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Health Care & Hospital Law,
Government

Nov. 23, 2022

Argument over Idaho transgender law focuses on mootness

Lawyers for Idaho and two women athletes who support the law argued that Boise State University student Lindsay Hecox’s case is moot because she dropped out of college in 2020 even though she has since returned.

Attorneys for a transgender student and for the first state to ban transgender girls and women from participating in women’s sports debated the law Tuesday before a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel but avoided the case’s merits.

Instead, lawyers for Idaho and two women athletes who support the law argued that Boise State University student Lindsay Hecox’s case is moot because she dropped out of college in 2020 even though she has sin...

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