D) sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Monday over the agency’s recent decision to withhold federal funds from the state over its refusal to comply with the Trump administration’s orders to ban transgender athletes from girl’s and women’s sports in schools.

The complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine alleges the USDA’s funding freeze is “blatantly unlawful” and hampers the state’s ability to feed schoolchildren who rely on nutrition assistance programs.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, named in Monday’s lawsuit, said in announcing the freeze on Wednesday that the action would affect funding only “for certain administrative and technological functions in schools” and would not affect federal feeding programs.

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