THE POLICY LANDSCAPE
Rights, restrictions & the places between.
Sources retrieved
Legal recognition · Legal sex definitions
Puerto Rico
No restriction reported
No territory-wide definition; Ley 26-2026 defines biological sex for public restrooms only
- Researched
- (Date of the primary-source research; not a legal effective date)
Sources
Policy sources
- SUTRA: P. de la C. 165, enacted as Ley 26-2026 (public restrooms), signed 2/25/2026(opens another site)
- Ley 26-2026 text (LexJuris, secondary locator)(opens another site)
- SUTRA: R. C. de la C. 185 (biological sex in all agency documents), in committee since 8/28/2025(opens another site)
- SUTRA: P. de la C. 166 (women's prisons), pending(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.