States’ Lawsuit Against Biological Reality Reveals Modernist Apostasy
Catholic News Agency reports on January 14, 2026, that twelve U.S. states have filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14168 which defines sex as “binary and immutable, grounded in reproductive biology.” The plaintiffs allege that requiring grant recipients to certify compliance with this biological definition violates administrative procedures and constitutional protections, claiming it excludes “transgender, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-diverse individuals.” The article frames this legal action as defending “transgender communities” against policies described as “gender ideology extremism,” while quoting progressive politicians who condemn the executive order as “discriminatory” and “harmful.” This represents yet another attempt to impose gender ideology through judicial activism against divinely established natural law.
Rebellion Against God’s Created Order
The lawsuit constitutes open defiance of lex naturalis (natural law) which forms the foundation of Catholic moral theology. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas explicitly teaches: “He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things!” (n.27), affirming Christ’s kingship over both spiritual and temporal realms. The executive order’s biological definition merely recognizes the self-evident truth that “male and female He created them” (Gen 1:27) – a reality consistently upheld by the pre-conciliar Magisterium from Leo XIII’s Arcanum to Pius XII’s Sacra Virginitas.
“The Gender Conditions acknowledge, and require recipients to acknowledge, ‘that [the Title IX] certification reflects a change in the government’s position.'”
This admission proves the plaintiffs reject immutable truth in favor of ideological relativism. The complaint’s outrage at restoring biological reality exposes the Gnostic hatred for creation inherent in gender ideology – a heresy condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors which rejects the notion that “human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Proposition 3).
Modernist Subversion of Law and Language
The article’s uncritical adoption of terms like “gender-diverse individuals” and “transgender communities” demonstrates complicity in what Pius X called “the synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis 39). By framing biological reality as “discriminatory,” the plaintiffs employ the modernist tactic described in the Holy Office’s Lamentabili Sane (1907): “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Proposition 58).
“Recipients must certify compliance, according to the complaint, with violations risking funding termination and liability under the False Claims Act or criminal statutes.”
This threat reveals the totalitarian impulse behind gender ideology, seeking to punish those who uphold natural law. Such coercion directly contravenes Pius IX’s condemnation of states that “do not want to recognize the reign of our Savior” (Quas Primas, Introduction). The lawsuit’s claim to protect “civil rights” inverts morality by making sin a legal entitlement – precisely the “cult of man” denounced in the Syllabus of Errors as replacing divine law with human whim (Proposition 77).
Omission of Catholic Teaching on Sexual Morality
The article’s glaring silence regarding Catholic sexual ethics proves its modernist orientation. Not once does it reference the Church’s perennial teaching that “any use of the sexual faculty exercised outside the sacramental bond, no matter for what reason, is gravely contrary to divine law” (Pius XII, Sacra Virginitas 32). By focusing solely on funding mechanisms, CNA avoids confronting the ontological rebellion against human nature inherent in transgenderism – a silence that makes them accomplices in what Pius X identified as “the abolition of the necessity of divine religion” (Lamentabili, Introduction).
Judicial Usurpation of Divine Authority
The lawsuit’s demand that courts override biological reality constitutes blasphemous presumption against God’s created order. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations…nor do we consider him outside, because he could not remove anyone by sentence who himself had already shown that he must be removed” (n.27). The plaintiffs’ attempt to force acceptance of gender ideology through funding blackmail exemplifies the “tyranny of relativism” Benedict XVI warned against – itself rooted in the modernist rejection of objective truth condemned by St. Pius X.
The states’ legal action embodies the apostasy foretold in Pius X’s Pascendi: “They affirm that the Church…is subject to continuous evolution” (Proposition 54). By attacking biological sex – the very foundation of marriage and family – these plaintiffs wage war against Christ the King’s social reign. Their lawsuit constitutes not merely legal overreach but spiritual rebellion requiring anathema sit rather than judicial remedy.
Source:
Multistate lawsuit challenges ‘gender conditions’ tied to HHS funding (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 14.01.2026