A transgender college student challenging Idaho’s 2020 ban on trans athletes notified the Supreme Court this week that she would drop her case, citing personal and academic challenges and intensifying “negative public scrutiny” tied to her involvement in it.

Attorneys for Lindsay Hecox told the high court on Tuesday that the Boise State University senior was withdrawing her case and requested that the justices also vacate a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in her favor.

The justices, who agreed in July to hear appeals from Republican leaders in Idaho and West Virginia defending their state bans on transgender athletes, have not yet said whether they will grant Hecox’s request. The Supreme........

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