We are tracking 17 anti-trans bills in Wyoming in 2025. The legislation impacts 7 categories:
EDUCATION
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SPORTS
BATHROOM
HEALTHCARE
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AN ACT relating to supplemental appropriations for the operation of state government for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2026; providing definitions; providing additional appropriations and transfers of funds for the period of the budget; increasing or decreasing specified amounts; adjusting the number of positions; modifying prior appropriations; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other requirements relating to appropriations for the period of the budget as specified; providing for position and other budgetary limitations; providing for loans and loan repayments; and providing for an effective date.
No funds from this appropriation shall be expended on the office of diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Wyoming or on any diversity, equity and inclusion program, activity or function.
AN ACT relating to common law, statutes and rules of construction; specifying definitions and standards for the application of a person's biological sex in law, rules or regulations; providing for the law to distinguish between accommodations for males and females; requiring the collection of vital statistics and other data to identify persons as male or female at birth; and providing for an effective date.
The terms "woman" and "girl" refer to human females, and the terms "man" and "boy" refer to human males; (v) "Mother" means a parent of the female sex; (vi) "Father" means a parent of the male sex;
AN ACT relating to education; amending student eligibility requirements in interscholastic or intercollegiate activities; specifying requirements for the University of Wyoming and community colleges for student eligibility; prohibiting participation in athletic activities as specified; providing definitions; repealing alternate procedures for determining student eligibility; making conforming amendments; and providing for effective dates.
No school shall participate in any athletic activity designated for students of the female sex with or against a team that the school knows or, to a reasonable degree of certainty believes, has on the team a student of the male sex.
AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; specifying requirements for the use of sex-designated restrooms, showers, sleeping quarters and locker room facilities at public facilities; providing for complaints and civil actions; specifying duties for public entities; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.
Public facilities; changing areas exclusively for members of a single sex.
AN ACT relating to public health and safety; allowing health care providers, health care institutions and health care payers the right to refuse to participate in or pay for health care services as specified; authorizing religious-based health care organizations to make decisions consistent with religious beliefs; prohibiting discrimination for making health care decisions based on conscience; prohibiting adverse licensing actions based on protected expressive activity; specifying liability and damages for notice requirements; providing immunity; providing definitions; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.
Each health care provider, health care institution and health care payer shall have the right to refuse to participate in or pay for any health care service that violates the health care provider's, health care institution's or health care payer's conscience.
AN ACT relating to the administration of government; prohibiting governmental entities from engaging in any diversity, equity or inclusion program, activity or policy; prohibiting governmental entities engaging in institutional discrimination; prohibiting required attendance for certain programs or trainings; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; providing applicability; and providing for effective dates.
No governmental entity shall: (i) Engage in any diversity, equity or inclusion program, activity or policy; (ii) Engage in or require instruction in institutional discrimination; (iii) Require any student, employee or contractor to attend or participate in any diversity, equity or inclusion program or training or any institutional discrimination program or training.
AN ACT relating to children; providing legislative findings; specifying protections for specified adoption and foster care providers and parents; prohibiting discriminatory actions associated with adoption and foster care; specifying remedies and causes of action; making conforming amendments; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.
No governmental entity shall take any discriminatory action against a person: (i) That advertises, provides or facilitates adoption or foster care, wholly or partially on the basis that the person has provided or declined to provide any adoption or foster care service or related service based on or in a manner consistent with a sincerely held religious belief; (ii) To whom the governmental entity grants custody of a foster or adoptive child, or who seeks the custody of a foster or adoptive child, wholly or partially on the basis that the person guides, instructs or raises a child, or intends to guide, instruct or raise a child, based on or in a manner consistent with a sincerely held religious belief. For purposes of this paragraph, a governmental entity may consider whether a person shares the same religion or faith tradition as a foster or adoptive child when considering placement of the child in order to prioritize placement with a person of the same religion or faith tradition.
AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; authorizing prescribers to prescribe medications for off-label indication as specified; authorizing pharmacists to dispense medications for off-label indication as specified; providing prescribers and pharmacists immunity from disciplinary action as specified; providing for severability of provisions as specified; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.
A prescriber may lawfully prescribe a United States food and drug administration approved prescription drug for off-label indication, and a pharmacist is authorized to dispense a prescribed drug for off-label indication within their scope of practice pursuant to a valid prescription order.
AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; creating the crime of promoting obscenity to minors; amending the crime of promoting obscenity as specified; providing and amending definitions; repealing an exemption from the crime of promoting obscenity for activities conducted in the course of employment at a school, college, university, museum or public library; repealing obsolete provisions; and providing for an effective date.
(d) A person commits the crime of promoting obscenity to a minor if he, knowing the character of the material involved, knowingly: (i) Disseminates, furnishes, presents, provides, makes available, gives, lends, shows or advertises to a minor material that is harmful to minors;
AN ACT relating to education; clarifying procedures and requirements for school districts to provide parents notice of information regarding students; prohibiting school districts from requiring school district personnel and students to use a student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun does not align with the student's biological sex; requiring parental or guardian permission before instruction relating to diversity, equity or inclusion; authorizing school district personnel to opt out of mandatory trainings as specified; providing definitions; requiring reporting; and providing for an effective date.
AN ACT relating to education; clarifying procedures and requirements for school districts to provide parents notice of information regarding students; requiring school districts to publish and make materials available to parents; prohibiting school districts from requiring school district personnel and students to use a student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun does not align with the student's biological sex; requiring parental or guardian permission before instruction relating to diversity, equity or inclusion; authorizing school district personnel to opt out of mandatory trainings as specified;
AN ACT relating to public health and safety; allowing health care professionals, health care institutions and health care payers the right not to participate in or pay for health care services as specified; authorizing religious-based health care organizations to make decisions consistent with religious beliefs; prohibiting discrimination for making health care decisions based on conscience; prohibiting adverse licensing actions based on protected expressive activity; specifying liability and damages for notice requirements; providing immunity; providing definitions; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.
Each health care professional, health care institution and health care payer shall have the right not to participate in or pay for a health care service that violates the health care professional's, health care institution's or health care payer's conscience. No health care professional, health care institution or health care payer shall be required to participate in or pay for any health care service that violates the health care professional's, health care institution's or health care payer's conscience.
AN ACT relating to school sports; amending the prohibition on students of the male sex from competing on a team designated for students of the female sex to include institutions of higher education; providing whistleblower protections; providing for a cause of action; removing governmental immunity as specified; repealing alternate procedures for determining student eligibility; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.
AN ACT relating to supplemental appropriations for the operation of state government for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2026; providing definitions; providing additional appropriations and transfers of funds for the period of the budget; increasing or decreasing specified amounts; adjusting the number of positions; modifying prior appropriations; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other requirements relating to appropriations for the period of the budget as specified; providing for position and other budgetary limitations; providing for loans and loan repayments; and providing for an effective date.
No funds from this appropriation shall be expended on the office of diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Wyoming or on any diversity, equity and inclusion program, activity or function.
AN ACT relating to education; requiring students at the University of Wyoming and Wyoming community colleges to compete in intercollegiate athletic competitions based on their biological sex; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.
No educational institution shall allow: (i) A student to compete in an athletic competition sponsored or authorized by the educational institution that is designated for the sex opposite to the student's sex; (ii) A male student to compete in an athletic competition that is mixed-sex in a position that is designated by rule or procedure for female students
AN ACT relating to school districts; requiring public school children to use restrooms that align with their sex at birth; requiring reasonable accommodations; providing exceptions; providing penalties; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.
Ensure that each school district in the state requires every multiple occupancy restroom or changing room be designated for the exclusive use of the male sex or the exclusive use of the female sex. School districts that are found to be in noncompliance with this requirement shall lose their accreditation under W.S. 21-2-304(a)(ii) and 21-2-304(b)(ii).
AN ACT relating to the administration of government; prohibiting the state and its political subdivisions from requiring the use of preferred pronouns; authorizing a civil remedy; and providing for an effective date.
The state and its political subdivisions shall not compel or require an employee to refer to another employee using that employee's preferred pronouns.
AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; generally prohibiting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and mandates by state agencies and educational institutions; conditioning the expenditure of appropriated funds as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
Funds and expenditures for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts prohibited. [...] (i) "Diversity, equity and inclusion" includes any of the following: [...] (D) Conducting trainings, programs or activities designed or implemented in reference to race, color, ethnicity or gender dysphonia [sic]