Idaho is the latest state to ban or restrict transition-related care for minors, with the governor signing a measure that prohibits transgender people under 18 from accessing puberty blockers, hormones or undergoing transition-related surgery.
The state’s governor, Brad Little, a Republican, signed the “Vulnerable Child Protective Act” into law Tuesday evening. The measure prohibits transgender people under 18 from accessing puberty blockers and hormones.
Medical practitioners who violate the law, which takes effect Jan. 1, could be charged with a felony and spend up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Critics of the law say it amounts to government overreach and will end up harming, not helping, the state’s transgender youths. “We are heartbroken for the families of Idaho today. We are watching parental rights being dismantled in the name of stigmatizing and harming our most vulnerable youth,” Chelsea Gaona-Lincoln, executive director of the LGBTQ advocacy group
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