Legislative Research

CALIFORNIA

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

SB 923 Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund to establish inclusive health care for transgender, gender nonconforming, or intersex individuals.

SB No. 107 Sanctuary law admitting transgender kids from elsewhere to California to access hormones or puberty blockers. Also shields families from criminalization for seeking gender-affirming care.

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

CIF Guidelines For Gender Identity Participation state that "all students [can] participate in CIF activities in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity…”

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

California AB 1266 prohibits discrimination on the basis of “gender, gender identity, and gender expression.” Students have a right to “use facilities consistent with his or her gender identity…”

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

California Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000 “makes it a crime for a person…to…injure, intimidate, interfere with, oppress, or threaten any…person…because of…gender, or sexual orientation…”

ARIZONA

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

SB 1138 Prohibits irreversible gender reassignment surgery for minors.

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

AIA states that "all students [can] participate in CIF activities in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity…” SB 1165 Prohibits transgender athletes from competing on women’s and girls’ sports teams.

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

State law prevents transgender youth from using school facililties consistent with their gender identity

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

No state law protecting LGBTQ students from bullying or discrimination

NEW MEXICO

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

Currently no law ensuring gender affirming care for youth HB7 and SB13 seek to protect gender-affirming care, families and providers

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

State law prevents transgender students from participating consistent with their gender identity. “…students are required to compete in the gender listed on their original or amended birth certificate”

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

State law prevents transgender students from using School Facilities Consistent With Their Gender Identity

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

SB 288 Protects transgender youth in schools

TEXAS

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

State law bans all gender affirming care for youth and criminalizes parental support of gender affirming care for minors

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

HB25 Student-athletes can participate based solely on sex listed on their "official birth certificate," (defined as the document issued "at or near the time of the student's birth”) reversing the UIL’s previous acceptance of amended birth certificates.

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

State law prevents transgender students from using school facilities consistent with their gender identity

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

Anti-transgender state law prevents local school districts and local schools from passing LGBTQ nondiscrimination and/or anti-bullying policies.

LOUISIANA

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

HB575 (2021)/HB570 (2022): Criminalize the provision of some gender-affirming medical or surgical care to transgender adolescents. Prohibits school personnel to withhold from parents or legal guardians “information related to a minor’s gender or sex that is inconsistent with the minor’s sex.” Creates civil liability for providers and parents in violation. Prohibits the use of public funds for gender-affirming care to minors.

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

Prohibitive Louisiana High School Athletic Association policy mandating sex reassignment surgery prior to puberty or after puberty (with stringent conditions.) Senate Bill 44 bans transgender girls from K-12 interscholastic and intercollegiate athletic competition by prohibiting athletes who were assigned male at birth from competing in girl’s and women’s sports, even if their gender identity is female.

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

No state law permitting the use of school facilities based on student’s gender identity

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

No state law protecting LGBTQ students from bullying or discrimination

MISSISSIPPI

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

HB 1125 (2/28/23) bans transgender health care for minors. No providers in state offering gender reassignment surgery. Gov. Tate Reeves wants to keep it that way.

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

SB 2536 requires participation in public school sports to be based on biological sex and specifically bans transgender females from participating on female sports teams.

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

No state law allowing transgender students to use facilities based on gender identity

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

No state law protecting LGBTQ students from bullying or discrimination

ALABAMA

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

HB1 prohibits gender affirming care for minors. State ban makes it a felony crime to provide best practice medical care for transgender youth

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

HB391 prevents transgender students from participating in sports consisstent with their gender identity

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

Prevents transgender students from using school facilities consistent with their gender identity

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

No state law protecting LGBTQ students from bullying or discrimination

FLORIDA

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

Recent ban on gender affirming care for minors

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

SB 1028 specifies that an athletic team or sport that is designated for females, women, or girls may not be open to students of the male sex, based on the student’s biological sex listed on the student’s official birth certificate at the time of birth.Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

Bans the use of facilities by transgender youth that “match their gender”

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

No state law protecting LGBTQ students from bullying or discrimination

OKLAHOMA

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

SB129 bans gender-affirming healthcare for all people under the age of 26

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

Ban on participation of transgender youth in sports consistent with their gender identity

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

Prevents transgender students from using school facilities consistent with their gender identity

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

No state law protecting LGBTQ students from bullying or discrimination

SOUTH CAROLINA

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

Bans all gender-affirming care for people under the age of 21

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

Permits participation for students consistent with their gender identity

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

No law allowing transgender students to use facilities consistent with their gender identity

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

No state law protecting LGBTQ students from bullying or discrimination

TENNESSEE

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

SB 0001 bans gender affirming care and criminalizes parents and healthcare providers

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

Ban on transgender youth participation in girls’ sports. Harsh penalties for schools that allow it

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

Prevents transgender students from using school facilities consistent with their gender identity

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

No state law protecting LGBTQ students from bullying or discrimination

WEST VIRGINIA

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

No laws to ensure gender-affirming healthcare. Considerable barriers to seeking gender affirming healthcare. HB 2007 seeks to ban gender affirming health care for minors

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

Prohibits transgender participation

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

No law allowing transgender students to use facilities consistent with their gender identity

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

No state law protecting LGBTQ students from bullying or discrimination

ARKANSAS

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

Ban on gender-affirming healthcare. No doctors in state who provide gender affirming care. Federal appeals court said Arkansas cannot enforce its ban.

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

Ban on transgender participation - participation solely based on original birth certificate - does not accept amended birth certificates

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

No law allowing transgender students to use facilities consistent with their gender identity

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

Transgender youth included in anti-bullying laws but no nondiscrimination laws protecting them

GEORGIA

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

SB 140 “would restrict surgical treatment for gender dysphoria as well as hormone therapy for minors, but it would allow puberty blockers”

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

Ban on transgender participation - participation solely based on original birth certificate

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

No law allowing transgender students to use facilities consistent with their gender identity

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

No state law protecting LGBTQ students from bullying or discrimination

MISSOURI

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

Currently no ban however numerous bills seek to ban gender affirming healthcare and to criminalize providing it

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

MSHSAA allows transgender males using hormone therapy (testosterone) to participate on a men's team, and allows transgender women to play on men's teams for the first year of documented testosterone suppression, after which she would be eligible to play on a women's team.

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

No law allowing transgender students to use facilities consistent with their gender identity

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

No state law protecting LGBTQ students from bullying or discrimination

NORTH CAROLINA

Medical Care for Transgender Youth

HB 43 seeks to ban gender affirming care for minors

Transgender Youth Sports Participation

The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) allows students to participate according to their gender identity.

Transgender Youth Using School Facilities

No law allowing transgender students to use facilities consistent with their gender identity

Anti-Bullying and Discrimination

Law to protect students and school employees from bullying or harrassment based on gender identity