Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a preemptive lawsuit Tuesday against Republican President Donald Trump seeking to block his administration from acting against Minnesota in the way it’s taking on Maine under a federal push to ban transgender athletes from girls and women’s sports.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over the President’s February 5 anti-transgender executive order that directed federal agencies to withhold funding from educational programs that allow trans girls to play on sports teams aligned with their gender.