Challenge to Idaho Transgender Athlete Ban Gets Green Light

A lawsuit challenging Idaho’s ban on transgender athletes participating in girls and women’s sports can go forward because the plaintiff’s temporary withdrawal from school doesn’t require dismissal.

Lindsey Hecox’s leave of absence from Boise State University doesn’t make the claims moot because she re-enrolled and is playing on the women’s club soccer team, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled.

“While Hecox did not try out for the women’s cross-country and track teams in Fall 2022, due to illness and her father’s passing last spring, she has declared that she has concrete plans to try out for ...