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Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan rejected a transgender litigant’s request to be referred to with her chosen pronouns.

The Idaho Senate today approved a bill already passed by the state House of Representatives that would ban transgender people from changing the sex listed on their birth certificates despite a federal court ruling two years ago declaring such a ban unconstitutional. Lambda Legal, which brought the lawsuit that resulted in that ruling, urged Idaho Gov. Brad Little to veto the bill when it lands on his desk.

The law singled out LGBTQ students for negative treatment and did not impose any comparable restriction on health education about heterosexual people.