Michael Hiltzik: Texas and Idaho show that red state attacks on transgender residents are getting more unhinged
You have to hand it to Idaho lawmakers. In a season in which red-state politicians are battling each other in the competition for who can produce the most extreme anti-transgender policies, the Boise legislature is poised to take home the trophy.
The Idaho House on Tuesday passed a measure that criminalizes gender-affirming therapies for children under 18, ranging from hormone and puberty-delaying treatments to surgery.
These treatments would be felonies subject to penalties of up to life in prison. Idaho's real breakthrough, however, is that the crimes would also include arranging for such treatment out of state.
In other words, you can be persecuted in the state, and persecuted for leaving the state.
"Move-away" laws aren't entirely unknown,
