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Michael Toledo

What Is Idaho's Bathroom Bill? Transgender Rights at Risk Amid Controversial Misdemeanor and Felony Penalties

Opponents say Idaho’s bill criminalizes transgender people, causes confusion, and ignores evidence showing trans individuals do no harm in bathrooms. (Credit: billow926/Pexel)

Idaho lawmakers are advancing a bill that would make it a criminal offence to enter public or government bathrooms and changing rooms designated for another sex.

House Bill 752, which has already passed the state House, carries penalties ranging from a misdemeanour for a first offence, punishable by up to one year in prison, to a felony for a second offence within five years, carrying a maximum of five years in prison.

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