Legal defense to protect women's sports in SCOTUS battle over trans athletes responds to attempt to drop case

Former NCAA athletes Lainey Armistead and Madison Kenyon talk to Fox News Digital about how they ended up in a lawsuit to protect women's sports in a case that's now going all the way to the Supreme Court.

FIRST ON FOX: The legal team representing defendants in a forthcoming Supreme Court case to protect women's sports has responded after the transgender plaintiff asked the court to drop the case.

The defense team, led by Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorney Kristen Waggoner, filed its response after former Boise State University transgender athlete Lindsay Hecox, requested the athlete's initial lawsuit to fight for trans inclusion in women's sports from 2022 be dismissed, after SCOTUS agreed to hear the case. 

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"After five years, Idaho's law protecting women's sports has finally reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, the [American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is representing Hecox] wants to drop the case because they know the strength of our argument. But the legal arguments of one male athlete do not change the facts: Girls across Idaho can still be forced to compete against boys," Labrador told Fox News Digital. 

"That's not fair, it's not safe and it strips young women of equal opportunities. We're urging the court to affirm that states have the authority to preserve and protect women's sports."

The Little v. Hecox lawsuit was initially filed by Hecox in 2020, when the trans athlete wanted to join the women's cross-country team and block the state's law preventing trans athletes from competing in women's sports.

Hecox was joined by an anonymous biological female student, Jane Doe, who was concerned about the potential