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Idaho Only State To Bar Transgender Athletes From Women’s Student Athletics. Judge Just Ruled To Block That Law.

Hank Berrien
Idaho Only State To Bar Transgender Athletes From Women’s Student Athletics. Judge Just Ruled To Block That Law.
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On Monday, a judge appointed to Idaho’s federal bench by President Trump issued an injunction to block the state’s “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” which had blocked men claiming they are women from competing in women’s student athletics. On March 30, 2020, Idaho Governor Bradley Little had signed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act into law.

Judge David C. Nye wrote:

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