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The Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador has worked on a case that could determine the future of female sports in America.
Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Little case against Hecox, which began in 2020 when Idaho became a precursor for states with laws that prohibit trans athletes in female and girls sports. A Trans athlete in Boisse State, Lindsay Hecox, continued the state to compete in the university women’s team.
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The Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador speaks before the Supreme Court on April 24, 2024 in Washington, DC (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)
The American district court of the Idaho district granted a preliminary injunction, preventing the law from being applied because it found that the complainants were likely to prove the unconstitutional law. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has confirmed the injunction, but now the Supreme Court will have the opportunity to intervene.
However, the Labrador hopes that the Supreme Court makes a decision with a broader impact than leaving a state to conclude its own specific law on the issue. He wants a new national precedent. “I think that’s what they are going to do,” Labrador told PK Press Club Digital in an exclusive interview.
“I think they will have a big decision on the question of whether men can participate in female sports, and more importantly, how to determine whether transgender people are protected by federal constitutions and federal and federal laws.”
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“The most important [argument] is that the 14th amendment does not prevent a state from protecting their daughters when it comes to participating in sports and there is no special classification that allows boys to participate in girls sports, “he said.
Labrador’s first exposure to the Little against Hecox affair was when it was tabled in 2020, three years before her being the Idaho Attorney General. He worked as a legal advisor for the State in the management of the case at the time, believing that it was “common sense”.
However, the Labrador also said that it had witnessed the way the question had not been fully understood by the dominant society. He blamed the “scientific community”.
“For a while, society was not sure how to face it,” said Labrador.
“In one way or another, the scientific community began to find these scientific evidence that there was no difference between a boy who was passing towards a girl and a girl who was born a biological girl. And we just knew that it was ridiculous, and that it was, he stole from common sense, and I now think that science and I think that the debate turned to a point where people can speak freely.”
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Two years before the Labrador took over as an act of the State, two students joined the accused’s list.
The former female athlete of the State University of Idaho, Madison Kenyon and Mary Kate Marshall, joined the trial in 2021 as defendants arranged after having had to compete with a man during their university career.
“My trainer sat in the room and told us that we will participate in a male athlete during a specific meeting and that we let ourselves be known. And I remember being seated there and a bit like, looking in the room,” well, what does my teammates think? What are we doing? “,” Kenyon told PK Press Club Digital.
“So, for us, it was not a question whether I will participate or not. I will put everything there and see what is going on. And of course, this male athlete beat me, beat all my teammates and that continued to perform all season. So, that’s when I said:” It is not fair. “” ”
Kenyon added that she thought the situation was “swept under the carpet” when it happened for the first time.
“I think a lot of people saw that it was obviously not fair and it will not last. And it was going to be a problem, and they don’t act on it.”
Kenyon said that she was then inspired to join the trial from a mission in her discourse class in the state of Idaho, where she wrote a discourse on legislation she wanted to support.
For the Labrador, the support of young women in Idaho was “supremely important” and costly for women because of the common treatment of people who get up and talk about the question by the opposing side.
“Society was not nice to them, the local media were not nice to them, they obtained a lot of peers forced to engrave on this question, they were called all kinds of names,” sectarian “and other things,” said Labrador.
The Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador speaks before the Supreme Court on April 24, 2024 in Washington, DC (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)
The Labrador said that he had seen the same treatment as the other families of his state were affected when a Trans athlete competed against his daughters in competition in high school.
“The media are trying to shame these families in silence and several times, these families come out and speak, but several times, they are just afraid of expressing their opinions because of what the media do them.” The Labrador said.
Now, after years of widespread societal evolution on the question and political momentum of President Donald Trump and the unanimous position of the GOP on the issue, a new federal precedent could come into force next year.
