Trans Legislation Tracker

What anti-trans bills passed in 2024?

48 bills

This year, 48 bills have already passed. Of those, 46 have been signed into law. 2 others have passed, but haven't yet been vetoed or signed.

BATHROOM (4)EDUCATION (18)INCARCERATION (2)CIVIL RIGHTS (4)HEALTHCARE (10)OTHER (6)SPORTS (2)PERFORMANCE (1)BIRTH CERTIFICATES (1)

17 states

AlabamaFloridaIowaIdahoIndianaKansasLouisianaMississippiNew HampshireOhioOklahomaSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeUtahWest VirginiaWyoming

4 vetoed

So far this year, 4 bills passed and subsequently vetoed. These bills are not included in our passed bills count. In cases where a veto is overridden, bills will be labeled passed and included in the passed bills count.

Passed bills

AL SB129

BATHROOM
PASSED

Diversity, equity, and inclusion; certain public entities prohibited from maintaining office that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion programs; certain programs related to divisive concepts or diversity, equity, and inclusion, prohibited; promotion and endorsement of certain divisive concepts in certain public settings prohibited; exceptions provided; public institution of higher education, required to designate multioccupancy restrooms based on biological sex

Each public institution of higher education shall ensure that every multiple occupancy restroom be designated for use by individuals based on their biological sex

FL H1291

EDUCATION
PASSED

Educator Preparation Programs

Prohibits courses & curriculum of teacher preparation programs, postsecondary educator preparation institutes, professional learning certification programs, & school leader preparation programs from distorting certain events & including certain curriculum & instruction; & requires teacher preparation programs, postsecondary educator preparation institutes, professional learning certification programs, & school leader preparation programs to afford candidates certain opportunities.

Teacher preparation program courses [...] may not [...] include a curriculum or instruction that teaches identity politics, violates s. 1000.05, or is based on theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States and were created to maintain social, political, and economic inequities.

FL H1425

INCARCERATION
PASSED

Juvenile Justice

Authorizes DJJ employees & contracted providers to possess & administer opioid antagonists; provides immunity from liability for administration; replacing term "gender-specific" with "sex-specific"; eliminates minimum-risk nonresidential restrictiveness level; redesignates "nonsecure residential restrictiveness level" as "moderate-risk residential level"; revises provisions concerning transitioning child to & from secure detention care & supervised release detention care.

IA SF2435

EDUCATION
PASSED

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the education system, including the funding and operation of the department for the blind, department of education, and state board of regents; modifying provisions related to compulsory education, open enrollment, the state board of regents presidential search committee, the Iowa tuition grants program, and the Iowa dyslexia board; establishing restrictions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts of institutions of higher education governed by the state board of regents; providing penalties; and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3201.) Effective date: 05/09/2024, 07/01/2024, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2024.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion office prohibited. A public institution of higher education shall not [...] 1. Establish or maintain a diversity, equity, and inclusion office. [...] 3. Compel, require, induce, or solicit any person to provide a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement

ID H0421

CIVIL RIGHTS
PASSED

Amends existing law to define terms and to revise definitions regarding “sex” and “gender.”

INDIVIDUAL'S SEX -- Amends existing law to define terms and to revise definitions regarding “sex” and “gender.”

In human beings, there are two, and only two, sexes: male and female; (2) Every individual is either male or female; (3) An individual's sex can be observed or clinically verified at or before birth;

ID H0455

BATHROOM
PASSED

Amends existing law to make codifier's corrections.

CODIFIER'S CORRECTIONS -- Amends existing law to make codifier's corrections.

Requiring students to share restrooms and changing facilities with members of the opposite biological sex generates potential embarrassment, shame, and psychological injury to students, as well as increasing the likelihood of sexual assault, molestation, rape, voyeurism, and exhibitionism;

ID H0538

EDUCATION
PASSED

Adds to existing law to prohibit governmental entities in the State of Idaho from compelling employees and students to use certain titles and pronouns.

CIVIL RIGHTS -- Adds to existing law to prohibit governmental entities in the State of Idaho from compelling employees and students to use certain titles and pronouns.

A government employee, regardless of the scope of such employee's official duties, shall not be subject to adverse employment action for declining to: (a) Identify such employee's pronouns while acting within the scope of employment; or (b) Address a person using a name other than the person's legal name or a derivative thereof, or by a preferred personal title or pronoun that is inconsistent with the person's sex.

ID H0668

HEALTHCARE
PASSED

Adds to existing law to prohibit the use of public funds for gender transition procedures.

NO PUBLIC FUNDS FOR GENDER TRANSITION -- Adds to existing law to prohibit the use of public funds for gender transition procedures.

Public funds shall not be used, granted, paid, or distributed to any entity, organization, or individual for the provision or subsidy of any surgical operation or medical intervention [...] for purposes of altering the appearance of an individual in order to affirm the individual's perception of the individual's sex in a way that is inconsistent with the individual's biological sex regardless of whether the surgical operation or medical intervention is administered to a minor or an adult

ID H0710

EDUCATION
PASSED

Amends and adds to existing law to prohibit certain materials from being promoted, given, or made available to a minor by a school or public library, to provide for a cause of action, to provide for damages, and to provide for injunctive relief.

MINORS -- Amends and adds to existing law to prohibit certain materials from being promoted, given, or made available to a minor by a school or public library, to provide for a cause of action, to provide for damages, and to provide for injunctive relief.

CHILDREN'S SCHOOL AND LIBRARY PROTECTION. (1) This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Children's School and Library Protection Act." (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a school or public library, or an agent thereof, shall not promote, give, or make available to a minor: [...] (c) Any other material harmful to minors.

ID H0734

EDUCATION
PASSED

Relates to the appropriation to the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho for College and Universities and the Office of the State Board of Education for fiscal year 2025.

APPROPRIATIONS -- COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITIES -- Relates to the appropriation to the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho for College and Universities and the Office of the State Board of Education for fiscal year 2025.

State-appropriated funds shall not be utilized to support diversity, equity, inclusion, or social justice ideology as part of any student activities, clubs, events, or organizations campus. Each college and university shall submit a written report of its expenditures related to these activities to the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee no later than December 1, 2024.

ID S1352

HEALTHCARE
PASSED

Adds to existing law to provide that a counselor or therapist practicing in Idaho shall not be required to counsel a client in support of goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with the sincerely held religious, moral, or ethical principles of the counselor or therapist.

COUNSELORS AND THERAPISTS -- Adds to existing law to provide that a counselor or therapist practicing in Idaho shall not be required to counsel a client in support of goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with the sincerely held religious, moral, or ethical principles of the counselor or therapist.

(1) No person engaged in the practice of professional counseling or marriage and family therapy in the state of Idaho shall be required to provide counseling to or facilitate the counseling of a client in support of goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with the sincerely held religious, moral, or ethical principles of the counselor or therapist. (2) The declination to provide or facilitate counseling or therapy as described in subsection (1) of this section shall not be the basis for: (a) A civil cause of action; (b) Criminal prosecution; or (c) Disciplinary action pursuant to section 54-3407, Idaho Code. (3) The right to decline to provide or facilitate counseling or therapy as described in subsection (1) of this section is limited to conscience based objections to particular goals, outcomes, or behaviors that may be the objectives of particular types of counseling or therapy.

IN SB0202

EDUCATION
PASSED

State educational institution matters.

State educational institution matters. Amends the duties of state educational institutions' diversity committees. Provides that certain offices or individuals established or employed by a state educational institution (institution) regarding diversity programming must include within the mission of the office or position programming that substantially promotes both cultural and intellectual diversity. Establishes various requirements and restrictions for institutions regarding free inquiry, free expression, and intellectual diversity that does the following: (1) Requires the establishment of certain policies regarding: (A) disciplinary actions for certain persons that materially and substantially disrupt protected expressive activity; (B) limiting or restricting the granting of tenure or a promotion if certain conditions related to free inquiry, free expression, and intellectual diversity are not met; and (C) disciplinary actions that will be taken if, after a review, a determination has been made that a tenured faculty member has failed to meet certain criteria related to free inquiry, free expression, and intellectual diversity. (2) Requires the review and consideration, at least every five years, of certain criteria related to free inquiry, free expression, and intellectual diversity. (3) Requires the establishment of a procedure that allows students and employees to submit complaints that a faculty member or contractor is not meeting certain criteria related to free inquiry, free expression, and intellectual diversity and establishes requirements regarding the procedure and submitted complaints. (4) Establishes consideration requirements before an institution renews an employment agreement or other contract with, makes a bonus decision regarding, or completes a review or performance assessment of a faculty member or contractor. (5) Prohibits requiring an applicant, employee, or contractor to pledge allegiance to or make a statement of personal support for: (A) certain policies or actions; or (B) political or ideological movements. (6) Establishes restrictions regarding awarding admission, enrollment, employment, benefits, hiring, reappointment, promotion, or granting tenure to an applicant, employee, or contractor on the basis of the viewpoints expressed in a submitted pledge or statement. (7) Requires certain information be included in an institution's programming for new students. (8) Requires the adoption of a statement on neutrality that makes a distinction between the official positions of an institution from the individual viewpoints of the institution's employees, contractors, students, and alumni. (9) Allows the commission for higher education (commission) to establish a survey that attempts to collect information from students regarding the current perceptions of whether free speech and academic freedom are recognized and fostered by an institution in a manner that welcomes expression of different opinions and ideologies and requires an institution to promote and provide the survey to students. (10) Establishes various reporting requirements by institutions or the commission concerning complaints submitted regarding faculty members or contractors who are not meeting certain criteria related to free inquiry, free expression, and intellectual diversity. (11) Provides that certain individuals may request the commission to review a final decision by an institution concerning a violation of these provisions. Provides that the commission may enter into an agreement with the office of administrative law proceedings to review violations of certain provisions and issue an opinion on behalf of the commission. Requires each institution to submit certain information by September 1, 2024, and on September 1 of each year thereafter.

An institution may not require an applicant, an employee, or a person described in subsection (a) to [...] make a statement of personal support for any: (1) policy or action that would treat similarly situated people or groups of people differently based on the race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, or religion; or (2) political or ideological movement.

KS HB2436

OTHER
PASSED

Senate Substitute for HB 2436 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the crime of coercion to obtain an abortion and providing enhanced criminal penalties for offenses committed with the intent to coerce a woman to obtain an abortion.

PASSED

House Substitute for SB 291 by Committee on Legislative Modernization - Transferring all cybsersecurity services under the chief information technology officer of each branch of government, creating chief information security officers within the judicial and legislative branches, requiring a chief information security officer to be appointed by the attorney general, Kansas bureau of investigation, secretary of state, state treasurer and insurance commissioner and requiring the chief information security officers to implement certain minimum cybersecurity standards, requiring the information technology executive council to develop a plan to integrate executive branch information technology services under the executive chief information technology officer, making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2025, and June 30, 2026, for the office of information technology, Kansas information security office and the adjutant general, authorizing certain transfers and imposing certain limitations and restrictions and directing or authorizing certain disbursements and procedures for all state agencies and requiring legislative review of state agencies not in compliance with this act.

LA HB121

EDUCATION
PASSED

Provides relative to the use of certain names and pronouns for students

An employee shall use the name [...] for a student that is listed on the student's birth certificate unless the student's parent provides written permission to do otherwise.

LA HB122

EDUCATION
PASSED

Provides relative to discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools

Sexual orientation, gender identity; prohibited instruction, discussion. No teacher, school employee, or other presenter at a school shall engage in the following discussions with students in grades kindergarten through twelve: (1) Covering the topics of sexual orientation or gender identity in any classroom discussion or instruction in a manner that deviates from state content standards or curricula developed or approved by public school governing authorities. (2) Covering the topics of sexual orientation or gender identity during any extracurricular academic, athletic, or social activity under the jurisdiction of the school or public school governing authority. (3) Discussing his own sexual orientation or gender identity.

LA HB608

CIVIL RIGHTS
PASSED

Creates the Women's Safety and Protection Act (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

No governmental agency [...] shall prohibit distinctions between the sexes with respect to athletics, correctional facilities, juvenile detention facilities, domestic violence shelters, or other accommodation

PASSED

SAFER Act; enact.

An Act To Create New Section 29-18-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Create The "safer Act" To Regulate Governmental Buildings; To Create New Section 29-18-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide Legislative Findings For The Act; To Create New Section 29-18-5, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide Definitions For The Act; To Create New Section 29-18-7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Certain Public Education Buildings To Have Exclusive Male And/or Female Restrooms Or Single-sex Or Family Use Restrooms At A Minimum; To Create New Section 29-18-9, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Changing Facilities To Be Exclusive Male And/or Female Or Single-sex Or Family-use At A Minimum; To Create New Section 29-18-11, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Regulate Public Student Housing For Single-sex Educational Housing; To Create New Section 29-18-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Single-sex Social Sororities And Fraternities To Comply With The Definitions Of This Act To Designate Housing; To Create New Section 29-18-15, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Regulate How Persons Enter A Single-sex Restroom, Changing Facility Or Educational Housing Space; To Create New Section 29-18-17, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Authorize Assertion Of A Violation Of This Act; To Create New Section 29-18-19, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Authorize The Attorney General To Bring Action Regarding The Provisions Of This Act; To Create New Section 1-3-83, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Define The Terms "female," "male" And "sex"; And For Related Purposes.

The term "female," when used in any statute, shall mean an individual who has, had, will have through the course of normal development, or would have had, but for a developmental anomaly, genetic anomaly, disease, or injury, the reproductive system that at some point produces ova.

NH HB1205

SPORTS
PASSED

Relative to women's school sports.

“Female” means an individual whose biological sex determined at birth is female. As used in this section, “women” or “girls” refers to biological females. (e) “Male” means an individual whose biological sex determined at birth is male. As used in this section, “men” or “boys” refers to biological males.

NH HB1312

EDUCATION
PASSED

Requiring parental notification of student health or well-being and certain curricula by school districts.

Require school districts to adopt a policy [...] to require the school district or classroom teacher to provide parents and legal guardians not less than 2 weeks advance notice of any curriculum course material used for instruction or program of human sexuality, human sexual education, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or gender expression.

NH HB619

HEALTHCARE
PASSED

To require a person to attain the age of majority for genital gender reassignment surgery.

A physician or other health care professional shall not provide gender transition procedures to any individual under 18 years of age. II. A physician or other health care professional shall not refer any individual under 18 years of age to any health care professional for gender transition procedures.

OH HB214

EDUCATION
PASSED

Regards public school staff member professional duties

To amend sections 3314.03, 3326.11, and 3328.24 and to enact sections 3319.614 and 3320.04 of the Revised Code to enact the "Religious Expression Days" or "R.E.D." Act to require each public school to adopt a policy that reasonably accommodates the sincerely held religious beliefs and practices of students; to require each public school to adopt a policy regarding certain expectations related to the performance of staff member professional duties; and to amend the version of section 3314.03 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect January 1, 2025, to continue the changes on and after that effective date.

The board of education of each school district shall adopt a policy declaring [...] the following: (1) The school district shall not solicit or require an employee, student, or applicant for employment or academic admission to affirmatively ascribe to, or opine about, specific beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles concerning political movements, ideology, or social action.

OH HB68

HEALTHCARE
PASSED

Enact Ohio Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act

To enact sections 3109.054, 3129.01, 3129.02, 3129.03, 3129.04, 3129.05, 3129.06, 3313.5319, and 3345.562 of the Revised Code to enact the Saving Ohio Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act regarding gender transition services for minors, and to enact the Save Women's Sports Act to require schools, state institutions of higher education, and private colleges to designate separate single-sex teams and sports for each sex.

OH SB104

BATHROOM
PASSED - PENDING GOVERNOR SIGNATURE

Regards the College Credit Plus Program

To amend sections 3302.03, 3314.03, 3326.11, 3365.03, 3365.04, 3365.05, 3365.11, and 3365.15 and to enact sections 3319.90, 3345.90, and 3365.14 of the Revised Code regarding the College Credit Plus Program and to enact the Protect All Students Act regarding single-sex bathroom access in primary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education.

To enact the Protect All Students Act regarding single-sex bathroom access in primary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education.

OK HB1449

CIVIL RIGHTS
PASSED

Discrimination; enacting the Women's Bill of Rights; effective date.

As used in the Oklahoma Statutes: 1. "Father" means the male parent of a child or children as defined in Section 7 of this title; 2. "Female" means a natural person whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova; 3. "Male" means a natural person whose biological reproductive system is developed to fertilize the ova of a female; 4. "Man" or "boy" means a natural person who is male; 5. "Mother" means the female parent of a child or children as defined in Section 7 of this title; 6. "Natural person" means a person as defined in paragraph 7 of this section, except for bodies politic or corporate; 7. "Person", except when used by way of contrast, includes not only human beings, but bodies politic or corporate; 8. "Sex" means a natural person’s biological sex at birth; and 9. "Woman" or "girl" means a natural person who is female.

SC H4624

HEALTHCARE
PASSED

Gender Reassignment Procedures

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Chapter 42 To Title 44 So As To Define Gender, Sex, And Other Terms, To Prohibit The Provision Of Gender Transition Procedures To A Person Under Eighteen Years Of Age, To Provide Exceptions, To Prohibit The Use Of Public Funds For Gender Transition Procedures, And To Provide Penalties; And By Adding Section 59-32-36 So As To Prohibit Public School Staff And Officials From Withholding Knowledge Of A Minor's Perception Of Their Gender From The Minor's Parents, Among Other Things. - Ratified Title

(A) A physician, mental health provider, or other health care professional shall not knowingly provide gender transition procedures to a person under eighteen years of age.

SC H5100

BATHROOM
PASSED

Budget

Make Appropriations And To Provide Revenues To Meet The Ordinary Expenses Of State Government For The Fiscal Year Beginning July 1, 2024, To Regulate The Expenditure Of Such Funds, And To Further Provide For The Operation Of State Government During This Fiscal Year And For Other Purposes. - Ratified Title

Amendment No. 48 [...] (1) Multi-occupancy public school restrooms and changing facilities shall be designated for use only by members of one sex. Any public school restrooms and changing facilities that are designated for one sex shall be used only by members of that sex; no person shall enter a restroom or changing facility that is designated for one sex unless he or she is a member of that sex; and the public school with authority over that building shall take reasonable steps to ensure that all restrooms and changing facilities provide its users with privacy from members of the opposite sex.

SD HB1178

PERFORMANCE
PASSED

Prohibit the Board of Regents or any institution under its control from using state resources for obscene live conduct.

The Board of Regents and any institution under its control may not: (1) Authorize the use of any state-owned facility or property to develop, implement, facilitate, host, or promote any obscene live conduct; or (2) Expend any public moneys in support of obscene live conduct. For purposes of this section, the term "obscene live conduct" has the meaning given in § 22-24-27.

TN HB1634

EDUCATION
PASSED

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to kindergarten through grade twelve education.

As enacted, revises language prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on certain, specified bases to generally prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on any basis. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-5-1003(b)(10), is amended by deleting "family, social, or cultural background; or sexual orientation" and substituting "family background; or the student's membership in a protected class under federal or state law".

TN HB2165

EDUCATION
PASSED

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to K-12 education.

As enacted, requires a request made by a student to an employee of the student's LEA or public charter school for an accommodation to affirm the student's gender identity to be reported to a school administrator and to the student's parent; prohibits an employee of an LEA or public charter school from knowingly providing false or misleading information to a student's parent regarding the student's gender identity or intention to transition to a gender that differs from the student's sex at the time of birth; authorizes civil actions to be filed by parents and by the attorney general and reporter against a noncompliant LEA or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49.

An employee of an LEA or public charter school shall not knowingly give false or misleading information to the parent of a student regarding the student's gender identity or the student's intention to transition to a gender that differs from the sex listed on the student's official birth certificate or certificate of birth issued upon adoption, if the certificate of birth was issued at or near the time of the student's birth.

PASSED

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37, relative to the Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act.

As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act," which generally prohibits the department of children's services from requiring a current or prospective adoptive or foster parent to affirm, accept, or support any government policy regarding sexual orientation or gender identity that conflicts with the parent's sincerely held religious or moral beliefs; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 37.

The department shall not establish or enforce a standard, rule, or policy that precludes consideration of a parent for a placement based, in whole or in part, upon the parent's sincerely held religious or moral beliefs regarding sexual orientation or gender identity. Such beliefs do not create a presumption that any particular placement is contrary to the best interest of the child.

TN HB2310

HEALTHCARE
PASSED

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 68, relative to prohibited medical procedures.

As enacted, creates a civil cause of action against any person who intentionally recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor within this state for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure, regardless of where the medical procedure is to be procured. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 68.

A person shall not knowingly remove a minor from this state without the consent of a parent of the minor if the purpose of the removal is to assist the minor in obtaining a medical procedure that, if performed by a healthcare provider within this state, would be a violation of this section.

TN HB2619

HEALTHCARE
PASSED

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41, relative to the department of correction.

As enacted, generally prohibits the department from using state funds to administer hormone replacement therapy to state inmates incarcerated in a state penitentiary or a county jail or workhouse, or for sex reassignment surgery for state inmates incarcerated in a state penitentiary or a county jail or workhouse. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

The department of correction shall not use state funds: (i) To administer hormone replacement therapy to state inmates incarcerated in a state penitentiary or a county jail or workhouse. [...] (ii) For sex reassignment surgery for state inmates incarcerated in a state penitentiary or a county jail or workhouse.

PASSED

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37, relative to the Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act.

As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act," which generally prohibits the department of children's services from requiring a current or prospective adoptive or foster parent to affirm, accept, or support any government policy regarding sexual orientation or gender identity that conflicts with the parent's sincerely held religious or moral beliefs; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 37.

The department shall not establish or enforce a standard, rule, or policy that precludes consideration of a parent for a placement based, in whole or in part, upon the parent's sincerely held religious or moral beliefs regarding sexual orientation or gender identity. Such beliefs do not create a presumption that any particular placement is contrary to the best interest of the child

TN SB1810

EDUCATION
PASSED

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to K-12 education.

As enacted, requires a request made by a student to an employee of the student's LEA or public charter school for an accommodation to affirm the student's gender identity to be reported to a school administrator and to the student's parent; prohibits an employee of an LEA or public charter school from knowingly providing false or misleading information to a student's parent regarding the student's gender identity or intention to transition to a gender that differs from the student's sex at the time of birth; authorizes civil actions to be filed by parents and by the attorney general and reporter against a noncompliant LEA or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49.

The department shall not establish or enforce a standard, rule, or policy that precludes consideration of a parent for a placement based, in whole or in part, upon the parent's sincerely held religious or moral beliefs regarding sexual orientation or gender identity. Such beliefs do not create a presumption that any particular placement is contrary to the best interest of the child

TN SB2766

EDUCATION
PASSED

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to kindergarten through grade twelve education.

As enacted, revises language prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on certain, specified bases to generally prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on any basis. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-5-1003(b)(10), is amended by deleting "family, social, or cultural background; or sexual orientation" and substituting "family background; or the student's membership in a protected class under federal or state law".

TN SB2782

HEALTHCARE
PASSED

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 68, relative to prohibited medical procedures.

As enacted, creates a civil cause of action against any person who intentionally recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor within this state for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure, regardless of where the medical procedure is to be procured. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 68.

A person shall not knowingly remove a minor from this state without the consent of a parent of the minor if the purpose of the removal is to assist the minor in obtaining a medical procedure that, if performed by a healthcare provider within this state, would be a violation of this section.

TN SB2861

HEALTHCARE
PASSED

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41, relative to the department of correction.

As enacted, generally prohibits the department from using state funds to administer hormone replacement therapy to state inmates incarcerated in a state penitentiary or a county jail or workhouse, or for sex reassignment surgery for state inmates incarcerated in a state penitentiary or a county jail or workhouse. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

The department of correction shall not use state funds: (i) To administer hormone replacement therapy to state inmates incarcerated in a state penitentiary or a county jail or workhouse. [...] (ii) For sex reassignment surgery for state inmates incarcerated in a state penitentiary or a county jail or workhouse.

PASSED

Child Custody Factor Amendments

In considering the past conduct and demonstrated moral standards of each party under 127 Subsection (2)(d) or any other factor a court finds relevant, the court may not: (b) discriminate against a parent based upon the parent's agreement or disagreement with a minor child of the couple's: (i) assertion that the child's gender identity is different from the child's biological sex; or (ii) practice of having or expressing a different gender identity than the child's biological sex.

UT HB0172

SPORTS
PASSED

Student Athlete Participation Amendments

If H.B. 172, Student Athlete Participation Amendments, and H.B. 257, Sex-Based Designations for Privacy, Anti-bullying, and Women's Opportunities, both pass and become law, the Legislature intends that, on the effective date of H.B. 172: (1) the following language be inserted as new Subsection (4) in Section 63G-31-201, enacted in H.B. 257: "(4) Notwithstanding Subsections (1) through (3), this chapter does not apply to: (a) the School Activity Eligibility Commission created in Section 53G-6-1003; or (b) in the context of a student who has obtained the eligibility approval of the commission under Subsection 53G-6-1004(2) to participate in a gender-designated interscholastic activity that does not correspond with the sex designation on the student's birth certificate, as those terms are defined in Section 53G-6-1001."

UT HB0257

CIVIL RIGHTS
PASSED

Sex-based Designations for Privacy, Anti-bullying, and Women's Opportunities

Each government entity shall ensure the preservation of distinctions on the basis of sex that protect individual privacy and competitive opportunity, as described in this chapter. (3) (a) To preserve the individual privacy and competitive opportunity of females, an individual is not entitled to and may not access, use, or benefit from a government or otherwise publicly funded facility, program, or event if: (i) the facility, program, or event is designated for females; and (ii) the individual is not female. (b) To preserve the individual privacy and competitive opportunity of males, an individual is not entitled to and may not access, use, or benefit from a government or otherwise publicly funded facility, program, or event if: (i) the facility, program, or event is designated for males; and (ii) the individual is not male

UT HB0261

EDUCATION
PASSED

Equal Opportunity Initiatives

An institution may not [...] engage in prohibited discriminatory practices; [...] "Prohibited discriminatory practice" also means engaging in or maintaining a policy, procedure, practice, program, office, initiative, or required training that [...] is referred to or named diversity, equity, and inclusion [...] establish or maintain an office, division, employment position, or other unit of an institution established to implement, develop, plan, or promote campus policies, procedures, practices, programs, or initiatives, regarding prohibited discriminatory practices [or] employ or assign an employee or a third-party whose duties for an institution include coordinating, creating, developing, designing, implementing, organizing, planning, or promoting policies, programming, training, practices, activities, and procedures relating to prohibited discriminatory practices.

UT HB0316

INCARCERATION
PASSED

Inmate Assignment Amendments

The department may not: (a) assign an inmate whose biological sex at birth is male to a living area where an inmate whose biological sex at birth is female is assigned; or (b) assign an inmate whose biological sex at birth is female to a living area where an inmate whose biological sex at birth is male is assigned.

UT HCR301

EDUCATION
PASSED

Concurrent Resolution-directives to Government Officers Under the Utah Constitutional Sovereignty Act in Regard to Title IX

This concurrent resolution directs government officers to comply with Utah laws where there is a conflict with the new regulations adopted under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, effective August 1, 2024.

UT HJR301

EDUCATION
FAILED

Joint Resolution-legislative Findings on State Sovereignty in Regard to Title IX

This resolution: [...] declares through legislative findings that the federal directive under the new regulations promulgated under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, effective August 1, 2024 (New Regulations), constitutes an overreach of federal administrative authority that violates Utah's rights and interests to provide for the health, safety, welfare of, and to promote the prosperity of, Utah residents;

WV HB4233

BIRTH CERTIFICATES
PASSED

Non-binary not permitted on birth certificates

The purpose of this bill is to require birth certificates issued in this state to include the gender of the child at birth and prohibit use of the term "non-binary" on birth certificates.

The birth certificate shall list the child's sex at birth as male or female and may not use the term "non-binary."

WY SF0009

EDUCATION
PASSED

Parental rights in education-1.

AN ACT relating to education; specifying procedures and requirements for school districts to provide parents and guardians notice of information regarding students and the rights of parents and guardians to make decisions regarding their children; specifying that school districts cannot prohibit parental or guardian notifications and involvement in critical decisions involving students; specifying procedures for resolving parent or guardian concerns and complaints; specifying duties for school districts; requiring adoption of necessary policies, rules and procedures; and providing for effective dates.

Each school district shall [...] obtain written or electronic permission from each student's parent or legal guardian not less than one (1) day prior to the student participating or receiving instruction in any trainings, courses or classes that address sexual orientation or gender identity.

WY SF0099

HEALTHCARE
PASSED

Children gender change prohibition.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting physicians from performing procedures for children related to gender transitioning and gender reassignment; providing an exception; providing that gender transitioning and reassignment procedures are grounds for suspension or revocation of a physician's or health care provider's license; providing definitions; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

No physician or health care provider shall: [...] Provide, administer, prescribe or dispense [...] prescription drugs that induce [...] puberty suppression or blocking prescription drugs to stop or delay normal puberty; [...] Supraphysiologic doses of testosterone to females [...] Supraphysiologic doses of estrogen to males.

Vetoed bills

WI AB1065

EDUCATION
VETOED

Prohibiting University of Wisconsin System institutions and technical colleges from using loyalty pledges and requiring them to make certain information publicly available.

An Act to create 36.13, 38.235 and 801.50 (5d) of the statutes; Relating to: prohibiting University of Wisconsin System institutions and technical colleges from using loyalty pledges and requiring them to make certain information publicly available.

Neither an institution nor an institutional review board associated with an institution may do any of the following: Condition admission of or financial aid to an applicant [or] condition the recognition or funding of any student organization [or] condition the hiring, reappointment, annual review, performance review, or promotion of a faculty member or prospective faculty member, or the research approval for a researcher on the organization or a student pledging allegiance to or making a statement of personal support for or opposition to any political ideology or movement, including a pledge or statement regarding diversity, equity, inclusion, or related topics [or] request or require a pledge or statement described [...] from an applicant for admission, a student or student organization, or a faculty member or prospective faculty member.

WI AB377

SPORTS
VETOED

Designating athletic sports and teams operated or sponsored by public schools or private schools participating in a parental choice program based on the sex of the participants.

An Act to amend 118.13 (1); and to create 118.132 of the statutes; Relating to: designating athletic sports and teams operated or sponsored by public schools or private schools participating in a parental choice program based on the sex of the participants.

The three designations are 1) males, 2) females, and 3) males and females. The bill defines “sex” as the sex determined at birth by a physician and reflected on the birth certificate. The bill also requires an educational institution to prohibit a male pupil from participating on an athletic team or in an athletic sport designated for females. Finally, the bill requires the educational institution to notify pupils and parents if an educational institution intends to change a designation for an athletic team or sport.

WI AB465

HEALTHCARE
VETOED

Prohibiting gender transition medical intervention for individuals under 18 years of age.

An Act to amend 441.07 (2), 448.02 (6), 448.02 (9) (intro.) and 448.978 (2) (intro.); and to create 146.36, 441.07 (1j), 448.02 (3m) and 448.978 (1m) of the statutes; Relating to: prohibiting gender transition medical intervention for individuals under 18 years of age.

This bill prohibits health care providers from engaging in, causing the engagement in, or making referrals for, certain medical intervention practices upon an individual under 18 years of age if done for the purpose of changing the minor's body to correspond to a sex that is discordant with the minor's biological sex.

WI AB510

EDUCATION
VETOED

Rights reserved to a parent or guardian of a child.

An Act to create 48.9865 of the statutes; Relating to: rights reserved to a parent or guardian of a child.

The right to timely notice by the child's school, through a process consistent with school policy, of when a controversial subject will be taught or discussed in the child's classroom. The bill defines “controversial subject” as a subject of substantial public debate, disagreement, or disapproval and specifies that the term includes instruction about gender identity, sexual orientation, [...] or content that is not age-appropriate. [...] The right to opt out of a class or instructional materials at the child's school for reasons based on either religion or personal conviction.