Holding Us Hostage With Medical Bills!

Up in Idaho they are suing the APA and passing draconian anti-trans laws!

Becoming a political symbol: Transgender Idahoans talk about the realities of anti-trans health care laws
Northwest Public Broadcasting
By Rachel Sun
September 23, 2024

Julia Keleher had spent about a decade helping other transgender people access health care that affirms their gender identity before they started seeking it for themself a few years ago.

Keleher, who is nonbinary and uses she or they pronouns, said they often worked providing resources to transgender college students through their work at the University of Idaho’s LGBTQA Office. But until they were in their 30s, Keleher didn’t know medical transition could be an option for them.

That changed four years ago, when they read an article about low-dosing, or “microdosing” testosterone. The process is sometimes undertaken by nonbinary individuals who are assigned female at birth to achieve less than maximal masculinizing effects.

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The state now faces a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of two transgender Idaho inmates, who say the law is a violation of their Eighth Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment.

Idaho had already passed a total ban on gender-affirming care for minors in 2023 — but the new law affects adults.

Roughly 7,000 Idaho adults are estimated to be transgender, according to the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. The same institute estimates that across the U.S., approximately 21% of all transgender people in the country are Medicaid recipients.

The Republicans are rabid to force us back in the closet. They want nothing to do with us.

The Supreme Court has let the ban on our healthcare continue until the trail.

U.S. Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce gender care ban while lawsuit plays out
SCOTUS sides with state to allow enforcement of gender-affirming care ban for youth. Poe v. Labrador lawsuit remains ongoing.
Idaho Capitol Sun
By: Mia Maldonado
April 15, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed Idaho to enforce House Bill 71, a law banning Idaho youth from receiving gender-affirming care medications and surgeries.

In an opinion issued Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the state of Idaho’s request to stay the preliminary injunction, which blocked the law from taking effect. This means the preliminary injunction now only applies to the plaintiffs involved in Poe v. Labrador — a lawsuit brought on by the families of two transgender teens in Idaho who seek gender-affirming care.

Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision enforces the gender-affirming care ban for all other transgender youth in Idaho as the lawsuit remains ongoing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Idaho Statesman interviewed a number of trans people about living in Idaho.

Over 8,000 transgender and nonbinary people live in Idaho, according to estimates from the Williams Institute. They include students, fast food workers, artists, cooks, readers, a prison worker, musicians and grocery store clerks. They’re karaoke junkies, video game players and runners. And they’ve been targeted by a series of laws Idaho legislators passed in the past four years that limit their identities in public life and restrict their access to medical care.

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Many Republican elected officials in Idaho have continued to dismiss transgender identities, and a few have grown more vocally opposed. That includes Gov. Brad Little, who last month stood on the Capitol steps and reiterated his commitment to protecting “female athletes” by supporting the law that banned transgender women from participating.

Idaho Statesman reporters interviewed 14 people in the Treasure Valley who have felt inhibited by the state’s laws or fear they soon will be.

“Most of the time, I’m scared sh-tless,” Bonnie Violet Quintana, a 44-year-old transgender woman who grew up in Idaho, told the Statesman. “I’m scared to take the trash out or go check the mail … and part of that is because of the legislation and the laws, and all the extra complications.”

Scared of our government! You know where else they are scared of their government? North Korea, China, Russia, Iran, and Afghanistan. The Republicans are in good company.

My body, my choice!
My body, my choice!
My body, my choice!

Vote Harris/Walz! And the Democratic line on the ballot!