Appeals Court Upholds Idaho Law Protecting Single-Sex Spaces

BOISE, ID – Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld Idaho’s 2023 law that protects the privacy and safety of the state’s K-12 students by requiring single-sex facilities in public schools for males and females. In Roe v. Critchfield, a three-judge panel rejected a request for a preliminary injunction from the law’s challengers holding that protecting bodily privacy from exposure to the opposite sex was an “important” state interest. According to Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador, the decision revokes a previous block on the law allowing the state to enforce its protections for Idaho students while litigation continues.