Headline Roundup • April 1st, 2020
New Trans Rights Laws in Idaho Highlight Cultural, Media Divide
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Idaho is facing a pair of lawsuits after its governor signed two of the nation’s harshest anti-transgender bills into law.
On Monday, Republican Gov. Brad Little approved two bills that had been met with widespread opposition. House Bill 500 bans transgender girls from playing on school sports teams in alignment with their gender identity, while House Bill 509 blocks trans people from correcting their birth certificates to match the person they know themselves to be. Forty local and national businesses, including Hewlett-Packard and Verizon, signed onto an open letter opposing...
Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed into law two anti-transgender bills.
One bill would ban transgender girls and women from participating in sports that align with their gender identity. The other bill would make it illegal for transgender people to change gender markers on their Idaho birth certificates.
Little signed the bills Monday afternoon. He didn’t issue signing statements on either bill.
(CNSNews.com) -- Idaho's Gov. Brad Little (R) signed into law on Monday legislation that prohibits biological males from competing in female sports, thus barring "transgender women" from real women's sports.
The governor also signed into law another bill that requires birth certificates to record the biological sex of the person at birth, based upon their reproductive anatomy and chromosomes. Birth certificates cannot be changed based on gender theory or transgender identity.
