Hecox v. Little

Affirming the rights of Idaho's trans and intersex community to participate in school sports.

Latest Update: On June 30, 2025, the Supreme Court granted Idaho’s request to review the lower courts' decision.

About the Lawsuit:

Lindsay is a college student at Boise State University. She wants to run on the track team so she can form friendships with other girls. A new law in Idaho would ban her from doing so because she is transgender.

Among the dozens of anti-trans laws introduced in 2020 was Idaho’s HB 500, which bans women and girls who are transgender and many women and girls who are intersex from participating in sports. Governor Brad Little signed the law, making Idaho the first state to impose an outright ban on participation of transgender student athletes.

Idaho already had one of the most restrictive policies in the country regulating participation of transgender athletes in high school athletics. This restrictive policy, which was replaced by HB 500’s outright ban on participation, required girls who are transgender to complete one year of hormone therapy as part of gender transition before competing in girls’ sports. Under the Idaho law, girls and women who are transgender were categorically barred from participation under any circumstances, and at all levels of competition.

Lindsay is represented by the ACLU and the ACLU of Idaho, Legal Voice, and Cooley LLP.

As a result of an injunction issued by the lower courts at the beginning of the case, our client Lindsay has been able to try out for club sports at her college, and played on the club soccer team.