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

Gov. Brad Little (R) at the White House in 2018
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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.

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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.

But Idaho Rep. Julianne Young (R) proposed a ban earlier this year, arguing that…

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