Students in the Boise School District have filed a federal lawsuit against Idaho school officials to keep them from enforcing a new law meant to prevent transgender students from using school restrooms that correspond with their gender identity.
According to the law, “no person shall enter a multi-occupancy restroom or changing facility that is designated for one sex unless such a person is a member of that sex.”
The Idaho Capital Sun reports the law also allows students to sue their school for $5,000 if they encounter a student using a restroom that does not align with their sex assigned at birth.
The plaintiffs are suing under the claim that the law violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 by singling out transgender youth for discriminatory treatment.
