Overview
- Six transgender Idaho residents filed a federal class-action in the U.S. District Court in Boise seeking a preliminary injunction before House Bill 752 takes effect on July 1.
- HB 752 makes it a crime to knowingly enter a restroom, locker room, or changing area that does not match one’s sex assigned at birth, with up to one year in jail for a first offense and up to five years for a second within five years.
- The law reaches beyond government buildings to places of public accommodation such as restaurants and stores, a breadth civil-rights groups describe as the strictest in the country.
- The plaintiffs say the statute violates equal protection, due process, and privacy, and they argue it is unworkably vague because terms like “biological sex,” “dire need,” and “reasonably available” are undefined.
- Attorney General Raúl Labrador, named with county prosecutors, said the state will defend the law, even as the Idaho Fraternal Order of Police warned enforcement could require invasive checks and plaintiffs describe real-world harms such as avoiding public life or relocating.