High school group challenging Idaho’s trans bathroom ban drops lawsuit after student’s death (cw suicide)
High school group challenging Idaho’s trans bathroom ban drops lawsuit after student’s death (cw suicide)
High school group challenging Idaho’s trans bathroom ban drops lawsuit after student’s death
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A lawsuit challenging Idaho's transgender bathroom ban in K-12 public schools could end soon, after a group at Boise High School suing over the law dropped the case.
The move came after a transgender student who was part of Boise High School's Sexuality and Gender Alliance died by suicide, and another stopped attending the school, the group's lawyers wrote in a legal agreement reached Wednesday requesting the case be dismissed.
Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador hailed the case's end in an announcement Thursday morning, saying the law "is fully in effect."
"From the district court to the Ninth Circuit, we defended Idaho's right to protect students' privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms," Labrador said in a statement. "Idaho families can be confident that this law is fully in effect and will remain so."