I wish these headlines would specify whether these bills were passed into law or passed into the next chamber. It happens so often where I get halfway or more through an article just to realize I’d be operating under a false assumption about how imminent a threat this is.
The fact that a bill was drafted, approved by committee and sent to the floor for a vote means it’s an imminent threat.
Instead of discussing healthcare or housing or any of the other myriad issues that plague our nation, the legislature is focused on this bullshit. It tells you everything you need to know about our governing bodies. We are not a serious nation, but we are a dangerous one.
Sorry for that. For anyone else:
It now heads to the Idaho Senate, where Republicans hold 29 of 35 seats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Little Judging by the Governor’s Wikipedia page he’ll be itching to pass this, too. I don’t really know what to say besides this is some evil shit. Been stressing me out that this is likely going to keep spreading to other states, too.
In April 2023, Little signed House Bill 71 into law, banning anyone under the age of 18 from receiving puberty blockers, hormone therapy, or gender-affirming surgery beginning in 2024. Doctors who violate the law face up to ten years in prison. It offers no exemptions for minors currently taking puberty blockers or undergoing hormone therapy.
Yea its over for Idahoans and then the rest of us. The spread stresses me out a lot too. With the recent 4th circuit case we can lose adult care and looks like private bathroom bans too. Fucked.
That 4th circuit case decision is wild. Not unexpected with the state of America I guess but ugh. Feels like the best case scenario would be it’s up to the states so there are some safe spaces, but that leaves so many people stuck in places trying to erase them.
Not your fault. You were just posting the existing headline. It’s not like it’s not going to pass anyway
Bro, like, no matter which gender bathroom they go into? What the actual fuck. Not that it would be better if trans folks could only use the bathroom they are forced to by the state, but this is even more vindictive
It also disproves that they’re only worried about “men in women’s bathrooms”
They just want to exterminate a whole group of people because it makes them feel icky and because religious leaders/chud commentators told them what to think.
Meanwhile trans teenage suicide at an all time high. Yeah, they really care about kids. This has nothing to do with manufacturing a controversy to distract from the inflation, war, Epstein, class war, theft of public lands, total corruption…
[Screaming incessantly]
Why democracy is a fucking horrible idea. Example 50 billion.
The US has never been a democracy
*bourgeois democracy
Wow, someone correct me if I’m wrong but this one seems worse than the Kansas law that just passed. Hope it doesn’t pass but I’m not very familiar with Idaho politics. If we have any Idahoan comrades here I hope they’re able to stay safe.
the politics of Idaho is that they have actual Ku Klux Klans moving around in the daylight.
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