Christian nationalist lawsuit promotes “humiliating” & “reckless” accusation against a trans student

An Idaho student is seeking damages over claims her trans classmate masturbated next to her.

The mother of Daisy Davis (not her real name) says the story about her trans daughter masturbating in a stall next to a classmate in the girls’ restroom at Boise High School is false, as well as “reckless and irresponsible.” 

And it refuses to die.

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In February 2025, Davis’s classmate reported her to administrators, accusing her of pointing her feet toward her from an adjacent bathroom stall and masturbating loudly, Idaho Education News reports.

The classmate, identified in court documents as Jane Doe, waited for Davis at the bathroom sinks to confront her. Davis denied the accusation and said she was unconsciously stimming, defined as physical and/or verbal activity to release energy for people on the spectrum like her. She was just scrolling on her phone, she said.

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Jane Doe didn’t accept the explanation and reported Davis to the principal’s office. Doe heard “deep grunting noises” coming from the adjacent stall and saw “two black shoes pointed toward her” as the student masturbated, she claimed. Anti-trans crusaders in the state have been running with Doe’s story ever since.

The backdrop to what Davis’s mother calls the “humiliating” bathroom drama is Idaho’s ban on transgender students using school restrooms that align with their gender identity. Senate Bill 1100 was passed in 2023 but was put on hold when students at Boise High sued the state over the constitutionality of the law, with Davis as one of the plaintiffs.

Since Doe gave her account to school administrators, the story has been amplified across the right-wing echo chamber to support claims that trans students are a threat to classmates in restrooms, and last summer, it was shared by the Idaho attorney general while defending SB1100.

Raúl Labrador’s (R) office shared Doe’s account in federal court, pointing to the alleged incident as an example of the “dangers” posed by trans students in girls’ restrooms. Labrador was defending the law in the suit by the plaintiffs in Boise High School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance.

“When Daisy came out to me as transgender, one of my deepest worries as a parent was about how the world might treat her, and whether others might jump to negative assumptions about her simply because she is transgender,” Dana Davis wrote to the court in response to Labrador raising the false allegation. “This experience has only confirmed those fears.”

And the false story is only spreading further.

Now, Jane Doe is suing the Boise School District for monetary damages over the incident. She is represented by the Idaho Family Policy Center, a Christian nationalist advocacy and legal group that supports “biblical truths in sexuality and gender” and opposes celebrations of lifestyles that are “sinful” and “immoral.”

They’re suing despite the fact that at the time of the alleged masturbation, SB1100 was on hold and Boise High School allowed trans students to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity.

They say their client was “traumatized” by the event.

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