EXCLUSIVE: Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that his state is prepared to sue if a possible Harris administration hampers Idaho’s efforts to prevent trans inclusion in women’s sport.

“If necessary, that’s what we will do,” Little responded when asked if his state and Attorney General Raúl R. Labrador would sue the federal government if a new Harris administration tried to block his mandate. decree implement the law on the defense of women’s sport.

Little added that he expects the federal government to clamp down on his state’s ability to enforce this law if Vice President Kamala Harris wins. However, he expects other states to follow suit in combating this reluctance, if that happens.

“We’ll probably do it in conjunction with some of our other governors, attorneys general and states, but we’ll do it in Idaho, there’s no denying it,” Little said. “Some of these things have to have critical mass to be successful, but I know there are a lot of like-minded states that are going to do the same thing we did here in Idaho.”

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Idaho Governor Brad Little issued an executive order targeting illegal voting, which is rare in the state. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Harris has remained mum on her stance regarding transgender in women’s sports throughout her presidential campaign. However, she has championed several federal efforts to allow transgender inclusion in women’s sports nationwide.

This includes the Biden-Harris administration’s rewrite of Title IX, which took effect earlier in April, which several experts and witnesses previously told Fox News Digital would lead to an increase in the number of trans athletes competing and sharing locker rooms with girls and women.

Harris has been repeatedly criticized for her role as California attorney general in ensuring that prisoners and illegal immigrants have access to taxpayer-funded transition surgery.

The vast majority of Harris’ Democratic allies in Congress supported the equality lawAlso. The proposed bill would require schools to include biologically male athletes who identify as transgender women on girls’ and women’s sports teams.

In March 2023, Democrats advocated for a transgender bill of rights, proposing a resolution “recognizing that it is the duty of the federal government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights.” The resolution specifically called for federal law to ensure that biological males can “participate in sports on teams and in programs that best align with their gender identity; (and) use school facilities that best match their gender identity.”

At a recent event in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance called out President Biden and Harris for the Title IX changes that resulted in the denial of federal funding for lunch programs fees in schools that prevent transgender inclusion in women’s sports.

Vance appeared to be referring to May 2022 Memorandum from the Ministry of Agriculture direct state agencies and Food and Nutrition Act program operators to “promptly review their discrimination complaint procedures and make any necessary changes to ensure that complaints alleging discrimination on the basis of “Gender identity and sexual orientation are treated and evaluated as complaints of discrimination based on sex.”

However, Little said he was not yet aware of this issue affecting public schools in his state. He hopes to see a victory next week for former President Donald Trump that will ensure this never affects his schools.

“I’m sure it will be litigated if we have a change in administration next week, and it will be a moot point,” Little said.

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Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally October 28, 2024 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump advocated for a complete ban on trans inclusion in girls’ and women’s sports in the weeks leading up to the election.

Little said he would support a national ban on all trans inclusion in women’s sports in the event of a Trump presidency.

Idaho is one of 23 states that have laws in place to restrict or prevent transgender inclusion in women’s sports. However, even some of the states with these laws have had incidents where the inclusion of trans people in a women’s sport was made possible by a federal judge’s ruling.

Justices Landya McCafferty of New Hampshire and M. Hannah Lauck of Virginia, both appointed during the Obama administration, each adopted rulings this year allowing biological males to play on high school girls’ soccer and tennis teams. McCafferty passed a rule allowing two trans athletes to compete on girls’ soccer teams at New Hampshire high schools, while Lauck ruled that an 11-year-old trans tennis player was allowed to compete against girls of the same age in Virginia.

Little admits he worries about similar rulings affecting schools in his state, particularly from judges in California. Idaho falls under the jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, shared with California, Oregon, and Washington.

“It always worries you,” Little said. “We’re in the Ninth Circuit, Idaho is, where there are a lot of judges outside of California, but it’s a problem we’re seeing on all kinds of fronts.”

Court intervention for a situation involving a trans athlete playing women’s sports in his state is possible later in November, when the Boise State University women’s volleyball team is scheduled to host San Jose State. Boise State lost a game to San Jose State that was scheduled to take place in California earlier this year. The forfeit came amid an ongoing national controversy surrounding a transgender player on the team and another player engaged in a lawsuit against the NCAA alleging she was never told the player’s birth sex. trans athlete, even though she shared the team locker room and room with this player.

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Little previously praised Boise State for the decision. However, both teams are scheduled to play again on Boise State’s Idaho campus on Nov. 21, and Boise State has not yet announced whether or not that game will be played.

With the Women’s Sports Defense Act having been signed into law in Idaho, and if the trans athlete is still on San Jose State’s roster at the time this game takes place, playing this game would be a violation of the state law.

Little said a judge and prosecutor would likely determine the repercussions of this game if it were played, but he expects Boise State to forfeit in advance if the trans athlete is still on the team .

“That’s something a prosecutor and a judge will have to determine. I have a pretty good level of confidence that it won’t happen against Boise State women’s athletes, it just won’t happen here,” Little said.

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