BOISE, Idaho — Two years ago, Idaho Republicans flouted warnings that barring transgender people from changing the gender on their birth certificates is unconstitutional. Now, Idaho taxpayers owe more than $320,000 to attorneys who successfully challenged the 2020 law.
The Idaho Board of Examiners on Tuesday approved the payment amount for Lambda Legal, the civil rights group that represented two transgender women who challenged the law. A court awarded attorneys’ fees to the group in June — it’s not yet clear when the state will pay up.
Nora Huppert, a Lambda Legal attorney, told the Idaho Statesman that Idaho officials “willfully ignored warnings that the policy would almost certainly result in an award of attorneys’ fees.”
