Dear Friends,

This has been an extraordinary week for women and girls across the country. Surrounded by female athletes of all ages, President Trump signed an executive order safeguarding their opportunities and safety by preventing biological males from competing in women’s sports. This decisive action came just days after the Trump Administration’s Department of Education rescinded Biden’s Title IX rewrite—an overreach that forced schools to allow men into girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms and mandated the use of preferred pronouns under the guise of gender identity discrimination. With these rules now overturned, sanity, common sense, and biological reality have been restored in our schools.

As Idaho’s Attorney General, I’ve been on the front lines of this fight, defending Idaho’s laws in federal court in Roe v. Critchfield and Hecox v. Little. I have also joined lawsuits alongside other attorneys general challenging Biden’s unlawful Title IX revisions. A U.S. District Court in Louisiana issued an injunction protecting Idaho and a small group of plaintiffs, while a District Court in Kentucky went even further, issuing a nationwide injunction against Biden’s Title IX rewrite, deeming it “unlawful.” Currently, Roe v. Critchfield, which addresses whether biological males can access girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms, is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Meanwhile, Hecox v. Little, which upholds Idaho’s ban on biological males competing in women’s sports, is awaiting a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court on whether it will be taken up for review. President Trump’s actions this week could have a meaningful impact on these cases, reinforcing the constitutional and legal foundation we have been defending.

Perhaps most rewarding is knowing that Idaho has led the way on these issues long before President Trump’s executive order. In 2020, Idaho became the first state in the nation to pass a law barring men from competing in women’s sports—thanks to the leadership of State Representative Barbara Ehardt, a former high school and NCAA women’s basketball coach. Dozens of states followed suit, modeling their laws after Idaho’s HB500. Rep. Ehardt has been a tireless advocate for female athletes, fighting for fairness, safety, and equal opportunities. Idaho owes her a debt of gratitude for her unwavering dedication. Today, what started here in Idaho has become the law of the land.

That victory did not come without fierce opposition. Major businesses and their lobbyists in Idaho fought against it. Five former attorneys general urged a veto. My predecessor in the Attorney General’s office at the time wrote a legal opinion which gave the bill’s opponents their talking points. Democratic leadership called the legislation “disgusting and disappointing.” Editorial boards across the state attacked it. But as the saying goes, if doing the right thing were easy, more people would do it.

Opponents argued that we should have surrendered women’s sports to political correctness, allowing fairness and safety to be sacrificed. But standing up for what is right often invites criticism from those who lack the moral clarity and courage to do so themselves. While the battle over women’s sports and girls’ privacy in school bathrooms may be won for now, there will always be new fights on the horizon. It is this very reason I worked so hard to become Idaho’s Attorney General—so I could uphold the values of the people of Idaho and defend what is right.

I am honored to serve you and will continue to stand firm in this fight.

Best regards,

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