Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration allocated nearly $449,000 in taxpayer money to a left-wing legal nonprofit as part of an apparent “sue-and-settlement” plan that put the first transgender inmate in a state women’s prison, The Post can exclusively reveal.
In 2023, the Democratic vice presidential nominee’s office shelled out $448,904 to Saint Paul-based Gender Justice, one year after the nonprofit filed a sex discrimination complaint against Minnesota’s Department of Corrections (DOC), according to a review of public records shared with The Post by the taxpayer watchdog group OpenTheBooks.com.
The complaint argued that the DOC was discriminating by housing the transgender inmate, Christina Lusk, in a men’s prison and denying access to sex-reassignment procedures including a vaginoplasty.
Lusk had received hormone therapy and pursued genital reconstructive surgery before being arrested in December 2018 and charged with meth possession, receiving a five-year prison sentence.
At the time, Lusk was already on conditional release following a 2012 DWI offense.