{"id":18699,"date":"2025-07-03T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=18699"},"modified":"2025-07-03T21:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:58:42","slug":"us-supreme-court-to-hear-idahos-case-protecting-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/us-supreme-court-to-hear-idahos-case-protecting-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court to Hear Idaho\u2019s Case Protecting Women\u2019s Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BOISE<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador announced today that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Idaho\u2019s case to protect women\u2019s sports from biological males. The Court will review&nbsp;<em>Little v. Hecox<\/em>, where Attorney General Labrador is defending Idaho\u2019s Fairness in Women\u2019s Sports Act after the Ninth Circuit blocked enforcement of the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIdaho\u2019s women and girls deserve an equal playing field,\u201d <strong>said Attorney General Labrador.<\/strong> \u201cI am thrilled the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear our case. For too long, activists have worked to sideline women and girls in their own sports. Men and women are biologically different, and we hope the Court will allow states to end this injustice and ensure that men no longer create a dangerous, unfair environment for women to showcase their incredible talent and pursue the equal opportunities they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s decision to hear the case comes after Attorney General Labrador urged the Court to take action in a supplemental brief filed last week. Idaho\u2019s Fairness in Women\u2019s Sports Act, enacted in 2020 as the first law of its kind in the nation, protects female student-athletes by ensuring biological males cannot compete in women\u2019s sports categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ninth Circuit previously stopped Idaho\u2019s common-sense law from going into effect. The case represents a critical opportunity for the Court to clarify that states have the authority to protect women\u2019s athletics and ensure fair competition based on biological reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alliance Defending Freedom assisted both Idaho and West Virginia in defending the two laws. The Supreme Court will also hear a related case from West Virginia involving similar protections for women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ag.idaho.gov\/newsroom\/us-supreme-court-to-hear-idahos-case-protecting-womens-sports\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOISE&nbsp;\u2014 Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador announced today that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Idaho\u2019s case to protect women\u2019s sports from biological males. The Court will review&nbsp;Little v. Hecox, where Attorney General Labrador is defending Idaho\u2019s Fairness in Women\u2019s Sports Act after the Ninth Circuit blocked enforcement of the law. \u201cIdaho\u2019s women and girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":18700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[824,519,667,688,1062],"class_list":["post-18699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions-op-eds","tag-press-release","tag-sports","tag-supreme-court","tag-transgenderism","tag-women","cat-243-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18702,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699\/revisions\/18702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}