By Jane Migliara Brigham

Idaho has enacted a series of laws aimed to have trans people reported to the authorities in their lives.

This afternoon, Idaho Governor Brad Little signed HB 822 into law. As detailed in our previous coverage, this bill is among the most extreme pieces of anti-trans legislation ever enacted in the United States. It creates a requirement to surveil kids for signs of a trans identity, and forces certain entities to report any signs to the child’s parents.

This comes a week after Idaho used Trans Day of Visibility to sign into law the most restrictive anti-trans bathroom law in the country, making it a felony offence to use any bathroom not associated with a person’s sex at birth. This will greatly reduce the ability of trans people to exist in public. 

These laws create widespread restrictions on both trans children and trans adults. For adults, the new bathroom restrictions will force trans people to use the wrong bathrooms on threat of a felony conviction. For kids, the new guidance for healthcare, school, and other areas responsible for overseeing them will soon force them to report signs of a trans identity to their parents.

Both of these laws are among the most restrictive anti-trans laws in the country. No other state has felony restrictions on the use of public bathrooms in this manner. No other state requires that suspected trans kids be reported to their parents. Idaho is wholly unique in this manner.

For more info on the restrictions on kids, you can read our coverage below:

Idaho passes bill to surveil trans kids, aiming to “close the social transition loophole”
Simply put, the bill’s restrictions will be made into a normal part of taking care of kids in Idaho. It creates a dragnet to watch and enforce gender-conformity on all children in Idaho.
The NeedleJane Migliara Brigham

For more info on the bathroom restrictions, we recommend the coverage from Transitics:

‘Trans People Are a Myth’: Idaho Republicans Pass Extreme Bathroom Ban Carrying 5-Year Prison Sentence
House Bill 752 criminalizes trans bathroom use in all private businesses with severe penalties. While passing it, Republicans argued trans people won’t be harmed because they don’t exist.
TransiticsAleksandra Vaca

To any trans kids in Idaho with no opportunity to escape: you can live to see a day when the people making your life worse will be hated as much as they hate you. You just have to outlive them.

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💉Take Your Shot 💉

If you want to help trans people in Idaho, we recommend you get involved with organizations such as Operation Lifeboat. They are there to get out the people who want and need to get out of these unsafe states.

The fastest way to get involved is through their Discord server, which can be joined HERE.
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