550 bills
42 states
31 passed
326 active
193 failed
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We're tracking 45 national bills in the United States in 2024.
In 2023, an unprecedented 37 bills were introduced at the federal level across categories like healthcare, student athletics, the military, incarceration, and education. We'll continue to provide updates from the 118th United States Congress, which runs from 2023-2024.
In 2024, 31 anti-trans bills have passed so far.
The number of anti-trans bills considered across the U.S. has broken records for four consecutive years. In 2023, the total number of bills considered surged more than three times the previous record. In 2024, we're already tracking 550 bills.
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Bills are being introduced rapidly in 2024. We're tracking legislation in 42 states, as well as nationally. Here's a snapshot of the states with the most anti-trans bills under consideration.
State | Number of Bills |
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Oklahoma | 60 |
National | 45 |
Missouri | 44 |
South Carolina | 34 |
We display category labels on each bill to indicate the primary areas they impact. Each category may include bills with a variety of impacts, scope, and methods of enforcement.
The "education" label is applied to bills that directly target educational settings. Within this broad category, bills seek to allow misgendering, deny students name and pronoun autonomy, forcibly out trans students to their parents, ban basic gender identity instruction, and more. Many bills in the education category propose more than one of these outcomes in a single bill.
Not every bill fits neatly into one category. For instance, "sports" bills overlap considerably with education, creating rules about inclusion in K-12 and higher education. While these bills narrow in on athletics, they also seek to codify sweeping definitions of gender and sex. Over one third of states have already passed laws banning transgender students from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity.
Bills seeking to deny gender-affirming care, medical care that is supported by every major medical association, has surged in recent years. In 2023, the number of healthcare bills increase five fold. We will continue to track healthcare bills as they are introduced in 2024.
The legislation in other categories would write transgender people out of state definitions, impact the ability of people to get and update government identification, use public facilities, and much more.
Our data has supported news organizations, researchers, policy makers, medical associations, and U.S. government agencies in highlighting the harm of anti-trans legislation.
We invite you to explore the texts of anti-trans bills. Below, you will find excerpts from bills that are being considered across the U.S. in 2024. Each excerpt links back to the bill listing where you can see the full details and read the complete bill.
Legislative sessions are just getting started in 2024, and each state has its own calendar. Find your state's schedule in the comprehensive list below.
State | Session | Convenes | Adjourns |
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Alabama | 2024 Regular Session | 2/6/24 | 5/20/24 |
Alaska | 33rd Legislature | 1/16/24 | 5/15/24 |
Arizona | 56th Legislature | 1/8/24 | 4/26/24 |
Arkansas | 94th General Assembly | 4/10/24 | 5/9/24 |
California | 2024-2024 Biennium | 1/3/24 | 8/31/24 |
Colorado | 2024 Regular Session | 1/10/24 | 5/8/24 |
Connecticut | 2024 Regular Session | 2/7/24 | 5/8/24 |
Delaware | 152nd General Assembly | 1/9/24 | 6/30/24 |
Florida | 2024 Regular Session | 1/9/24 | 3/8/24 |
Georgia | 2024-2024 Biennium | 1/8/24 | 3/28/24 |
Hawaii | 2024 Regular Session | 1/17/24 | 5/2/24 |
Idaho | 2024 Regular Session | 1/8/24 | 3/28/24 |
Illinois | 103rd General Assembly | 1/16/24 | 5/24/25 |
Indiana | 2024 Regular Session | 1/8/24 | 3/14/24 |
Iowa | 90th General Assembly | 1/8/24 | 4/16/24 |
Kansas | 2024-2024 Biennium | 1/8/24 | 5/3/24 |
Kentucky | 2024 Regular Session | 1/2/24 | 4/15/24 |
Louisiana | 2024 Regular Session | 3/11/24 | 6/4/24 |
Maine | 131st Legislature | 1/3/24 | 4/17/24 |
Maryland | 2024 Regular Session | 1/10/24 | 4/8/24 |
Massachusetts | 193rd General Court | 1/3/24 | 1/2/25 |
Michigan | 102nd Legislature | 1/10/24 | 12/31/24 |
Minnesota | 93rd Legislature | 2/12/24 | 5/20/24 |
Mississippi | 2024 Regular Session | 1/2/24 | 5/5/24 |
Missouri | 2024 Regular Session | 1/3/24 | 5/17/24 |
Montana | No Regular Session in 2024 | ||
Nebraska | 108th Legislature | 1/3/24 | 4/18/24 |
Nevada | No Regular Session in 2024 | ||
New Hampshire | 2024 Regular Session | 1/3/24 | 6/30/24 |
New Jersey | 2024-2025 Biennium | 1/9/24 | 1/13/26 |
New Mexico | 2024 Regular Session | 1/16/24 | 2/15/24 |
New York | 2024-2024 Biennium | 1/3/24 | 1/2/25 |
North Carolina | 2024-2024 Biennium | 4/24/24 | 7/31/24 |
North Dakota | No Regular Session in 2024 | ||
Ohio | 135th General Assembly | 1/2/24 | 12/31/24 |
Oklahoma | 2024 Regular Session | 2/5/24 | 5/31/24 |
Oregon | 2024 Regular Session | 2/5/24 | 3/10/24 |
Pennsylvania | 2024-2024 Biennium | 1/2/24 | 11/30/24 |
Rhode Island | 2024 Regular Session | 1/2/24 | 6/30/24 |
South Carolina | 125th General Assembly | 1/9/24 | 5/9/24 |
South Dakota | 2024 Regular Session | 1/9/24 | 3/25/24 |
Tennessee | 113th General Assembly | 1/9/24 | 4/25/24 |
Texas | No Regular Session in 2024 | ||
Utah | 2024 Regular Session | 1/16/24 | 3/1/24 |
Vermont | 2024-2024 Biennium | 1/3/24 | 5/9/24 |
Virginia | 2024 Regular Session | 1/10/24 | 3/9/24 |
Washington | 2024-2024 Biennium | 1/8/24 | 3/7/24 |
West Virginia | 2024 Regular Session | 1/10/24 | 3/9/24 |
Wisconsin | 2024-2024 Biennium | 1/2/24 | 1/2/25 |
Wyoming | 2024 Budget Session | 2/12/24 | 3/8/24 |
District of Columbia | 25th Council | 1/2/24 | 12/31/24 |
US Congress | 118th Congress | 1/3/24 | 10/30/24 |
If you want to learn about the recent history of anti-trans legislation in the United States, start with our overview of anti-trans data. The overview documents the steep rise in bills targeting trans kids and adults.
Our further reading recommendations curate articles exploring the language and arguments employed in these transphobic bills, as well as the organizations promoting anti-trans legislation.
We strive to present the most comprehensive and up-to-date data record of anti-trans legislation in the United States. Trans Legislation Tracker maintains an expanding archive of historical data regarding U.S. anti-trans bills. You can take a deeper dive into recent years through our annual reports featured below.
This annual review describes the doubling down of efforts to limit transgender healthcare for youth and adults in 2023. We chart the ballooning number of bills targeting educational settings (bathrooms, sports, pronoun use, gender identity education, etc.), and the unprecedented wave of national anti-trans bills.
The 2022 recap highlights the large number of bills seeking to enshrine into state law the definition of "man" and "woman" as being synonymous with a "biological sex" assigned at birth. We look back at Florida's "Don't say gay" bill, Oklahoma's declaration of an emergency in order to prohibit non-binary birth certificates, and the first passage of a law to impose criminal penalties on providers of gender-affirming care.