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The Idaho Attorney General, Raul Labrador, has been working in a case that could determine the future of women’s sports in the United States.
Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Little vs. case. Hecox, which began in 2020 when Idaho became a precursor of states with laws that prohibit trans athletes in women’s and girls sports. A Trans athlete in Boise State, Lindsay Hecox, sued the State to compete in the university’s female cross country team.
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Idaho Attorney General, Raul Labrador, speaks outside the Supreme Court on April 24, 2024 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
The United States District Court for the Idaho district granted a preliminary court order, which blocked the law of being applied because it determined that the plaintiffs had probably demonstrating that the law is unconstitutional. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed the court order, but now the Supreme Court will have the opportunity to intervene.
However, Labrador hopes that the Supreme Court will throw a decision with a broader impact than simply letting a State make its own specific law on the issue. He wants a new national precedent. “I think that’s what Labrador told Pak Gazette Digital in an exclusive interview.
“I think they will have a great decision about whether men can participate in women’s sports and, more importantly, how to determine whether transgender people are protected by federal constitutions and state and federal laws.”
The AG shared what this lawyer argued.
“The most important thing [argument] It is that the 14th amendment does not prevent a state from protecting its girls when it comes to participating in sports and that there is no special classification that allows boys to participate in girls’ sports, “he said.
Labrador’s first exhibition to the small case of Hecox was when it was presented in 2020, three years before IDAHO was. He worked as a legal advisor in the management of the case at that time, believing that it was a matter of “common sense.”
However, Labrador also said he witnessed how the problem had not been completely understood by conventional society. He blames the “scientific community.”
“For a period of time, the company was not very sure of how to deal with that,” Labrador said.
“Somehow, the scientific community began to find this scientific evidence that there was no difference between a boy who was making the transition to a girl and a girl who was born a biological girl. And we knew that it was ridiculous, and that it was, it flew to common sense, and I think that now science and I think that the debate has become a point where people realize that they can speak freely of these issues.”
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Two years before Labrador assumed the position of AG of the State, two university students joined the defendant’s list.
The former women’s athletes from the Idaho State University, Madison Kenyon and Mary Kate Marshall, joined the lawsuit in 2021 as defendants arranged after having to compete against a man during his university careers.
“My coach sat us in the room and told us that we would be competing against a male athlete at a specific meeting and simply let us know. And I remember sitting there and something like that, looking around the room like, ‘Well, what do my teammates think about this? What do we do?'” Kenyon told Pak Gazette Digital.
“Then, for us, it was not about whether I am going to compete or not. I will put everything I have and see what happens. And indeed, this male athlete beat me, beaten all my teammates and that continued to happen the whole season. So, it was when I said: ‘This is not fair’.”
Kenyon added that he felt that the situation was “swept under the carpet” when it first happened.
“I think many people saw that this was obviously not fair and this will not last. And it was going to be a problem, and they did not act accordingly.”
Kenyon said he was inspired to join the demand for a task in his kind of speech in the state of Idaho, where he wrote a speech about legislation he wanted to support.
For Labrador, the support of young women from Idaho was “supremely important” and expensive for women due to the common treatment of people standing and talk about the subject on the opposite side.
“Society was not kind to them, local media were not being friendly to them, they were pressing much for pairs to give on this subject, they were called all kinds of names, ‘intolerant’ and other things,” Labrador said.
Idaho Attorney General, Raul Labrador, speaks outside the Supreme Court on April 24, 2024 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
Labrador said that he saw that the same treatment happened to the other families in their state that were affected when an athlete Trans competed against their daughters in the high school competition.
“The media try to embarrass these families to silence and many times these families come out and talk, but many times they are afraid to express their opinions for what the media do to the media.” Labrador said.
Now, after years of generalized social evolution on the issue, and the political impulse of President Donald Trump and the unanimous position of the Republican Party on the subject, a new federal precedent could enter into force as soon as next year.
