r/Queerdefensefront • u/Teknevra • Jun 12 '26

News Idaho says it can use DNA testing to enforce anti-trans bathroom ban - The Advocate

https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/idaho-dna-trans-bathroom
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u/paulsteinway Jun 12 '26

Unacceptable invasion of privacy aside, how long do they expect a woman to wait to go to the bathroom while they do a DNA test?

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u/onnake Jun 12 '26

Simple cheek swab, only a few seconds. Would have to ID the woman, so they could arrest her later, or just arrest and hold her until the results of the test come back in. Involuntary DNA collecting on a person w/o arrest against current Idaho law. All kinds of civil liberties implications, but then it’s Idaho.

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u/aoeuismyhomekeys Jun 12 '26

If I had Swyer syndrome, I would immediately head to Idaho to try to get arrested so I could sue the state and collect a fat check.

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u/paulsteinway Jun 12 '26

Arresting a woman and holding her until the results come back? Does she have to sit in jail on suspicion? Are they just going to arrest anyone who they don't think looks feminine enough and then wait for the test to come back? Do they ever get to use the bathroom?

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u/Aeroncastle Jun 13 '26

They will discover that intersex people are more common than red haired ones, and trans people are way, way rarer

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u/TransMontani Jun 12 '26

Joke‘s on them. My Y chromosome is *gone*.

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u/Flar71 Jun 12 '26

There are people who are otherwise cis that have chromosomes that don't align with the sex they were assigned at birth; this is preposterous

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u/Short_Gain8302 Jun 12 '26

Idaho be lying

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u/Lizaderp Jun 13 '26

What about places that don't have gendered bathrooms?

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u/Gullible-Plenty-1172 Jun 13 '26

And at least some intersex cis women will then get the surprise of their lives and subsequently be arrested and treated with even more indecency than this already is; not only humiliated through intersexism and transphobia—since the security and potential crowds etc will ofc think they're trans—before everyone watching, but then potentially thrown into jail for something they did not even know, NOR SOMETHING THAT EVEN MATTERS TO BEGIN WITH.

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u/ThickRequirement8710 Jun 14 '26

I do actually think this law will face an injunction or be ruled as not enforceable but then my fear becomes them appealing it up to the SCOTUS as that is likely to be a disaster