174 bills
33 states
26 passed
142 failed
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In 2022, anti-trans legislation totals set a national record for the third year in a row. The 174 bills escalated the attack on trans individuals' access to basic healthcare, education, legal recognition, and the right to publicly exist. 26 were signed into law.
Gender-affirming care was also targeted, with Alabama passing the first bill to impose criminal penalties on providers of medically necessary and widely accepted gender-affirming care. Arizona also passed its own anti-trans healthcare bill. Louisiana commissioned their own study of the risks of "gender-altering" care.
A central feature of the majority of bills in 2022 was to enshrine into state law the definition of "man" and "woman" as being synonymous with a "biological sex" assigned at birth.
For example, The Save Women's Sports Act that passed in Oklahoma and South Carolina requires public and private educational institutions to expressly designate sports into segregated categories "based on the biological sex assigned at birth." Further, Fairness in Women's Sports bills passed in South Dakota and Louisiana along with similar bills in Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Utah, and Tennessee. These laws block trans students from participating in sports, but they also enshrine a state's stance of biological essentialism into law and fundamentally reject the autonomy of trans people.
Anti-trans bills doubled down on schools in 2022. States like Alabama, Arizona, and Florida passed parental rights laws promoted by The Heritage Foundation. These bills came into the spotlight when critics reframed Florida's legislation as the "Don't say gay" bill. The vague language used in these bills, including phrases like “age-appropriate”, have had a stifling effect on teachers, students, and parents who worry that even the mention of their families and relationships puts them at risk of punishment.
While sports and healthcare garnered the most press attention in 2022, several other laws passed that impacted government recognition and non-discrimination protections. Arizona carved out religious exemptions for discrimination. Meanwhile, Oklahoma declared an emergency in order to prohibit non-binary birth certificates.
Public schools, restrooms or changing areas, required to be used based on individual's biological sex, kindergarden to fifth grade classroom instruction, limited regarding sexual orientation or gender identity, St. Board of Education to adopt rules
Public health, minors, biological male or female, sexual state, practices to alter or affirm minor's sexual identity or perception such as prescribing puberty blocking medication or surgeries, prohibited, exceptions, nurses and school personnel not to withhold information from parents, violations a Class C felony
Parental rights; schools; educational records
Irreversible gender reassignment surgery; minors
Interscholastic; intramural athletics; biological sex
Adoption; foster care; religious discrimination
Individual Freedom
Parental Rights in Education
Education; curricula or training programs which encourage certain concepts; prevent use of
A bill for an act relating to student eligibility requirements in school district, accredited nonpublic school, regent institution, community college, and certain other institution of higher education athletics based on sex, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2309.) Effective date: 03/03/2022.
Participation in school sports.
AN ACT relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities.
AN ACT relating to athletics.
Requests a study of gender-altering procedures for minors and the risks associated with such procedures
Provides for the Fairness in Womens Sports Act relative to a school's ability to offer equal opportunities to each student to participate in team sporting events on an equal basis. (8/1/22) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Vital records; limiting biological sex designation on certificate of birth to male or female; prohibiting nonbinary designation. Emergency.
Student athletics; creating the Save Women's Sports Act; requiring certain athletic teams to be designated based on biological sex. Emergency.
Schools; requiring restrooms or changing areas to be used by individuals based on their sex; requiring certain accommodation. Emergency.
Save Women's Sports Act
Protect fairness in women's sports.
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to school sports.
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to participation in athletics.
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to school sports.
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to participation in athletics.
Student Eligibility in Interscholastic Activities
Sex-designated Interscholastic Athletics Indemnification