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.
In the short term, this is not as dangerous as an outright ban on estrogen. If implemented and then combined with other methods of suppressing trans people, it might be far more destructive in the long term.
The policy position which was released was the result of pressure from the Trump Administration, and does not reflect the evidence available or the positions of the ASPS membership at large.
It is not impossible for the FBI to do what has been claimed. It is still irresponsible to spread panic among marginalized people through rumors without evidence.
It’s not about protecting gay people, or trans people– especially when the author can’t say “trans people” most of the time. It’s about controlling and maintaining cissexual bodies.
The Equalities and Human Rights Commission has no internal or policy definitions for “biological male” or “biological female".
The wave of transphobia that's been afflicting the US and the world isn't a coincidence. It is an export from the US- a case of the USA making the world a less free place to live.
SEGM has spent almost $1.5 million dollars and received nearly $2 million to push anti-trans hate into "scientific" legitimacy and "evidenced based" objectivity.
