Shane Vannatta

A Missoula judge has ordered the state to pay about $95,000 in attorneys’ fees in a case over a state law defining male and female.

A Missoula judge blocked a new law restricting which public accommodations transgender, nonbinary and intersex Montanans can access. It requires that people use gender-specific public accommodations, like bathrooms or sleeping quarters, according to the reproductive anatomy they were born with.