Idaho's governor just signed 2 of the most vile anti-transgender laws in the nation

[Behind the Aegis]

Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) signed two bills into law last night to severely restrict the rights of transgender people in the state, both of which will probably be challenged in court.

One of the bills bans transgender people from correcting the gender marker on their birth certificates – joining Tennessee and Ohio as the only three states that ban transgender people from correcting their birth certificates at all. The other bill bans transgender girls from competing in high school sports and even allows parents and students from opposing teams to “challenge” a female athlete’s gender and require her to get a genital exam.

The first bill, HB 509, is a direct retaliation against a federal court that overturned Idaho’s previous ban on transgender people correcting their birth certificates.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale ruled in 2018 that the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s ban on correcting birth certificates violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause because some people (like adoptive parents) were allowed to update birth certificates, while transgender people were not. The court found that there was no reason for the ban, which caused transgender people to suffer “irreparable injury and harm” because they could be outed as transgender through their official documents.

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[pat_k]

1. If they are relying on the distraction of coronavirus...

... to avoid challenge, I hope they are flat wrong.

These laws would be DOA if their purveyors weren't convinced that the black-robbed traitors on SCOTUS would ultimately back them.

In far too may jurisdictions and levels within the judiciary, the law has become meaningless. They could get away with this.

From criminal court up, the judicial branch has been so corrupted I have no idea how to begin to repair it.

Mass incarceration should be at the top of every list of issues. It is the most devastating consequence of the how broken our system of so-called "justice" is.

The deafening silence on this is incredibly depressing.

[onethatcares]

2. Idaho just had

a 6.5 earthquake.

Go figure

[scarletlib]

3. I just love the part where the girl's gender can be challenged and forced to have

a genital exam”. This is multi-level shades of misogynistic crap. If the birth certificate cannot be altered, why do you need to check her genitals. Who is going to do the check? Coaches on the sidelines? Force young girls and adolescents to go to a gynecologist for a checkup and certificate of authenticity?

I can’t tell you how traumatizing this will be to girls. I can see this law easily being misused by rival coaches and teams to target the best most athletic players.

How humiliating and unfair. Totally misogynistic.