BOISE, Idaho – Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador touted a lawsuit joined by his office seeking to bar transgender students from receiving federal anti-discrimination protections Friday.
A new US Department of Education Title IX regulation banning schools from discriminating against students on the basis of their sexual or gender identity would have gone into effect in Idaho on Aug. 1, but was blocked from implementation in several Republican-led states with a federal court injunction.
Labrador touted the halted Title IX protections on Friday, and used dehumanizing language to describe transgender people, labeling them a threat to children.
“Unfortunately, these injunctions only apply to the states that pushed back. Students in half the country are not protected from this dangerous social engineering,” Labrador said.
Labrador is also currently involved in lawsuits with any public funding, a .
In April, the US Supreme Court sided with the Idaho Attorney General in allowing a , which Labrador
The American Civil Liberties Union has consistently condemned Labrador’s legal actions, but has struggled to find a sympathetic audience with a conservative supermajority at the nation’s highest court this session.
The Idaho State Legislature has closely aligned with Labrador’s anti-transgender push with laws and a from certain library sections.
