THE POLICY LANDSCAPE
Rights, restrictions & the places between.
Sources retrieved
Legal recognition · Legal sex definitions
Pennsylvania
No restriction reported
No statewide legal definition of sex found; bills to add one remain in committee
- Researched
- (Date of the primary-source research; not a legal effective date)
Sources
Policy sources
- SB 213 (2025) 'recognizing two sexes', in Senate State Government Committee since Feb. 4, 2025(opens another site)
- HB 1956 (2025), PHRA definitions, in House State Government Committee since Oct. 17, 2025(opens another site)
Researched from primary sources
Trans Data Initiative research. Researched from primary sources (enacted text, the code on official sites, executive orders, court orders), starting from the Trans Data Initiative legislation tracker's bills. Each determination was checked independently by a second researcher; disputes were settled by a third review. No other tracker's descriptions were used.
A record is what a source reported on the date it was captured, not a legal effective date. An unobserved record is not a finding that no restrictions exist.