Activists clean up paper hearts strewn across the first floor of the Idaho State Capitol Building. Protestors on April 2, 2024, dropped 48,000 handmade hearts — meant to represent LGBTQ Idahoans, in protest of anti-LGBTQ legislation — down the rotunda of the Idaho State Capitol Building. (Kyle Pfannenstiel/Idaho Capital Sun)
A federal judge on Friday expanded a temporary block on an Idaho law for all incarcerated people in Idaho prisons diagnosed with gender dysphoria and receiving hormone therapy.
Judge David Nye’s revised temporary restraining order is in response to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Idaho on behalf of three transgender people in Idaho prisons who receive hormone therapy. They were going to lose access to their care after House Bill 668 took effect July 1 – which prohibits state funds and facilities from providing gender-affirming care.
Nye’s order doesn’t find the law valid or invalid, he wrote.
“Plaintiffs have raised serious questions going to the merits of this case and in light of the extreme time constraints,” the judge wrote.