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(Brett Davis)<\/em> \u2013 A coalition of 21 Democratic attorneys general, led by Washington state\u2019s Bob Ferguson and New York\u2019s Letitia James, have filed a brief seeking to block an Idaho law that prohibits transgender students from using public school restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity.<\/p>\n Idaho has a Republican trifecta, with the\u00a0Republican Party controlling the office of governor and both chambers of the state Legislature<\/p>\n This summer, a lawsuit was filed in federal court on behalf of Boise High School\u2019s Sexuality and Gender Alliance, and Rebecca Roe, a seventh-grade transgender high school senior who is using the moniker to protect her identity. The lawsuit sought to keep Idaho school officials from enforcing\u00a0Senate Bill 1100<\/strong><\/a>, which\u00a0also allows students to sue schools for $5,000 or more for each instance where they encounter a transgender student in a facility barred by law, according to a Thursday\u00a0news release<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from Ferguson\u2019s office.<\/p>\n Last month, federal Judge David Nye denied a request for a preliminary injunction against Idaho school officials to keep them from enforcing the law.<\/p>\n In response, the plaintiffs asked Nye to put his order on hold while they appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. At the same time, they asked the 9th Circuit to stay the order, which it\u00a0did<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on Oct. 26.<\/p>\n \u201cAllowing students to use bathrooms and changing rooms that correspond with their gender identity helps them feel accepted and does not pose a threat to anyone,\u201d Ferguson said in the news release. \u201cIn Washington, where the rights of transgender students are protected, public schools report no instances of transgender students harassing others in bathrooms or locker rooms. In contrast, the evidence is overwhelming that prohibiting students from using facilities that correspond to their gender identity causes them very real physical, emotional and mental harm.\u201d<\/p>\n Neighboring Washington is going in the opposite direction of Idaho in terms of transgender issues.<\/p>\n The state\u2019s anti-discrimination law, known as the Washington Law Against Discrimination, explicitly prohibits discrimination because of \u201cgender expression or identity,\u201d including actual or perceived identity.<\/p>\n The Washington State Human Rights Commission, the state agency responsible for enforcing the WLAD, issued regulations in 2015 clarifying that the WLAD protects the right of transgender individuals to use restrooms and other gender-segregated facilities consistent with their gender identity.<\/p>\n In 2021, Washington\u2019s Democratic-controlled Legislature passed a\u00a0bill<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 later signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee \u2013 that requires insurers to cover gender-affirming surgeries that are prescribed by a person\u2019s doctor and deemed medically necessary.<\/p>\n By<\/p>\n Brett Davis<\/a> | The Center Square<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Brett Davis) \u2013 A coalition of 21 Democratic attorneys general, led by Washington state\u2019s Bob Ferguson and New York\u2019s Letitia James, have filed a brief seeking to block an Idaho law that prohibits transgender students from using public school restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. Idaho has a Republican trifecta, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88912,"featured_media":46943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[3466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46945,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46909\/revisions\/46945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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