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

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.

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 case dropped. 

Hecox initially filed the lawsuit in 2020 to block an Idaho state law, HB 500, which prohibits males from competing in women's sports, in order to compete for the Boise State women's cross-country team. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case in July, alongside a similar case in West Virginia involving a trans athlete, West Virginia v. B.P.J. 

Hecox then tried to have the case against Idaho and Gov. Brad Little dropped in September. 

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Hecox's attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Cooley, LLP, and Legal Voice, provided a statement to Fox News Digital after U.S. District Judge David Nye rejected the trans athlete's motion to dismiss the case on Tuesday. 

"Lindsay ended her participation in any women’s athletic programs covered by HB 500 to prioritize finishing her degree at Boise State and her personal safety and wellness. Lindsay withdrew her challenge to Idaho’s HB 500 and that remains unchanged," the statement 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 2020, the trans athlete was joined by an