Trans athlete's attorneys respond after judge strikes down attempt to end SCOTUS battle over women's sports

The attorneys for Lindsay Hecox the transgender athlete at the center of an impending Supreme Court battle over the protection of women's sports have responded after a federal judge ruled against Hecox's attempt to have the scenario dropped Hecox initially filed the lawsuit in to block an Idaho state law HB which prohibits males from competing in women's sports in order to compete for the Boise State women's cross-country gang The Supreme Court agreed to hear the occurrence in July alongside a similar situation in West Virginia involving a trans athlete West Virginia v B P J Hecox then tried to have the scenario against Idaho and Gov Brad Little dropped in September CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COMHecox's attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union ACLU Cooley LLP and Legal Voice provided a announcement to Fox News Digital after U S District Judge David Nye rejected the trans athlete's motion to dismiss the matter on Tuesday Lindsay ended her participation in any women s athletic programs covered by HB to prioritize finishing her degree at Boise State and her personal safety and wellness Lindsay withdrew her challenge to Idaho s HB and that remains unchanged the declaration read In West Virginia v B P J the U S Supreme Court will address a challenge to a nearly identical law We will continue to advocate for the rights of all women and girls including transgender women and girls When Hecox initially filed the lawsuit in the trans athlete was joined by an anonymous biological female scholar Jane Doe who was concerned about the feasible of being subjected to the sex dispute verification process The challenge was thriving as a federal judge blocked Idaho's state law INSIDE GAVIN NEWSOM'S TRANSGENDER VOLLEYBALL SITUATION A th U S Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld an injunction blocking the state law in before the Supreme Court agreed to hear the scenario back in July Hecox then required SCOTUS last month to drop the challenge claiming the athlete has therefore decided to permanently withdraw and refrain from playing any women s sports at BSU or in Idaho Former Idaho State University cross-country and track runner Madison Kenyon voluntarily joined the defendant list in Little v Hecox alongside Little after having to compete against a trans athlete her freshman year in My coach sat us down in the room and described us that we would be competing against a male athlete at a specific meet and just let us know And I remember sitting there and kind of like looking around the room being like 'Well what do my teammates think about this What do we do Kenyon previously notified Fox News Digital So for us it was not a matter of whether I'm going to compete or not I'm going to put everything out there that I have and see what happens And sure enough this male athlete beat me beat all my teammates and that continued to happen the entire season So that's when I explained 'This isn t fair ' Hecox's efforts to have the incident dropped aren't comprehensively over as SCOTUS must still rule on whether the matter is moot But Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador who is leading the defense against Hecox believes Nye's ruling is a good sign for their efforts to take the event to the highest court in the nation and achieve a landmark ruling Labrador previously noted he hopes for the Supreme Court to cast a decision with a wider impact than just letting one state carry out its own specific law on the issue He wants a new national precedent I believe that that's what they're gonna do Labrador previously explained Fox News Digital in an particular interview I think they're going to have a big ruling on whether men can participate in women's sports and more importantly how to determine whether transgender individuals are protected by the federal constitution and state and federal laws Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter