Surprise! Liberal 9th Circuit Upholds Idaho Law Protecting Locker Rooms, Showers
Dissolves injunction that blocked statute from going into effect
Under the regime of Joe Biden, transgenderism was a top priority, to be promoted everywhere across the federal government’s presence in America and around the world.
He tried to change the definition of the word “sex” in 60-year-old nondiscrimination statutes to promote the transgender agenda. He tried to require schools and public facilities to expose young girls to nude men who said they were women in showers and lockers.
But when President Donald Trump took office he simply stated a scientific fact, that there are two sexes, male and female, and that’s what the U.S. government recognizes, an announcement that undermined virtually every transgender argument across the nation.
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Now even the far-left 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which rarely supports a conservative concept, has done just that.
According to the ADF, that appeals court has voted to uphold an Idaho law “that protects the privacy, safety, and dignity of all K-12 students in public school locker rooms, showers, restrooms, and overnight stays.”
Media Alert: 9th Circuit Upholds Idaho Law Protecting Privacy, Dignity of All Students
Idaho’s law reflects common sense and biological reality, protecting all students’ privacy and safety in spaces like locker rooms and showers. Every day, we see the harms of gender ideology,…
— Raúl R. Labrador (@Raul_Labrador) March 20, 2025
Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, with the ADF, had asked the 9th Circuit in December to uphold a district court decision affirming the law while the case proceeds.
“Idaho’s law reflects common sense and biological reality, protecting all students’ privacy and safety in spaces like locker rooms and showers,” explained Labrador. “Every day, we see more examples of the harms of gender ideology, particularly to women and girls. We applaud the court’s decision to allow our state board of education to continue its job of preserving each student’s privacy, dignity, and safety and providing a quality education for Idaho’s children.”
Erin Hawley, for the ADF, said, “Idaho’s law protects every student’s dignity and worth by respecting their privacy and safety in locker rooms, showers, restrooms, and overnight stays. Girls and boys each deserve a private space to shower, undress, use the restroom, and sleep, and they shouldn’t have to worry about sharing these spaces with a member of the opposite sex. Girls and boys are biologically different, and we agree with the court’s decision to protect young students’ privacy and dignity by upholding Idaho’s law that recognizes their differences and accommodates each unique student.”
The state law, adopted last year, protects children’s privacy by ensuring that sex-specific facilities in K-12 public schools like showers, locker rooms, restrooms, and overnight accommodations remained sex-specific. The law also allows for single-user facilities.
However, extremists supporting the transgender ideologies promoted by Biden sued the state, insisting that public schools force girls to share those private spaces.
The law already had been affirmed by a lower court but activists insisted that the 9th Circuit give them an injunction, which it did.
However, the latest opinion reverses that decision, so the law now can take effect.
The appeals court said it saw ‘no argument at this stage that [Idaho law’s] mandatory segregation of [showers and overnight stays] on the basis of ‘biological sex’ is not substantially related to the State’s interests in: (1) not exposing students to the unclothed bodies of students of the opposite sex; and (2) protecting students from having to expose their own unclothed bodies to students of the opposite sex.”
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