Arts Groups Challenge Gender Ideology Prohibition for Grants

A group of art and theater nonprofits is suing the National Endowment for the Arts, alleging the agency’s new gender ideology prohibition for grants exceeds its statutory authority and violates their constitutional rights.

The NEA’s new grant eligibility requirements excluding any projects that appear to promote gender ideology is both vague and “a textbook example of viewpoint discrimination” in violation of the First Amendment, the arts organizations allege in a complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the District of
Rhode Island.

The groups challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order on gender ideology—which have previously received NEA funding ...