THE POLICY LANDSCAPE
Rights, restrictions & the places between.
Sources retrieved
Legal recognition · Legal sex definitions
South Carolina
No restriction reported
No statewide definition found; biological-sex definitions limited to school facilities
- Researched
- (Date of the primary-source research; not a legal effective date)
Sources
Policy sources
- FY2025-26 Appropriations Act (H.4025, Act 69) Part IB as ratified: proviso 1.114, school facilities only(opens another site)
- FY2026-27 Appropriations (H.5126) Part IB as ratified: proviso 1.108, school facilities only(opens another site)
- H.4756, Student Physical Privacy Act (Act 152 of 2026), definition limited to 'this article'(opens another site)
- H.3506 Human Biological Sexes, stalled in House Judiciary(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.