Transgender Rights

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked an Idaho bill banning transgender students from using restrooms, lockers, showers or other school facilities that align with their gender identity.

Two transgender girls and their families are suing the state of Idaho ahead of the implementation of a new law that would criminalize gender-affirming care for those under 18.

Local students are raising money to help trans minors receive gender affirming care out of state ahead of a newly passed law banning doctors in Idaho from providing puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries to trans patients under 18.

The ACLU of Idaho said it will sue the state to halt the implementation of a law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

Transgender people under the age of 18 in Idaho will no longer be able to get puberty blockers, hormone therapy or gender-confirmation surgery beginning next year.

Transgender youth in Idaho are close to being unable to obtain cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers or sex-reassignment surgery.

A bill to ban gender-affirming care for trans minors is headed to the Senate floor for amendments.

Idaho could become the latest state in the country to ban gender-affirming care for anyone under 18.

A bill banning transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity in public schools is another step closer to becoming law.

Idaho could become the latest state in the country to ban gender-affirming care for anyone under 18. Lawmakers supporting the bill paint these treatments as ineffective and harmful with high rates of regret, but research shows the opposite.