Dear Friends, A federal district court in Alaska recently ordered state prison officials to refer an inmate for sex-change surgery consultation. The judge acknowledged that Alaska’s doctors had sound medical reasons for not recommending the consultation, but he felt legally bound by a flawed court precedent to overrule them anyway. Idaho joined Indiana in leading […]
BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador, together with Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, and a coalition of 24 total states, has filed an amicus curiae brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals strongly arguing that the Eighth Amendment does not require states to provide prisoners with risky, controversial, and medically debated sex-change surgeries. The case, Emalee […]
BOISE — Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced today that Idaho defeated an attempt to block enforcement of House Bill 264, the state’s university restroom privacy law. U.S. District Judge David Nye denied a motion for preliminary injunction that sought to suspend the law while litigation continues, meaning Idaho’s protections for student privacy remain fully enforceable during the […]
Dear Friends, Last week, I joined 25 attorneys general demanding the NCAA restore championships, records, and awards to female athletes who were cheated out of what they earned. For years, biological males competed in women’s sports and stole honors that belonged to the women who trained for them. The letter to NCAA President Charlie Baker […]
BOISE — Attorney General Raúl Labrador won a preliminary victory protecting student privacy in the case Sexuality and Gender Alliance v. Critchfield, et al., after United States District Judge David Nye ruled that the plaintiff is unlikely to prevail in their challenge to Idaho’s law requiring public schools to designate multi-occupancy restrooms for use by only one sex. […]
In 2019, the University of Montana allowed a runner named June Eastwood, a biological male who had adopted a female identity, to compete against women. Among Eastwood’s competitors were two young women attending Idaho State University, Madison Kenyon and Mary Kate Marshall, who were unjustly defeated by Eastwood on multiple occasions. The following year, the Idaho Legislature passed HB 500, making Idaho the first state […]
Dear Friends, Five years ago, Idaho made history by becoming the first state in the country to pass a law protecting women’s sports from biological males. This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear our case, Little v. Hecox, giving us the opportunity to defend that law before the nation’s highest court. After years of […]
BOISE — Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced today that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Idaho’s case to protect women’s sports from biological males. The Court will review Little v. Hecox, where Attorney General Labrador is defending Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act after the Ninth Circuit blocked enforcement of the law. “Idaho’s women and girls […]
BOISE — Attorney General Raúl Labrador filed a supplemental brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant immediate review of Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act rather than sending the case back to a lower court. The brief argues that vital constitutional questions about sex-based classifications and women’s athletic opportunities require the Court’s urgent attention. “While […]
Dear Friends, After two years of fighting in federal court, we’ve won. Challengers to Idaho’s Vulnerable Child Protection Act have dismissed their lawsuit entirely and Idaho is now free to fully enforce our law protecting children in Idaho from harmful and irreversible gender transition procedures. This victory is more than just a legal win on […]
How transgender-identifying individuals are housed in federal prisons is not a theoretical question. It directly affects the safety, privacy, and dignity of inmates, particularly women. Under the Biden Administration, federal agencies were instructed to disregard biological sex and could instead classify inmates based solely on how they self-identified. That policy treated personal identity claims as if they were biological facts and authorized prison […]
[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador leads a 24-state amicus brief with Attorney General Todd Rokita of Indiana, defending an executive order by President Trump setting new guidelines affecting federal inmates claiming to experience gender dysphoria. Federal and state authorities are operating well within the boundaries of the U.S. Constitution when they deny inmates’ requests for […]