(June 22, 2026): Alpha News reports on Southeastern Legal Foundation’s (SLF) latest free speech lawsuit tackling unconstitutional college speech codes. This time, SLF filed a lawsuit on behalf of Young America’s Foundation (YAF) against the University of Minnesota, which maintains policies forcing students to conform to woke gender ideology.

The lawsuit targets several policies, including the sexual harassment and discrimination policies, the student code of conduct, and an “equity and access” policy. All of the policies work together to scare students into silence because students could be punished for expressing views like “men should not compete in women’s sports or use their bathrooms,” “there are only two genders,” or “sex is immutable.”

SLF President Kim Hermann states, “College campuses are meant to be a place where students are allowed to freely express their views and opinions. The University of Minnesota’s actions fly right in the face of this, enforcing policies that prevent students who believe in biological sex from voicing their right to speak freely on gender identity or transgenderism … It sounds to me like the school wants to be a safe place for some students but not all.”

YAF President Scott Walker says, “The fact that there are any universities in the US attempting to suppress certain views that they deem wrong is a complete outrage. While students at the University of Minnesota should just have to worry about their classwork, they now also have to worry about violating these policies that are infringing on their rights to speak freely. Not only is this unfair to students, and particularly conservative students, but it’s completely unconstitutional.”

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