A new class action to make US taxpayers fund federal employees’ “gender-affirming care”

August 10, 2026

Thanks to the LGB Courage Coalition’s Weekly News Roundup from Friday, I now know about a class action lawsuit recently filed on behalf of four federal employees who call themselves “trans” and/or nonbinary and one federal employee parent of a kid who calls himself “trans.” The plaintiffs are arguing that they have a right to federal (taxpayer-funded) coverage of so-called “gender-affirming care.” I’ll discuss the complaint below the paywall.

But first …

If you read nothing else today, please check out a Substack post from 2024 titled “Measuring the blast radius of a man in women’s sports.” It’s a guest post on Sarah Barker’s Substack The Female Category. I have been thinking about it since I read it when it was initially published, but I had not been able to track it down because I couldn’t remember the title or the source. I commented on it back then. And yesterday, completely randomly, someone liked my comment and Substack notified me of that fact. So I was able to track down the post itself. It’s amazing. It measures the impact of a single male athlete competing on a women’s team. Please use it when someone says “There are so few male athletes in women’s sports, it doesn’t really matter.” It does matter. Even one male athlete competing on a women’s team has a “blast radius” of an impact.

I put out a free and shareable podcast on Friday celebrating the 100th episode. It’s about why this Substack is important. Feel free to watch, like, and share it.

The Protecting College Sports Act is a bit of a mess. From what I can tell, the White House, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) all support it. The group ICONS, Riley Gaines, Jennifer Sey, and the Alliance Defending Freedom all refuse to get behind it until it’s fixed. A bunch of Congressional Democrats oppose it. What the heck? I know, it’s weird.

I was very confused about it, so I called my friend Kim Jones from ICONS on Friday. The gist appears to be that as written, the bill would exempt the NCAA from Title IX and from state laws that protect female-only sports by making it impossible for anyone to sue schools that allow male athletes to compete in women’s sports. ICONS, Riley Gaines, Jennifer Sey, and ADF (among others) all want it to be amended to close this loophole. I’m happy to be corrected if I’ve gotten that wrong.

It was scheduled for a vote on Friday, and lots of people were very concerned for a variety of conflicting reasons, but the Senate adjourned before voting. So now the Senate has a bit more time to fix it before a vote is taken. However, the reason Cantwell likes it is that it gives the NCAA a pass. If it’s fixed to close that loophole, it will probably lose her support. As I said, it’s all a mess.

Beyond that, all the internet has been able to talk about since Friday is the fact that two male former NBA players have announced their intention to try out for a spot in the WNBA next season. One of them is Enes Kanter and the other is Royce White. Kanter is 6’10”. White is 6’8”. This is all coming on the heels of Sophie Cunningham, a guard with the Indiana Fever, explaining that she doesn’t think girls should have to compete against men.

Mr. Menno did a terrific interview with Jen Sey and Amy Sousa about what I am calling Sophie Fever, which came out on Saturday.

They both know exactly what they’re doing. White’s 5-minute interview is especially worth a watch. He said:

I’m transgender. I’m a woman. I identify as sometimes identifying as a woman for purpose of basketball, professional basketball, so I’ll be declaring for the WNBA draft in 2027 as well.

I think I’d be unstoppable. But I’m a team-first guy. I’m a pass-first kind of player. I do the little things. I led my team in all five major stat categories at Iowa State University, so I do a little bit of everything. I’ll do whatever the coach needs me to do. I’ll do whatever the girls need me to do.

I think it’s only fair.

When asked if there was anything the WNBA could do to keep him out, White said: “I think the WNBA could come out and make a definitive statement about guys with a pair of balls playing in the Women’s Association.” Yes, yes, they could. Your move, WNBA.

After the announcements, all of the people who have been saying for ten years that men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports if they say they’re women are suddenly very upset that men are demanding to compete in women’s sports if they say they’re women. They’re saying this is a “stunt” and a “hoax.” Yes, yes it is. All of “trans” is a hoax, as many of us have been saying for a very long time.

The LGB Courage Coalition has posted a terrific piece about all of this titled “Dear WNBA, It’s Safe to Make Sense Now: So stop virtue-signaling, start SRY screening, and remember the lesbians.”

Speaking of men in women’s sports, please check out and like a video from 2022 by Terven Priestess titled “No Thank You.” I promise, it’s really fun. And if you’d like, check out a different video from 2023 by Francis Aaron titled “Train Harder.” They’re both on the topic of getting men the heck out of women’s sports. Both are great, but I have a slight preference for Terven Priestess’s.

I really appreciated a recent post from Amy Sousa on why the movement to protect women’s sex-based rights and to stop the abolition of sex (my words, but I think Amy would agree with them) is more than any of its individual leaders.

Jennifer Sey has posted a terrific summary of what some female tennis players have been saying about a recent WTA announcement that pro tennis players will be tested for sex.

A woman named Erica Avery got a strong letter published in The Boston Globe on August 3. It concerns a recent Senate primary debate between Massachusetts Democrats Seth Moulton and Ed Markey. She said:

Moulton shouldn’t have backtracked

Seth Moulton is missing an opportunity. He was attacked by a mob and backed down after he spoke out on behalf of women and girls after the 2024 election. What if he had held his ground and stood up for women, children, fairness, science, and free speech? It’s not just liberal feminists like me, but a majority of Democratic voters who are opposed to transgender women playing in women’s sports. Many of us are similarly opposed to transgender women in women’s prisons, and to giving drugs and surgery to healthy gender-nonconforming children. Many Democrats, and even some Republicans, are eager to elect a Democrat who will oppose not only Trump but the authoritarian far-left. That’s definitely not Ed Markey. What a shame it isn’t Seth Moulton.

I did some digging into who she is, and found several articles she has published in local papers, including one from May in the Daily Hampshire Gazette titled “Supporting single-sex spaces isn’t conservative” and another from last year in the Greenfield Corridor titled “A safe city for all” (about the importance of allowing kids who don’t conform to sex stereotypes to grow into healthy adulthood without hormones or surgery). Go Erica Avery!

But this post is about a new class action lawsuit brought by several federal employees, demanding that US taxpayers foot the bill for “gender-affirming care.” The case adds to the growing number of cases that threaten the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, and for that reason, I love it (even though I don’t think taxpayers should have to foot the bill for anyone’s “gender-affirming care”).

Read on to learn more.

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