The decision may spell bad news for trans children and their doctors.
Staying safe from severe weather was apparently not as important as going after LGBTQ+ youth.
The state's governor has signed numerous anti-trans laws.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04/idaho-passes-law-requiring-teachers-to-misgender-trans-students/
One of the neo-Nazis stayed with the gay couple as a teenager.
While Utah's GOP governor made inflammatory comments about trans kids.
The bill would ban "sexual conduct" - including homosexuality - from the kids' sections of Idaho's libraries.
Queer people in Iowa, Idaho, and Ohio got extra presents this year.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/lgbtq-people-got-good-news-over-the-holidays/
“Are they gonna tell you that we need to get rid of the sodomites? No.”
The law offers a bounty on trans bathroom users and paints them as would-be rapists.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/10/court-blocks-idahos-deeply-transphobic-student-bathroom-bill/
Karen Lauritzen said it has been the hardest year in her 20 years of teaching.
The law offers children a $5,000 bounty for reporting trans kids who use a restroom that aligns with their gender identity.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/08/judge-blocks-school-bathroom-bill-just-as-classes-start/
They were just five of 31 Patriot Front members who squeezed into a U-Haul truck with riot gear, a smoke grenade, and an attack plan.
The lawsuit calls the legislation "an unprecedented intrusion into families' fundamental autonomy."
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/aclu-sues-idaho-for-unprecedented-gender-affirming-care-ban/
This is one of the most punitive anti-trans bills in the country.
If a drag queen (or trans person) lip syncs to a song while riding a float, they would be in violation of the proposed laws.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/02/drag-bans-could-result-in-arrests-at-pride-parades/
LGBTQ equality advocates fear the bill could ban transgender people from wearing clothes associated with their gender identity in public.
The event was scheduled to last for barely 30 minutes, but it received lots of negative attention.
Library officials repeatedly said that they didn't carry any of the books. Then armed protesters began showing up at libraries.
Opponents of the anti-trans bill predicted that it would be costly for the state.
“Flag stays up for another month, deal with it...Plus, Freddie Mercury rules.”
"Don’t believe the media, mom," Jared Michael Boyce allegedly told his mother. "We were just there because they’re grooming kids."
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/mom-kicks-white-nationalist-son-got-arrested-going-riot-pride/
They were arrested when they showed up waving guns around children.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/dozens-far-right-extremists-squeezed-u-haul-go-start-riot-pride/
It's still rough out there, but there are signs of hope.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/03/week-trans-rights-alabama-bill-moves-forward-idaho-bill-killed/
Runners up include Idaho, Alaska, and Iowa.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/03/week-trans-rights-florida-texas-fight-title-transphobic-state/
The crime? Providing the kids with the appropriate medical care.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/03/idaho-passes-bill-send-loving-parents-trans-kids-prison-life/