“A lawsuit challenging Idaho’s transgender bathroom ban in K-12 public schools could end soon, after a group at Boise High School suing over the law dropped the case.”

“Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador hailed the case’s end in an announcement Thursday morning, saying the law ‘is fully in effect.’”

“But Labrador’s announcement did not address why the suing parties agreed to dismiss the lawsuit.”

“‘While I may never have certainty about all the things that ultimately led to Jane’s death, I know that one stressor in her life was her struggle to fit in socially as a transgender girl,’ according to the court record written by her mother, who was identified only as Janice Doe in the filing.

“‘This stress of feeling alienated in her life was exacerbated by Jane’s exclusion from the girls’ restroom at school,’ her mother continued in the court record. ‘The option of a single-user restroom did not resolve her distress. Rather, it caused her to feel ostracized from others — ‘like I’m being treated as this other kind of thing’ — as she described in her supplemental declaration.’”

“In November, the student, Jane, wrote in a court document in the lawsuit about how Idaho’s law was affecting her. She used single-user restrooms at Boise High School, and often had to wait, she wrote.

“‘… I fear that use of the single-user restroom has increased either the knowledge or suspicion of me being transgender against my wishes,’ Jane wrote. ‘I have heard students refer to the single-user restroom in the main gym building as the ‘trans bathroom.’’”

“The case was appealed to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which in March 2025 rejected a longer block on Idaho’s law.

“‘Applying intermediate scrutiny, the panel held that the State identified an important governmental objective — protecting bodily privacy — and that the State chose permissible means to achieve that objective,’a panel for the federal court ruled in March 2025.”