We are tracking 3 anti-trans bills in Kentucky in 2025. The legislation impacts 2 categories:
HEALTHCARE
BATHROOM
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms;prohibit health care providers from accepting payment or reimbursement for gender transition services from a state or local government or Medicare, except when specific conditions exist; require licensing or certifying agencies to revoke a health care provider's license for a violation; create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 and Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304, and amend KRS 18A.225, 164.2871, and 304.17C-125 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program (KCHIP), state or local government health plans and limited health service benefit plans, health plans and limited health service benefit plans that provide Medicare benefits that are publicly funded or subsidized, the state employee health plan, and state postsecondary education institution self-insured health plans to comply with the prohibition on payment or coverage for gender transition services; state findings of the General Assembly relating to the purpose of the Act; apply certain provisions to health plans issued or renewed on or after the effective date of Act.
A health care provider shall not seek or accept payment or reimbursement for the rendering of gender transition services to any individual from any of the following: (a) A state or local government [...] or (b) A federal agency providing or administering Medicare benefits to or on behalf of a Medicare beneficiary
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to define terms; require at least 95% of restroom facilities in a specified school building be designated for a specific biological sex; amend KRS 156.160 to conform.
For each school building that is designed to serve more than one hundred (100) students, at least ninety five percent (95%) of the restroom facilities in the school building shall be designated by the school administration to be for a specific biological sex pursuant to KRS 158.189.
Invalidate Executive Order 2024-632 relating to the prohibition of state and federal funds being used for the practice of conversion therapy; EMERGENCY.
Executive Order 2024-632, prohibiting state and federal funds to be used for the practice of conversion therapy, shall not be valid as of the effective date of this Act.