Challenge to Idaho Trans Restroom Law Sent Back to Lower Court

A suit contesting Idaho’s law requiring students to use restrooms that correspond with their sex assigned at birth must return to the district court to develop a more fulsome record, the Ninth Circuit ruled.

The present record doesn’t show whether Boise High School’s alternative for transgender students—using single-occupancy restrooms rather than facilities that don’t align with their gender identity—is adequate in terms of accessibility and mitigating their potential psychological harms, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said. The court’s Tuesday order remanded the case to the district court for limited fact-finding before the Ninth Circuit rules on ...