Idaho’s transgender athlete ban has been on hold pending a federal court case for two years. Now we know how lucky Idaho’s female athletes have been.
Our neighbor to the south, which briefly implemented a ban modeled on Idaho’s before it, too, was blocked by a federal court last week, has shown us a cautionary tale about how abusive this policy will be toward girls if it’s ever implemented in Idaho.
Youth sports have a tendency to bring out the worst in some parents. And as the Salt Lake Tribune detailed shortly before the injunction went into effect, parents in Utah had already begun using the state’s trans athlete ban to try to give their kids an edge.
