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Idaho's leading LGBTQ+ groups tell The Advocate that the state GOP's effort to overturn marriage equality does not "address any of the many issues facing Idahoans today."
The new laws take direct aim at gender-affirming care for minors and the trans community.
The complaint, filed on behalf of two student athletes, also calls out the law's intrusive "sex verification" requirements in disputed cases.
Men were forced to register as sex offenders over convictions for having consensual sex.
Idaho's law making it a felony to provide such care to minors is unconstitutional, according to the suit.
They're seeking an injunction preventing the law — targeting children and youth — from going into effect, saying it will cause irreparable harm.
The narrow ruling applies only to the denial of gender-affirming care behind bars and also grants class action status to transgender inmates.
A federal appeals court refused to place a hold on an inunction against the ban, which threatens health care workers with 10 years in prison.
What they didn't know before moving to Idaho could fill a house, and in many ways it does. The kitchen table holds stacks of legal papers. Medication bottles litter a nearby countertop. The two-story home Robert Ryan, 42, shares with his partner, Ralph Martinelli, 53, overlooks the quaint suburb of Eagle, west of Boise, a rural landscape of ruddy hills that doesn't seem quite as welcoming as it once did. A 2,400-mile move west once seemed like a chance at a fresh start; instead it has delivered some hard lessons, especially about moving from a state that recognizes same-sex unions to one of the 21 states that don't.
The 48,000 paper hearts represented the 48,000 LGBTQ+ people living in Idaho.
“This is an important victory for common sense, equality, and the rights of transgender youth under the law,” the ACLU's Chase Strangio said.
The Department of Justice, headed by William Barr, supports a state law barring trans females from girls' and women's school sports teams.
Federal appeals courts have ruled against the laws, so the states are petitioning SCOTUS.
Twenty-six attorneys general have filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to do so.
The law would have placed medical professionals who provide such care for transgender people under the age of 18 at risk of fines up to $5,000 and a felony conviction, resulting in up to 10 years in prison.
The state can enforce it against all state residents except those who sued to challenge it, the high court ruled Monday.
The lesbian tennis champ signed on to a letter to the NCAA endorsing the ban.
Why is discrimination on anyone's agenda right now?
The judge found the regulation "fatally" flawed.
The 2015 Trans100 list includes activists, journalists, academics, and sex workers.
