As many state legislative sessions reach the home stretch, activity on Do No Harm Action’s key issue areas is only increasing.

Recently, Idaho’s legislature passed a bill, HB 822, to vindicate parental rights by ensuring that schools and healthcare providers cannot facilitate secret gender transitions of minors. The bill requires these institutions to inform parents if they are asked “to participate in or facilitate the social transition of the minor student.”

These secret transition policies are not just an affront to parents’ rights but are a dangerous first step toward pushing young children onto the transgender medicalization pathway. It’s excellent news that Idaho lawmakers are taking action on this issue.

Governor Brad Little signed the bill into law on Friday.

Little also just signed into law HB 928, which requires that “Medicaid-funded employment and contracting decisions be based solely on merit, professional qualifications, and clinical competency.”

In other words, hospitals receiving federal Medicaid dollars must use merit-based metrics in their hiring procedures and policies. This law is essential to ensure that Idaho’s healthcare system is committed to excellence in clinical practice.

Meanwhile, in Louisiana, legislation to ensure that medical schools are rewarding students on the basis of merit passed the state’s House of Representatives.

SB 234 requires medical schools to adopt a “tiered” grading system, preventing schools from having in place binary “pass/fail” systems that don’t accurately assess competency.

Then, in New Hampshire, there’s yet another good sign for legislation allowing individuals harmed by child sex change interventions to get justice.

HB 1356, which expands the time period for a person to file a claim for “violation of the prohibition on medical procedures intended to change a minor’s gender” from two years to 10 years from the date the minor reaches the age of majority, has passed Senate committee.

The bill creates a private right of action for individuals harmed by these procedures and enables them to seek damages.

And finally, in Tennessee, the state Senate is preparing to vote on a crucial piece of legislation aimed at protecting those victimized by the child transgender industry. This bill, which resembles Do No Harm Action’s model “Detransitioner Bill of Rights,” requires gender clinics performing sex-rejecting procedures to also perform detransition procedures, and requires insurance plans that cover gender transition procedures to also cover detransition procedures.

Also in Tennessee, legislation to create a private right of action for victims of child sex change procedures has passed the legislature and awaits the governor’s signature.

This week saw tremendous action, with lawmakers passing two important bills and another making its way into law.

Do No Harm Action is proud to support legislation like this that protects children from the harms of gender ideology and ensures merit, fairness, and excellence are the guiding principles of medicine.