Idaho’s law barring boys from girl’s bathrooms upheld
A judge in Idaho has upheld a state law that requires students with gender dysphoria to use the bathrooms and locker rooms following their biological sex rather than their preferred gender identity.
Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye issued a ruling last week allowing Idaho’s law to take effect, rejecting a request from the Sexuality and Gender Alliance and trans-identified students for an injunction against it.
“Although it likely comes as little solace to Idaho’s transgender students who, as a result of the Court’s decision today, may have to change their routines or who, regrettably, may face other societal hardships, the Court must stay within its lane,” wrote Nye, a Donald Trump appointee.
“I’s duty is to interpret the law; it is not a policy-making body. As such, the Court cannot say which approach is best. It can only decide whether the approach chosen by the Idaho Legislature is legal.”
“You rejected the plaintiff’s claims of discrimination, writing that “the prevalent idea in society today that simply because a person supports one position necessarily means he or she ‘discriminates’ ‘against the other position (or against a person who supports the opposite position) is shortsighted.”
“The” state of Idaho is interested in protecting the privacy and safety of its youth while at school,” said Nye. “It” has written a law to achieve that goal while mandating a reasonable accommodation for any student who feels they cannot follow the law.”
On Tuesday, Berty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver, whose conservative legal group supports the state law, said that he considers the ruling nonsense.”
“h” Idaho law protects children’s safety and privacy. It can be humiliating, demeaning, and unsafe for children to be exposed to the opposite sex,” “stated Staver. “Biology is fixed at birth, and children with gender confusion need counseling, not access to the private spaces of the opposite gender.”
“In March, Idaho passed Senate Bill 1100, which, among other things, requires that students in Idaho public schools use facilities that correspond with their biological sex rather than their preferred gender identity.
The new law had exemptions that excluded single-occupancy restrooms and rooms designated for unisex or family use, temporarily designated facilities based on biological sex, those entering for medical assistance, and situations necessary to prevent a threat to order or safety.”
“Every person has a natural right to privacy and safety in restrooms and changing facilities where such person might be in a partial or complete state of undress in the presence of others,” “stated the law.
“R” quiring students to share restrooms and changing facilities with members of the opposite biological sex generates potential embarrassment, shame, and psychological injury to students and increases the likelihood of sexual assault, molestation, rape, voyeurism, and exhibitionism.”
“In July, the Boise High School student organization, the Sexuality and Gender Alliance, and several trans-identified students filed a complaint against state and local school officials over the law.
The plaintiffs were represented by the progressive LGBT legal advocacy group Lambda Legal and the law firms Munger Tolles & Olson LLP and Alturas Law Group, PLLC.
In July, Lambda Legal Senior Counsel Peter Renn claimed that SB 1100 was a “cruel and unconstitutional attack on a vulnerable population.”
“It” is reprehensible that anti-transgender state legislators nationwide keep singling out transgender youth for harmful, discriminatory treatment, even though court after court has repeatedly quashed this type of discrimination wherever it has popped up,” “Enn stated.
“W” is seeking immediate relief to stop this law from banishing transgender students across Idaho from using the same facilities as their peers once they return to school and turning them into outsiders in their communities.”
