Judge limits enforcement of Idaho's transgender bathroom access law

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Source: USA Today/Reuters

June 17, 2026, 12:57 a.m. ET


A federal judge on June 16 barred Idaho from fully enforcing a new state law making it a crime, punishable by up to five years in prison, for transgender people to use public restrooms whose designations differ from their sex assigned at birth.

The Idaho statute, the most restrictive among various laws enacted in about 20 U.S. states limiting access of transgender people to bathrooms conforming with their gender identity, was due to go into effect on July 1.

But U.S. District Judge Amanda Brailsford, sitting in Boise, Idaho's capital, granted a preliminary injunction curtailing the measure's enforcement while a class-action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the statute proceeds.

Brailsford's order allows transgender individuals to continue using single-stall restrooms matching their gender identity, or to use a multi-stall restroom when a single-stall facility is not available on the same floor of a building. Otherwise, the state is free to enforce the law as it applies to multi-user bathrooms, as well as to portions of the law covering public locker rooms and shower facilities, which were not subject to the court challenge.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/17/idaho-transgender-bathroom-ban-injunction/90584737007/

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Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.idd.59675/gov.uscourts.idd.59675.58.0.pdf

REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143658957

[AllaN01Bear]

1. ding. this !!!!!!

[Bayard]

3. So, the bathroom police could demand to see your birth certificate?

Good on this judge.

One thing I don't understand--if a transgender person goes into a bathroom designated as the sex they identify with, the last thing they are interested in is looking at people of the same sex, right?

[GenThePerservering]

5. The goppers are a depraved, gutter-minded lot

who are projecting

[GenThePerservering]

4. GOP party of small government

is even following people into the bathroom.

[Skittles]

6. JFC

Don't these fucking conservative ASSHOLES have anything better to do? Their preoccupation with bathrooms is very disturbing, UGH.

[groundloop]

7. It's just red meat they throw to their base to keep them stirred up.

They can better control their low IQ voters by constantly giving them someone to hate.

[Skittles]

8. right?

the same fucking morons who complain about BIG GUBMNIT