{"anti":[{"type":"Adoption Ban","definition":"Prohibts LGBTQ+ people from adopting or fostering children and/or favors married cis het couples over others for adopting / fostering children"},{"type":"Anti-LGBTQ Resolution","definition":"Resolutions without legislative force that call for anti-LGBTQ actions, statements of support, or condemnation"},{"type":"Anti-LGBTQ Resolution: Athletics","definition":"Resolutions without legislative force that call for anti-LGBTQ actions, statements of support, or condemnation relating to athletics including sports bans"},{"type":"Anti-LGBTQ Resolution: Bathrooms","definition":"Resolutions without legislative force that call for anti-LGBTQ actions, statements of support, or condemnation relating to bathroom, changing room, or locker room bans"},{"type":"Anti-LGBTQ Resolution: Colleges","definition":"Resolutions without legislative force that call for anti-LGBTQ actions, statements of support, or condemnation affecting colleges and/or their students"},{"type":"Anti-LGBTQ Resolution: Healthcare","definition":"Resolutions without legislative force that call for anti-LGBTQ actions, statements of support, or condemnation relating to healthcare including gender affirming care"},{"type":"Anti-LGBTQ Resolution: K12","definition":"Resolutions without legislative force that call for anti-LGBTQ actions, statements of support, or condemnation affecting elementary and/or secondary schools"},{"type":"Anti-LGBTQ Resolution: Marriage","definition":"Resolutions without legislative force that call for anti-LGBTQ actions, statements of support, or condemnation relating to marriage including rejection of same-sex marriages"},{"type":"Anti-LGBTQ+ Holiday/Recognition","definition":"Calls for a day, week, month to recognize a person, event, or idea that is in opposition to LGBTQ+ people"},{"type":"Anti-LGBTQ+ Law Enforcement Bill","definition":"For anti-LGBTQ legislation directly relating to law enforcement"},{"type":"Appropriations","definition":"For bills relating to state or national appropriations bills, which include anti-LGBTQ+ riders"},{"type":"Birth Certificate or Identification Change Ban","definition":"Bans on changing the legal gender or name on birth certificates or other government forms of identification such as driver's licenses"},{"type":"Broad Discrimination","definition":"For laws that are discriminatory but do not fit into a specific category"},{"type":"Broad Discrimination: Local Ordinances","definition":"Blocks municipalities from extending civil rights protections to classes beyond those enumerated in state law"},{"type":"Censorship","definition":"Bills which restrict access to LGBTQ+ information, speech, and community"},{"type":"Censorship: Age Verification","definition":"Bills requiring entities impose age verification checks prior to granting access to LGBTQ+ related content"},{"type":"Censorship: Anti-Journalism","definition":"Bills that restrict journalistic coverage of LGBTQ+ people"},{"type":"Censorship: Book Ban","definition":"Bans on LGBTQ+ books"},{"type":"Censorship: Book Ban: Colleges","definition":"Bans on LGBTQ+ books in post-secondary settings such as colleges and universities"},{"type":"Censorship: Book Ban: K12","definition":"Bans on LGBTQ+ books in K12 settings"},{"type":"Censorship: Book Ban: Public Libraries","definition":"Bans on LGBTQ+ books in public libraries outside of a school setting."},{"type":"Censorship: Drag Ban","definition":"Bans on drag performances in any context, or for prohibitions on who can participate in drag shows"},{"type":"Censorship: Drag Ban: K12","definition":"Bans on drag performances specifically at K12 schools, such as for a story hour."},{"type":"Censorship: KOSA-Type Social Media Law","definition":"For restrictive social media laws that mirror KOSA"},{"type":"Censorship: Online Obscenity","definition":"Treating LGBTQ+ people's presence online as an obscenity that needs restriction"},{"type":"Censorship: Pride Flag Ban","definition":"Bans on displaying or using a pride flag, e.g. on military bases, embassies;"},{"type":"Censorship: Pride Flag Ban: Colleges","definition":"Bans on displaying or using a pride flag, at post-secondary institutions such as public colleges and universities"},{"type":"Censorship: Pride Flag Ban: K12","definition":"Bans on displaying or using a pride flag, at public and/or private elementary and/or secondary schools"},{"type":"Censorship: Pride Flag Ban: Public Properties","definition":"Bans on displaying or using a pride flag at locations that are under the supervision of government entities and open to the public (government buildings, parks, etc.)"},{"type":"Child Custody Bill","definition":"Bills that restrict child custody for LGBTQ+ folks or relates to parental acceptance (or lack thereof) of LGBTQ+ identity in custody cases"},{"type":"Child Custody Bill: DACPA","definition":"Bills which declare that parents, including prospective adoptive or foster parents, can not be legally held as neglectful or abusive if they misgender their trans or nonbinary child, prevent them from accessing gender affirming health care, don't support their social transitioning and/or otherwise raise or intend to raise them as if they were cisgender. Based on or resonant with the \"Defining Abu…"},{"type":"Civil Unions Ban","definition":"Bans legal recognition of unions between two people that aren't married which carry comparable legal priviliges to marriage"},{"type":"Conversion Therapy Legalization","definition":"Legalizes efforts to change a person's sexual orientation to heterosexual and/or one's gender identity to cisgender or reduces restrictions in place against such things"},{"type":"DEI Ban","definition":"Relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion bans or prohibitions that include restrictions on LGBTQ+ people or speech and actions about them. In general the bill text or relevant pre-existing law had to explicitly enumerate sexual orientation and/or gender identity, and/or related terms to be included here."},{"type":"DEI Ban: Accreditation","definition":"Ban on considering elements related to minoritized classes incuding systemic biases in the accreditation processes for academic institutions, primarily post-secondary institutions. Many of these based on Consumer Defense's \"Keep Accreditation About Academics\" (KAAA) model bill"},{"type":"DEI Ban: ADEIB","definition":"Bill containing significant portions of the Manhattan Institute's Model Bill Titled \"Abolish DEI Bureaucracies\" which orginally was a ban on public colleges and universities from creating an office of DEI and from hiring for the position related to coordinating DEI or for spending money related to such things. It also defined DEI through including terms casting trans people in particular in a neg…"},{"type":"DEI Ban: Colleges","definition":"Relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion bans or prohibitions that include restrictions on LGBTQ+ people or speech and actions about them in post-secondary settings"},{"type":"DEI Ban: CPC","definition":"Bill contains significant portions of the Manhattan Institute's model bill titled \"Curtail Political Coercion\" from January 2023 regarding not considering membership among various minoritized classes in college admissions decisions."},{"type":"DEI Ban: EMDT","definition":"Bill contains significant poritions of the Manhattan Institute's Model Bill titled \"End Mandatory Diversity Training\" which originally was a combination DEI, & systemic biases ban on such trainings of staff and students at colleges, along with casting trans people in particular in a negative light. From January 2023"},{"type":"DEI Ban: Employers","definition":"Ban on private employers for practices associated with or labeled by the bill as being part of \"diversity, equity, and inclusion\""},{"type":"DEI Ban: Government","definition":"Relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion bans or prohibitions that include restrictions on LGBTQ+ people or speech and actions about them in government run agencies beyond the context of public education"},{"type":"DEI Ban: K12","definition":"Relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion bans or prohibitions that include restrictions on LGBTQ+ people or speech and actions about them in K12 school and/or administrative settings"},{"type":"DEI Ban: Medical","definition":"Relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion bans or prohibitions that include restrictions on LGBTQ+ people or speech and actions about them in healthcare settings"},{"type":"Discrimination in Education","definition":"Bills that allow discrimination in educational contexts; Probhibited on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin by the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Title IV and on the basis of sex by the Education Amendments of 1972 including Title IX"},{"type":"Discrimination in Employment","definition":"Bills that allow discrimination in hiring, pay, union membership, benefits, advancement, and/or workplace treatment; Prohibited on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin by the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Title VII, on the basis of gender expression as a subset of sex via the Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins SCOTUS decision of 1989 and on the basis of sexual orientation or gender id…"},{"type":"Discrimination in Government Assisted Programs","definition":"Discrimination via various government programs or agencies not directly enumerated elsewhere (eg Education, Military,...)"},{"type":"Discrimination in Healthcare","definition":"Bills that allow discrimination against LGBTQ+ folks in healthcare"},{"type":"Discrimination in Housing","definition":"Bills which allow or require negatively differential treatment of LGBTQ+ people in situations involving the rent, purchance, occupancy, or financing of a home, based in part or in whole upon their sexual orientation and/or gender identity or expression."},{"type":"Discrimination in Insurance","definition":"Bills which allow or require negatively differential treatment of LGBTQ+ people by insurers based in part or in whole upon their sexual orientation and/or gender identity or expression."},{"type":"Discrimination in Private Accommodations","definition":"Private entities are explicitly allowed to deny access or otherwise discriminate against LGBTQ+ people as a whole or as subclasses such as by sexual orientation"},{"type":"Discrimination in Public Accommodations","definition":"Bills which allow or require negatively differential treatment of LGBTQ+ people in places of public accommodation - eg: businesses anyone could enter from the street such as restaurants, bars, movie theaters, retail markets, based on their sexual orientation or gender identity alone. This category is used if such discrimination is allowed or required beyond bathroom restrictions."},{"type":"Domestic Partner Discrimination","definition":"Bans treatment of domestic partners in a similar fashion as spouses in specified circumstances or permits them to not be treated as spouses in specified circumstances"},{"type":"Domestic Partnership Ban","definition":"Bans Domestic Partnerships or Civil Unions, beyond any ban on same-sex marriages"},{"type":"Don't Say AIDS","definition":"Bills which prevent or restrict discussion of and/or instruction related to HIV/AIDS"},{"type":"Don't Say AIDS: Elementary","definition":"Bills which prevent or restrict discussion of and/or instruction related to HIV/AIDS in elementary school settings from kindergarten through an upper grade limit anywhere from grade 3 to grade 8."},{"type":"Don't Say Gay","definition":"Bills that ban LGBTQ people from being talked about, e.g. in the context of schools, particularly as focused on sexual orientation"},{"type":"Don't Say Gay: Abstinence","definition":"Sex ed teaching abstinence excepting within marriage in states without marriage equality; as per Rosky, Cliford, Anti-Gay Curriculum Laws, Columbia Law Review 2016"},{"type":"Don't Say Gay: Anti-Homo","definition":"Require teachers to emphasize that homosexuality is unacceptable, describe it in association with disease or various socially negative behaviors, call attention to its place in the criminal code; as per Rosky, Cliford, Anti-Gay Curriculum Laws, Columbia Law Review 2016"},{"type":"Don't Say Gay: Colleges","definition":"Bills that ban LGBTQ people from being talked about as focused on sexual orientation; in some context in post-secondary education (eg: public colleges and universities)"},{"type":"Don't Say Gay: Elementary","definition":"Bills that ban LGB people from being talked about in kindergarten through an upper limit set somewhere between third and eighth grade"},{"type":"Don't Say Gay: Government","definition":"Bills that prevent government entities from talking about LGB people, usually in the context of anti-bias training"},{"type":"Don't Say Gay: K12","definition":"Bills that ban LGB people from being talked about in K12 schools"},{"type":"Don't Say Gay: No Promo Homo","definition":"Bans on \"promoting\" homosexuality, or indicating there's safe forms of gay sex, or indicating that homosexuality is a positive \"lifestyle\", as per Rosky, Cliford, Anti-Gay Curriculum Laws, Columbia Law Review 2016"},{"type":"Don't Say Gay: Promo Hetero","definition":"Bills or laws requiring educators to teach such things as respect and honor for monogomous heterosexual marriage or that monogamous heterosexual marriage is the best method of preventing STI (including HIV) transmission. as per Rosky, Cliford, Anti-Gay Curriculum Laws, Columbia Law Review 2016"},{"type":"Don't Say Systemic Biases","definition":"Bans instruction about systemic biases, often but not always under the guise of anti-discrimination, bans on mislabeled CRT, part of a ban on instruction or discussion of divisive concepts, bans on requiring affirmation of a group's superiority or inferiority, and/or bans on DEI"},{"type":"Don't Say Systemic Biases: Colleges","definition":"In post-secondary settings, bans instruction about systemic biases, often but not always under the guise of anti-discrimination, bans on mislabeled CRT, part of a ban on instruction or discussion of divisive concepts, bans on requiring affirmation of a group's superiority or inferiority, and/or bans on DEI"},{"type":"Don't Say Systemic Biases: Employers","definition":"Ban on private employers for practices that consider or suggest that there are systemic biases against one or another class of people. Sometimes labeled as DEI, sometimes as CRT, often involving a ban anti-bias training."},{"type":"Don't Say Systemic Biases: Government","definition":"Bills that prevent government entities from providing instruction about systemic biases, often but not always under the guise of anti-discrimination, bans on mislabeled CRT, part of a ban on instruction or discussion of divisive concepts, bans on requiring affirmation of a group's superiority or inferiority, and/or bans on DEI"},{"type":"Don't Say Systemic Biases: K12","definition":"In K12 settings, bans instruction about systemic biases, often but not always under the guise of anti-discrimination, bans on mislabeled CRT, part of a ban on instruction or discussion of divisive concepts, bans on requiring affirmation of a group's superiority or inferiority, and/or bans on DEI"},{"type":"Don't Say Trans","definition":"Bills that ban trans people from being talked about, e.g. in the context of schools"},{"type":"Don't Say Trans: Anti-Trans","definition":"Emphasize that transness is unacceptable, describe in pathologizing or tragic terms, or various socially negative behaviors, or emphasize that it's something harmful, to be protected from becoming or being around."},{"type":"Don't Say Trans: Colleges","definition":"Bills that ban trans people from being talked about in post-secondary schools including colleges and universities"},{"type":"Don't Say Trans: Elementary","definition":"Bills that ban trans people from being talked about in kindergarten through an upper limit set somewhere between third and eighth grade"},{"type":"Don't Say Trans: Government","definition":"Bills that prevent government entities from talking about trans people, usually in the context of anti-bias training"},{"type":"Don't Say Trans: K12","definition":"Bills that ban trans people from being talked about in K12 schools"},{"type":"Don't Say Trans: No Promo Trans","definition":"Bans on \"promoting\" transness (generally using weird negative terminology in the bill), or on indicating that being trans, or transitioning is a normal variation on the human condition no worse than being cis."},{"type":"Electoral Discrimination","definition":"Bills that require or allow for discrimination against potential political candidates on the basis of their gender identity or sexual orientation, such as those requiring the disclosure of a candidate's deadname having previously completed a legal name change"},{"type":"End Legal Recognition","definition":"Bills that explicitly do not recognize transgender people as 'real' in the eyes of the law"},{"type":"End Legal Recognition: DSA","definition":"Bills based heavily upon the Heritage Foundation's September 2023 \"Defining SEX Act\" model bill, which is in turn based on IWF & WoLF's \"Women's Bill of rights\". The Defining Sex Act focuses on propgating the binary, gamete production sex definition throughout code and does not provide for the segregation consequences or data colection that the WBR or SWWA do."},{"type":"End Legal Recognition: SWWA","definition":"Bills based heavily upon Independent Women's Voices model bill \"Stand with Women Act\" from December 2024, but with iterations of it appearing earlier as a development from the WBR & DSA. The SWWA also expanded the WBR's application to bathrooms, shelters, and sports."},{"type":"End Legal Recognition: WBR","definition":"Bills based heavily upon Independent Women's Forum & Women's Liberation Front's March 2022 model bill the so-called \"Women's Bill of Rights\", which sets for static binary sex definitions based in gamete production and lays that as a basis for segregation in bathrooms, sports, prisons, and shelters"},{"type":"Federal Override","definition":"Bills which assert state sovereignty over nondiscrimination guidelines, regulations, policies, or statutes at the Federal level"},{"type":"Forced Outing","definition":"For requirements which would directly or indirectly out LGBTQ+ minors to their parents whether it be by schools, health care providers, therapists, or otherwise"},{"type":"Forced Outing: Medical","definition":"For requirements put on healthcare providers to forcibly out LGBTQ children to their parents"},{"type":"Forced Outing: Mental Emotional Well-Being","definition":"For requirements put on schools, healthcare providers, or others to report on the mental or emotional well-being of children to their parents, which can be equivalent to a requirement to out LGBTQ children to their parents"},{"type":"Forced Outing: Schools","definition":"For requirements put on schools to forcibly out LGBTQ children to their parents, whether directly or by indirect requirements such as regarding GSA club membership or counseling referrals"},{"type":"Forced Outing: Schools: Trans","definition":"For requirements put on schools to forcibly out trans children specifically, to their parents"},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban","definition":"General bans on gender-affirming care in any capacity; Count also includes all subcategories"},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: All Ages","definition":"Gender affirming care ban for minors and all ages of adults that is not limited to sources of funding (Insurance, Medicaid, Public Funds) or legal status"},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: Detrans Coverage","definition":"Requires insurers who cover gender affirming medical care to also cover full reversal of such care by those wanting to detransition - which is intended to be cost or logistically prohibitive enough to drive them to drop trans health coverage."},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: Insurance Prohibition","definition":"Bans private insurance from covering gender affirming medical care"},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: JFA","definition":"Bills based heavily upon Do No Harm's \"Just FACTs Act model bill from January 2023."},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: Liability Law","definition":"For bills that authorize lawsuits which can make gender-affirming care impossible to provide"},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: Medicaid","definition":"Bans of Medicaid or of Medicare or of Tricare from providing gender affirming care"},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: Minors","definition":"Gender Affirming Care Ban that is targeted specifically at minors"},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: Prisoners","definition":"Blocks provision of hormonal and/or surgical gender affirming medical care for prisoners, despite 8th Amendment protections"},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: Public Funds","definition":"Restrictions on public funds being used to provide gender affirming care in capacities outside of Medicaid"},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: SAFE Act","definition":"Trans health care for minors bans based heavily on the February 2021 model bill the \"Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act\" developed by a group organized by Arkansas State Rep. R. Lundstrum, later fostered by Family Policy Alliance as the Help Not Harm Act 2.0 from late August 2021 and going forward"},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: Therapy or Counseling Ban","definition":"Ban on the provision of therapy or counseling that is supportive of gender identities beyond cisgender."},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: Under 21","definition":"Gender Affirming Care Ban that is targeted at those older than 17 and younger than 21 - typically an extension or accompanyment to a ban for minors"},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: Under 26","definition":"Gender Affirming Care Ban that is targeted at those older than 17 and younger than 26 - typically an extension or accompanyment to a ban for minors"},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care Ban: VCPA","definition":"Trans health care for minors bans based heavily on the August 2019 model bill the \"Vulnerable Child Protection Act\" developed by a group organized by SD State Rep. Fred Deutsch"},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care: Controlled Substance","definition":"Restricts Gender Affirming Care by making HRT and/or Puberty Blockers controlled substances"},{"type":"Gender Marker Change Ban","definition":"Forbids changing gender markers on government ID including birth certificates or from not aligning with gender markers on original birth certificates"},{"type":"Hate Group Classification","definition":"For bills that include pro-LGBTQ groups under a 'hate group' or 'criminal/gang' designation"},{"type":"Inclusive Language Ban","definition":"Ban on the use of gender neutral, gender affirming, or other intentionally inclusive language"},{"type":"LGBTQ \"Grooming\" Bill","definition":"Bill that equates LGBTQ+ people to groomers and has repercussions for folk who present minors with LGBTQ+ content"},{"type":"Misgendering","definition":"Bills permitting or requiring misgendering in verbal or written communication beyond government records like birth certificates, which is its own bill type"},{"type":"Misgendering: Forced","definition":"Bills that force people to misgender transgender people in a specific context, e.g. in schools"},{"type":"Misgendering: Permitted","definition":"Bills that allow people to misgender transgender people in a specific context without consequence, eg: to employment, academic standing, contract status, custody status"},{"type":"Misgendering: Pronoun Ban","definition":"Bans on using people's pronouns associated with gender identities not aligned with those assigned at birth, or ban on penalizing people for not using a person's pronouns"},{"type":"Misgendering: Pronoun Ban: Colleges","definition":"Bans on using people's pronouns associated with gender identities not aligned with those assigned at birth, or ban on penalizing people for not using a person's pronouns in post-secondary contexts"},{"type":"Misgendering: Pronoun Ban: K12","definition":"Bans on using people's pronouns associated with gender identities not aligned with those assigned at birth, or ban on penalizing people for not using a person's pronouns in K12 contexts"},{"type":"Opt-In LGBTQ Education","definition":"Bills that give opt-in provisions for if LGBTQ education is provided in schools"},{"type":"Opt-Out LGBTQ Education","definition":"Bills that give opt-out provisions for if LGBTQ education is provided in schools"},{"type":"Pathologization","definition":"Bills which write into law an interpretation of transness and/or a non-heterosexual sexual orientation as being a mental illness possibly subject to a cure"},{"type":"Prison Placement Ban","definition":"Bans on prison placements for the identified gender of inmates"},{"type":"Public Investment Restriction","definition":"Restrictions on use of government money or counters to such restrictions, based around some of that money going towards LGBTQ+ issues - often associated with gender affirming medical care"},{"type":"Public Investment Restriction: Anti-Boycotts","definition":"For restrictions on boycotting issues, especially LGBTQ+ issues"},{"type":"Public Investment Restriction: ESG Funds Ban","definition":"Bills that restrict public investment in ESG funds if there is evidence of motivation due to views on LGBTQ+ issues"},{"type":"Public Investment Restriction: Social Credit Score","definition":"For bills restricting financial services' abilities to decline potential clients on the basis of a \"social credit score\" relating to their behavior in a variety of ways, including espousing and putting into practice various forms of bigotry under the excuse that such would be curtailing their free exercise of religion or speach"},{"type":"Religious Exemptions","definition":"For laws that allow a religious or \"freedom of conscience\" exemption to discrimination clauses against LGBTQ+ people."},{"type":"Religious Exemptions: Academic","definition":"Students may have accommodations excusing them from requirements within a course or degree program; instructors may be excused from content delivery if their religion or conscience so dictates"},{"type":"Religious Exemptions: Adoption and Foster Care","definition":"For laws that allow a religious or \"freedom of conscience\" exemption to discrimination clauses against LGBTQ+ children, parents, or prospective parents as regards their gender identities or sexual orientations. These may include permission to exclude LGBTQ+ people as prospective parents or allowances to treat children as if they were cisgender and/or straight."},{"type":"Religious Exemptions: Marriage","definition":"For laws that allow a religious or \"freedom of conscience\" exemption to discrimination clauses against LGBTQ+ people related to marriage"},{"type":"Religious Exemptions: Medical","definition":"Health care professionals may, without penalty, refuse to participate in providing health care if their religion or conscience dictates"},{"type":"Religious Exemptions: MRFA","definition":"Bills allowing a religious or freedom of conscience exemption from government discrimination such as tax penalties, contract, grant, or program eligibility penalties, or professional licensure restrictions related due to a person's beliefs that heterosexual marriage is the only valid marriage and/or that sex should be or actions related to reserved to such marriages - or due to actions related to…"},{"type":"Religious Exemptions: PFCGDA","definition":"Bills based on the Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act also known as the Religious Liberty Accommodations Act; which require no pentalty for sincere belief in: heterosexual only marriage; no sex outside of marriage, and/or that being male or female doesn't change & is based on anatomy and genetics; Like MRFA with an anti-trans addition"},{"type":"Religious Exemptions: RFRA","definition":"Bills that mirror the language of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993"},{"type":"Religious Exemptions: Solemnization","definition":"Public officials, who normally would solemnize marriages or civil unions, may refuse to do so w/o penalty if their religion or conscience dictates"},{"type":"Religious Exemptions: Trans DNE","definition":"Bills that allow discrimination against trans folks based on the notion that a person can't actually be trans (eg: a person's sex must always be their assigned gender at birth is fixed as what is seen externally at the time) if one's religion or conscience says so."},{"type":"Repeal Pro-LGBTQ Laws","definition":"Removes existing protections for LGBTQ people from legal code."},{"type":"Repeal Pro-LGBTQ Laws: Marriage","definition":"Repeals existing law that provides for marriage equality"},{"type":"Same-Sex Marriage Ban","definition":"Makes it so the only legal marriages are between one man and one woman"},{"type":"Same-Sex Marriage Ban: Constitutional Amendment","definition":"Bills which either lead to a ballot referendum on a State Constitutional Amendment, or a direct Amendment through the legislature, to limit marriage to monogamous heterosexual couples."},{"type":"Same-Sex Marriage Ban: Foreign Marriages","definition":"Bans legal recognition of marriages performed outside of the enacting jurisdiction"},{"type":"Same-Sex Marriage Discrimination","definition":"Bills that nullify legal recognition of same-sex marriages, prevent them from being legalized (pre-Obergefell years), set up alternate forms of marriage that are exclusively heterosexual, or otherwise deny rights afforded to heterosexual married couples to those married couples who are not heterosexual."},{"type":"Social Transition Ban","definition":"Bills which prevent people from using a person's name or pronouns if they do not conform to expectations of the person's assigned gender at birth"},{"type":"Sports Ban","definition":"Bans on trans people participating in sports of their identified gender, or even from any sports at all; Inclusive of all subcatagories; Most, but not all focus on trans fem athletes. Most, but not all, focus on public schools."},{"type":"Sports Ban: Colleges","definition":"Restricts participation in gendered sports events to those of the gender assigned at birth for post secondary education including colleges, community colleges, and trade schools"},{"type":"Sports Ban: Elementary","definition":"Restricts participation in gendered sports events to those of the gender assigned at birth within grades K-4,5,6,7, or 8 but not Secondary Schools; The upper cuttoff is state dependent"},{"type":"Sports Ban: K12","definition":"Restricts participation in gendered sports events to those of the gender assigned at birth within grades K-12"},{"type":"Sports Ban: Non-Academic","definition":"Restricts participation in gendered sports events to those of the gender assigned at birth outside of academic settings"},{"type":"Sports Ban: Secondary","definition":"Restricts participation in gendered sports events to those of the gender assigned at birth within grades 5-12, 6-12, 7-12, 8-12, or 9-12 but not Elementary Schools; The lower cuttoff is state dependent"},{"type":"Sports Ban: SWSA","definition":"Sports participation restrictions based on Alliance Defending Freedom's model legislation from 2020, the \"Save Women's Sports Act\" (SWSW) aka. \"The Fairness in Women's Sports Act\"; Restricts participation in girls and women's sports to cisgender girls and cisgender women. A limited number of variations do the equivalent regarding men's and boy's sports."},{"type":"Trans Bathroom Ban","definition":"Bans trans people from using bathrooms of their identified gender; Count also includes subcategories"},{"type":"Trans Bathroom Ban: Colleges","definition":"Bans on trans people using multiple occupancy bathrooms or changing rooms on post-secondary school campuses not associated with their birth assigned gender"},{"type":"Trans Bathroom Ban: K12","definition":"For bills that ban trans people from using bathrooms and/or locker rooms of their identified gender within elementary and/or secondary schools"},{"type":"Trans Bathroom Ban: Public Accommodations","definition":"Bans trans people from using bathrooms of their identified gender in places of public accommodation - eg: businesses anyone could enter from the street such as restaurants, bars, movie theaters, retail markets"},{"type":"Trans Bathroom Ban: Public Properties","definition":"For bills that ban trans people from using bathrooms and/or locker rooms of their identified gender beyond the K12 or college setting, such as in all government buildings, specific government buildings, prisons, and/or public properties such as parks."},{"type":"Trans Child Abuse","definition":"For bills that equate transgender affirmation in childhood to child abuse"},{"type":"Trans Segregation Bill","definition":"For bills similar to trans bathroom bans in that they segregate based on trans-exclusionary definitions of sex or gender in areas like dorm rooms, changing rooms (beyond locker rooms) or overnight accommodations"},{"type":"Trans Segregation Bill: Shelters","definition":"Bills that segregate based on trans-exclusionary definitions of sex or gender in shelters for domestic violence survivors, the unhoused, or for other purposes; typically specified by Women's Bill of Rights influenced bills and their descendants"},{"type":"Trans Surveillance Bill","definition":"Bills that have provisions which surveil or keep track of trans people in the state, either anonymized with insufficient privacy protections or deanonymized"},{"type":"Trans Surveillance Bill: GAC Minors","definition":"Bills that have provisions which surveil or keep track of trans people, who are minors, through their gender affirming healthcare records, either anonymized with insufficient privacy protections or deanonymized"}],"pro":[{"type":"Abuse Survivors Protections","definition":"LGBTQ+ inclusive protections of and supports for survivors of abuse, including domestic violence, and sexual assault as well as LGBTQ+ inclusive abuse prevention measures"},{"type":"Adoption Nondiscrimination","definition":"Protections for LGBTQ+ adults looking to adopt or foster children"},{"type":"Algorithmic Nondiscrimination","definition":"Legislation intended to block/account for or otherwise address systemic biases in computational systems, be they automatic decision making processes or AI or what-have-you."},{"type":"Anti-Bullying","definition":"Addresses bullying directed at people due in part or in whole to their LGBTQ+ status, typically in the context of schools or of students online. Other bills and laws addressing bullying which do not enumerate LGBTQ classes directly are generally not included here. In general the bill text or relevant pre-existing law had to explicitly enumerate sexual orientation and/or gender identity to be incl…"},{"type":"Anti-Censorship","definition":"Bills which block efforts to restrict access to LGBTQ+ information, speech, and community"},{"type":"Anti-Censorship: Book Ban Ban","definition":"Protections from book bans"},{"type":"Anti-Censorship: Book Ban Ban: K12","definition":"Protections from book bans in K12 schools"},{"type":"Anti-Censorship: Book Ban Ban: Public Libraries","definition":"Protections from book bans in public libraries"},{"type":"Anti-Censorship: Library Protection","definition":"Protections from censorship in public libraries"},{"type":"Anti-Censorship: Pride Flag Ban Ban","definition":"Bills which block efforts to keep Pride flags from being displayed or flown on government properties such as schools and statehouses"},{"type":"Anti-Harassment","definition":"Addresses harassment directed at people due in part or in whole to their LGBTQ+ status. Other bills and laws addressing bullying which do not enumerate LGBTQ classes directly are generally not included here"},{"type":"Appropriations","definition":"For bills relating to state or national appropriations bills, which include pro-LGBTQ+ riders"},{"type":"Birth Certificate Or Identification","definition":"Allowing transgender people to change their birth certificates and/or other forms of identification"},{"type":"Broad Nondiscrimination","definition":"For all nondiscrimination bills that don't fit into a specific categeory"},{"type":"Broad Nondiscrimination: Local Ordinances","definition":"Allows Local municipalities to enact civil rights protections beyond that which the state covers, such as for additional classes like sexual orientation or gender identity and expression"},{"type":"Child Custody Protections","definition":"Relating to protections for LGBTQ+ minors, parents, and/or guardians in child custody disputes"},{"type":"Civil Unions","definition":"Estabishes a status with comparable rights to marriage to varying degrees - or providing individual legal protections to same-sex partners"},{"type":"Commissions, Task Forces, and Studies","definition":"For any commissions, task forces, and studies focusing on the needs of LGBTQ+ people"},{"type":"Conversion Therapy Ban","definition":"Bans conversion therapy of any type"},{"type":"Credit Nondiscrimination","definition":"Protects against discrimination in credit making descisions from such entities as banks, credit unions, finance companies, and retailers. Protected at the Federal level on the bases of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, or age since the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) of 1974; Mortgage lender antidiscrimination protections classified under Housing Nondiscrimination i…"},{"type":"Diaper Changing Station Bill","definition":"Bills that permit diaper-changing stations in bathrooms they weren't previously in"},{"type":"Domestic Partner Nondiscrimination","definition":"Rights and benefits, as as specific set in specific contexts are provided to domestic partners as they are for married spouses - but not across all circumstances"},{"type":"Easy Name And Gender Changes","definition":"Bills that allow for easy name and gender changes in contexts not otherwise listed"},{"type":"Education Nondiscrimination","definition":"Protected re: segregation on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title IV and on the basis of sex by the Education Amendments of 1972 including Title IX"},{"type":"Employment Nondiscrimination","definition":"Nondiscrimination in hiring, pay, union membership, benefits, advancement, workplace treatment; Protected on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin by the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Title VII, on the basis of gender expression as a subset of sex via the Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins SCOTUS decision of 1989 and on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity as subsets of s…"},{"type":"End Trans Panic Defense","definition":"Bills that end trans panic defenses and/or gay panic defenses from being permitted at trial"},{"type":"Financial Assistance To Refugees","definition":"Financial Assistance given to refugees either explicitly highlighting their LGBTQ+ status or explicitly noting LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination protections connected to such assistance"},{"type":"Foster Children Protections","definition":"Gender affirming and/or sexual orientation supportive protections for foster children"},{"type":"Gender Affirming Care","definition":"Explicit protections for the provision of gender affirming medical care"},{"type":"Government Funding Nondiscrimination","definition":"Bills with protections regarding government funding such as through grants from discrimination against LGBTQ+ people"},{"type":"Government Services Nondiscrimination","definition":"Protections from discrimination through various government agencies not enumerated separately (eg: Education)"},{"type":"Hate Crime Classification","definition":"For classification of specific crimes as hate crimes; Protected at the Federal level on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin by the Civil Rights Act of 1968: Title I, and actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability by the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009"},{"type":"Healthcare Nondiscrimination","definition":"For general nondiscrimination policies in healthcare"},{"type":"HIV and STI Care","definition":"For bills relating to STI care, prevention, and/or education, especially regarding HIV"},{"type":"Holiday/Recognition","definition":"Positive LGBTQ+ holidays and/or state-based recognition of LGBTQ+ folks. Includes Pride Month declarations, Days of Rememberance, Days of Visibility, Days honoring specific people for their pro-LGBTQ+ actions, etc."},{"type":"Housing Nondiscrimination","definition":"Access to purchasing, renting, financing housing. Protected on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin by Titles VIII-IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 aka. Fair Housing Act, on the basis of sex via the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and on the basis of disability and families with children via the Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHAA) of 1988"},{"type":"Implicit Bias Training","definition":"Bills that offer bias trainings to people in specific contexts"},{"type":"Inclusive Bathrooms","definition":"For bathrooms that are inclusive of transgender folk, e.g. allowing trans folk to use bathrooms of their identified gender or putting in place gender neutral bathrooms"},{"type":"Inclusive Language","definition":"Bills that don't fit into any other category but have inclusive language"},{"type":"Insurance Nondiscrimination","definition":"Bills relating to insurance related nondiscrimination policies for trans folk"},{"type":"Intersex Protection","definition":"General protections for intersex people that go beyond surgical bans on infants / young children"},{"type":"Invasive Intersex Surgery Ban","definition":"Bans surgeries to alter any portion of the reproductive system of intersex children too young to consent for themselves, to conform to more binary appearing configurations, for cases where such alterations are not medically necessary."},{"type":"Judicial Nondiscrimination","definition":"LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination requirements for officers of the court and judicial procedings"},{"type":"Jury Nondiscrimination","definition":"Protections relating to the jury selection process or other process anti-discriminations associated with jury trials other than panic defense protections"},{"type":"Law Enforcement Nondiscrimination","definition":"Includes restrictions against biased based policing, profiling based on stereotypes, etc."},{"type":"LGBTQ+ Education","definition":"Bills that allow or require education on LGBTQ+ people and issues in schools or other contexts"},{"type":"LGBTQ+ Elder Rights","definition":"General protections for LGBTQ+ elders"},{"type":"LGBTQ+ Health Care","definition":"For legislation that allows or supports LGBTQ+ Health Care and that doesn't fit into any listed context"},{"type":"LGBTQ+ Inclusive Curriculum","definition":"Bills requiring consideration of and protections for LGBTQ+ students in the context of particular subjects or topics within schools"},{"type":"LGBTQ+ Inclusive Menstrual Rights","definition":"Includes requirements for stocking bathrooms with menstrual hygiene supplies with access for more than cisgender women and cisgender girls"},{"type":"LGBTQ+ Youth Services","definition":"Programs directly aimed at helping LGBTQ+ minors and other LGBTQ+ young people"},{"type":"Marriage Equality","definition":"For Bills that provide for full legal marriage under that name, or extend marriage benefits to same-sex couples who are legally married in some juridictions or revise language in statute to accommodate marriages which aren't heterosexual."},{"type":"Military Nondiscrimination","definition":"Protects LGBTQ+ people from discrimination in hiring, retention, and treatment by the Armed Forces, and/or restores or partially restores benefits and/or status lost when discharged due to LGBTQ+ status; Protected on the basis of sexual orientation by the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 (U.S. H.R. 2965)"},{"type":"Nondiscrimination in Government Assisted Programs","definition":"Protected on a Federal basis re: on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin by the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Title VI; with disibility added as a protected class in Sec. 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (U.S. 1973 HR 8070)"},{"type":"Patient And Provider Protections","definition":"Bills that offer protections to both patients and providers of gender-affirming care"},{"type":"Prisoner Nondiscrimination","definition":"Bills that prohibit LGBTQ+ discrimination in prisons; Protected on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin in the 1964 Civil Rights Act: Title III re: Public Facilities"},{"type":"Privacy","definition":"Bills which support an individual's control about what information is shared about them and to whom."},{"type":"Privacy: Anti-Doxxing","definition":"Bills protecting LGBTQ+ people from doxxing;"},{"type":"Privacy: Data Protection","definition":"Bills that protect the privacy LGBTQ+ folk regarding personal data such as LGBTQ+ status, health records, etc. May rename \"Data Privacy\""},{"type":"Privacy: Medical","definition":"Bills protecting against the unwanted sharing of medical data of LGBTQ+ people including trans healthcare"},{"type":"Private Accommodations Nondiscrimination","definition":"Private entities prohibited from discriminating against various classes including sexual orientation and/or gender identity for access and/or membership; Excluded for race, color, religion, or national origin in the 1964 Civil Rights Act: Title II"},{"type":"Provider Protections","definition":"Protections for providers of gender affirming care"},{"type":"Public Accommodations Nondiscrimination","definition":"Protections for access to and services from private entities which are open to the public, such as businesses; Protected on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin by the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Title II"},{"type":"Public Facilities Nondiscrimination","definition":"Protection from discrimination in entities operated by the government other than schools; Protected for race, color, religion, or national origin under the 1964 Civil Rights Act: Title III"},{"type":"Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws","definition":"Bills that repeal pre-existing anti-LGBTQ laws"},{"type":"Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws: Adoption Ban","definition":"Repeals laws that stop or discourage all or a subset of LGBTQ+ people from adopting or fostering children"},{"type":"Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws: Anti-Sodomy","definition":"Bills that repeal pre-existing anti-sodomy laws, including those still on the books after the Lawrence v. Texas SCOTUS decision from 2003"},{"type":"Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws: Athletics","definition":"Repeals statutory trans sports bans"},{"type":"Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws: GAC Ban","definition":"Repeals one or more class of restrictions on gender affirming medical care"},{"type":"Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws: Marriage Ban","definition":"Repeals any form of same-sex marriage ban"},{"type":"Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws: Pathologization","definition":"Repeals laws which define transness or being a member of any other class within the LGBTQ+ umbrella as a mental illness"},{"type":"Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws: Walking While Trans","definition":"Repeals laws which allow LGBTQ+ people to be treated as likely criminals, particularly illegal sex workers, just for outwardly appearing LGBTQ+ in public spaces."},{"type":"Safe State Bill","definition":"Bills that officially mandate a state as safe for LGBTQ+ people; Inclusive of \"Shield\" laws"},{"type":"Suicide Prevention","definition":"For legislation that works to prevent suicide in LGBTQ+ populations"},{"type":"Supporting LGBTQ+ Owned Businesses","definition":"Bills that specifically support LGBTQ+ owned businesses"},{"type":"Supporting Unhoused LGBTQ+ People","definition":"Bills that provide funding, shelter, or other assistance specifically to LGBTQ+ people in general who are unhoused or one of their subsets."},{"type":"Supportive Resolution","definition":"For generally supportive legislation that doesn't fit into any other category"},{"type":"Supportive Resolution: Nondiscrimination","definition":"Nonbinding resolutions calling for one or more forms of anti-discrimination re: LGBTQ+ people"},{"type":"Voter Nondiscrimination","definition":"For bills that prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ+ folks in the context of voting: Protected on the basis of sex by the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Protected on the basis of race, color, or language minority status by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and subsequent revisions"}]}