A federal judge on Monday has temporarily blocked Idaho from enacting a law that bars transgender student athletes from competing in women and girls’ sports, as a lawsuit challenging the ban moves forward.
U.S. District Judge David Nye, a Trump appointee, put Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act on pause while he continues to decide whether the law violates the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th Amendment, noting that those suing Idaho over the Fairness Act “are likely to succeed in establishing the Act is unconstitutional as currently written.”
