This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

A man who insists he is a woman and brought a fight over a state law requiring women who participate in women's sports to be, well, women, all the way to the Supreme Court abruptly has walked away from his case, calling on the justices to drop his fight, and even overrule a lower court decision in his favor.

A statement from the ADF, which has fought many of the nation's battles over the transgender ideology and agenda, said, "Let's be clear: the ACLU picked this fight. In red states throughout America, they've gone on offense, filing lawsuits against commonsense laws meant to protect women's sports. In their five-year litigation against Idaho's law, the ACLU has repeatedly argued that this issue is 'a live controversy' and is 'not moot.' They won at the 9th Circuit, forcing Idahoans to allow men in women's sports against their will. And now that the Supreme Court has taken up the case, they suddenly want to take their ball and go home? That's not right—and SCOTUS has looked unfavorably on this tactic in the past. A 2012 ruling decried such 'maneuvers designed to insulate a decision from review by this Court.'"

A report at Not the Bee explained the case was brought by Lindsay Hecox, a 24-year-old man at Boise State University, who demanded to be allowed in women's sports events despite a state law requirement that women's sports participants be women.

"In this case, Hecox, with representation from the ACLU, was challenging Idaho's ban on men participating in women's sporting leagues. Two lower courts had ruled in his favor, with the state subsequently appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed earlier this year to hear the case.

The ACLU's decision to back out — and to request that the court knock back the earlier favorable rulings — unfortunately doesn't mean that we're out of the woods yet on this. As CNN notes, SCOTUS already 'granted a second case, involving a transgender student from West Virginia, that raises the same issue,'" the report said.

The report noted, "Hecox's unwillingness to challenge the matter at court suggests a number of encouraging things, chief among them that he knows he is very likely to lose — which is another way of saying that the tide is turning on transgender madness."

The newest demand from Hecox insists he is under intense "negative public scrutiny" over the litigation and now wants to pursue 'academic and personal goals."

His lawyers said, in a statement to the court, "Ms. (sic) Hecox has also come under negative public scrutiny from certain quarters because of this litigation, and she (sic) believes that such continued – and likely intensified – attention in the coming school year will distract her (sic) from her (sic) schoolwork and prevent her (sic) from meeting her (sic) academic and personal goals. While playing women's sports is important to Ms. (sic) Hecox, her (sic) top priority is graduating from college and living a healthy and safe life."

Republican Gov. Brad Little signed the Idaho law in 2020, the first of its kind in the nation. Hecox, then a freshman at Boise State, sued days later, saying that he intended to try out for the women's track and cross-country teams and alleging that the law violated the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.