Bill type definitions

How the team defines each type of bill it tracks. A type has a macro, the part before the colon (“Sports Ban”), and may have subtypes after it (“Sports Ban: Colleges”). A subtype with no wording of its own is read by its macro's definition. The bill counts are public bills, each counted once: a macro's count is the bills with the macro or any of its subtypes, so it can be smaller than its subtypes' counts added together.

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Anti-LGBTQ+ bill types

Adoption Ban 17 bills

Prohibts LGBTQ+ people from adopting or fostering children and/or favors married cis het couples over others for adopting / fostering children

Anti-LGBTQ Resolution 95 bills

Resolutions without legislative force that call for anti-LGBTQ actions, statements of support, or condemnation

Anti-LGBTQ Resolution: Athletics 20 bills
Resolutions without legislative force that call for anti-LGBTQ actions, statements of support, or condemnation relating to athletics including sports bans
Anti-LGBTQ Resolution: Bathrooms 3 bills
Resolutions without legislative force that call for anti-LGBTQ actions, statements of support, or condemnation relating to bathroom, changing room, or locker room bans
Anti-LGBTQ Resolution: Colleges 8 bills
Resolutions without legislative force that call for anti-LGBTQ actions, statements of support, or condemnation affecting colleges and/or their students
Anti-LGBTQ Resolution: Healthcare 8 bills
Resolutions without legislative force that call for anti-LGBTQ actions, statements of support, or condemnation relating to healthcare including gender affirming care
Anti-LGBTQ Resolution: K12 11 bills
Resolutions without legislative force that call for anti-LGBTQ actions, statements of support, or condemnation affecting elementary and/or secondary schools
Anti-LGBTQ Resolution: Marriage 44 bills
Resolutions without legislative force that call for anti-LGBTQ actions, statements of support, or condemnation relating to marriage including rejection of same-sex marriages

Anti-LGBTQ+ Holiday/Recognition 20 bills

Calls for a day, week, month to recognize a person, event, or idea that is in opposition to LGBTQ+ people

Anti-LGBTQ+ Law Enforcement Bill 1 bill

For anti-LGBTQ legislation directly relating to law enforcement

Appropriations 103 bills

For bills relating to state or national appropriations bills, which include anti-LGBTQ+ riders

Birth Certificate or Identification Change Ban 99 bills

Bans on changing the legal gender or name on birth certificates or other government forms of identification such as driver's licenses

Broad Discrimination 75 bills

For laws that are discriminatory but do not fit into a specific category

Broad Discrimination: Local Ordinances 23 bills
Blocks municipalities from extending civil rights protections to classes beyond those enumerated in state law

Censorship 479 bills

Bills which restrict access to LGBTQ+ information, speech, and community

Censorship: Age Verification 57 bills
Bills requiring entities impose age verification checks prior to granting access to LGBTQ+ related content
Censorship: Anti-Journalism 1 bill
Bills that restrict journalistic coverage of LGBTQ+ people
Censorship: Book Ban 101 bills
Bans on LGBTQ+ books
Censorship: Book Ban: Colleges 1 bill
Bans on LGBTQ+ books in post-secondary settings such as colleges and universities
Censorship: Book Ban: K12 29 bills
Bans on LGBTQ+ books in K12 settings
Censorship: Book Ban: Public Libraries 7 bills
Bans on LGBTQ+ books in public libraries outside of a school setting.
Censorship: Drag Ban 135 bills
Bans on drag performances in any context, or for prohibitions on who can participate in drag shows
Censorship: Drag Ban: K12 1 bill
Bans on drag performances specifically at K12 schools, such as for a story hour.
Censorship: KOSA-Type Social Media Law 12 bills
For restrictive social media laws that mirror KOSA
Censorship: Online Obscenity 127 bills
Treating LGBTQ+ people's presence online as an obscenity that needs restriction
Censorship: Pride Flag Ban 54 bills
Bans on displaying or using a pride flag, e.g. on military bases, embassies;
Censorship: Pride Flag Ban: Colleges 4 bills
Bans on displaying or using a pride flag, at post-secondary institutions such as public colleges and universities
Censorship: Pride Flag Ban: K12 14 bills
Bans on displaying or using a pride flag, at public and/or private elementary and/or secondary schools
Censorship: Pride Flag Ban: Public Properties 23 bills
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.)

Child Custody Bill 99 bills

Bills that restrict child custody for LGBTQ+ folks or relates to parental acceptance (or lack thereof) of LGBTQ+ identity in custody cases

Child Custody Bill: DACPA 34 bills
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…

Civil Unions Ban 28 bills

Bans legal recognition of unions between two people that aren't married which carry comparable legal priviliges to marriage

Conversion Therapy Legalization 35 bills

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

DEI Ban 233 bills

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.

DEI Ban: Accreditation 7 bills
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
DEI Ban: ADEIB 44 bills
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…
DEI Ban: Colleges 128 bills
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
DEI Ban: CPC 17 bills
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.
DEI Ban: EMDT 29 bills
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
DEI Ban: Employers 2 bills
Ban on private employers for practices associated with or labeled by the bill as being part of "diversity, equity, and inclusion"
DEI Ban: Government 87 bills
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
DEI Ban: K12 62 bills
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
DEI Ban: Medical 9 bills
Relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion bans or prohibitions that include restrictions on LGBTQ+ people or speech and actions about them in healthcare settings

Discrimination in Education 91 bills

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

Discrimination in Employment 16 bills

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…

Discrimination in Government Assisted Programs 3 bills

Discrimination via various government programs or agencies not directly enumerated elsewhere (eg Education, Military,...)

Discrimination in Healthcare 58 bills

Bills that allow discrimination against LGBTQ+ folks in healthcare

Discrimination in Housing 7 bills

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.

Discrimination in Insurance 2 bills

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.

Discrimination in Private Accommodations 1 bill

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

Discrimination in Public Accommodations 5 bills

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.

Domestic Partner Discrimination 3 bills

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

Domestic Partnership Ban

Bans Domestic Partnerships or Civil Unions, beyond any ban on same-sex marriages

Don't Say AIDS 4 bills

Bills which prevent or restrict discussion of and/or instruction related to HIV/AIDS

Don't Say AIDS: Elementary 1 bill
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.

Don't Say Gay 199 bills

Bills that ban LGBTQ people from being talked about, e.g. in the context of schools, particularly as focused on sexual orientation

Don't Say Gay: Abstinence
Sex ed teaching abstinence excepting within marriage in states without marriage equality; as per Rosky, Cliford, Anti-Gay Curriculum Laws, Columbia Law Review 2016
Don't Say Gay: Anti-Homo 5 bills
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
Don't Say Gay: Colleges 8 bills
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)
Don't Say Gay: Elementary 55 bills
Bills that ban LGB people from being talked about in kindergarten through an upper limit set somewhere between third and eighth grade
Don't Say Gay: Government 5 bills
Bills that prevent government entities from talking about LGB people, usually in the context of anti-bias training
Don't Say Gay: K12 121 bills
Bills that ban LGB people from being talked about in K12 schools
Don't Say Gay: No Promo Homo 4 bills
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
Don't Say Gay: Promo Hetero 1 bill
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

Don't Say Systemic Biases 174 bills

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

Don't Say Systemic Biases: Colleges 85 bills
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
Don't Say Systemic Biases: Employers 1 bill
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.
Don't Say Systemic Biases: Government 49 bills
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
Don't Say Systemic Biases: K12 76 bills
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

Don't Say Trans 264 bills

Bills that ban trans people from being talked about, e.g. in the context of schools

Don't Say Trans: Anti-Trans 3 bills
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.
Don't Say Trans: Colleges 28 bills
Bills that ban trans people from being talked about in post-secondary schools including colleges and universities
Don't Say Trans: Elementary 62 bills
Bills that ban trans people from being talked about in kindergarten through an upper limit set somewhere between third and eighth grade
Don't Say Trans: Government 17 bills
Bills that prevent government entities from talking about trans people, usually in the context of anti-bias training
Don't Say Trans: K12 153 bills
Bills that ban trans people from being talked about in K12 schools
Don't Say Trans: No Promo Trans 6 bills
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.

Electoral Discrimination 1 bill

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

Federal Override 13 bills

Bills which assert state sovereignty over nondiscrimination guidelines, regulations, policies, or statutes at the Federal level

Forced Outing 314 bills

For requirements which would directly or indirectly out LGBTQ+ minors to their parents whether it be by schools, health care providers, therapists, or otherwise

Forced Outing: Medical 18 bills
For requirements put on healthcare providers to forcibly out LGBTQ children to their parents
Forced Outing: Mental Emotional Well-Being 71 bills
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
Forced Outing: Schools 266 bills
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
Forced Outing: Schools: Trans 12 bills
For requirements put on schools to forcibly out trans children specifically, to their parents

Gender Affirming Care 99 bills

No definition is written for the macro itself; its subtypes are below.

Gender Affirming Care: Controlled Substance
Restricts Gender Affirming Care by making HRT and/or Puberty Blockers controlled substances

Gender Affirming Care Ban 663 bills

General bans on gender-affirming care in any capacity; Count also includes all subcategories

Gender Affirming Care Ban: All Ages 3 bills
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
Gender Affirming Care Ban: Detrans Coverage 11 bills
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.
Gender Affirming Care Ban: Insurance Prohibition 17 bills
Bans private insurance from covering gender affirming medical care
Gender Affirming Care Ban: JFA 4 bills
Bills based heavily upon Do No Harm's "Just FACTs Act model bill from January 2023.
Gender Affirming Care Ban: Liability Law 92 bills
For bills that authorize lawsuits which can make gender-affirming care impossible to provide
Gender Affirming Care Ban: Medicaid 76 bills
Bans of Medicaid or of Medicare or of Tricare from providing gender affirming care
Gender Affirming Care Ban: Minors 472 bills
Gender Affirming Care Ban that is targeted specifically at minors
Gender Affirming Care Ban: Prisoners 29 bills
Blocks provision of hormonal and/or surgical gender affirming medical care for prisoners, despite 8th Amendment protections
Gender Affirming Care Ban: Public Funds 117 bills
Restrictions on public funds being used to provide gender affirming care in capacities outside of Medicaid
Gender Affirming Care Ban: SAFE Act 48 bills
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
Gender Affirming Care Ban: Therapy or Counseling Ban 4 bills
Ban on the provision of therapy or counseling that is supportive of gender identities beyond cisgender.
Gender Affirming Care Ban: Under 21 24 bills
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
Gender Affirming Care Ban: Under 26 3 bills
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
Gender Affirming Care Ban: VCPA 83 bills
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

Gender Marker Change Ban 48 bills

Forbids changing gender markers on government ID including birth certificates or from not aligning with gender markers on original birth certificates

Hate Group Classification 2 bills

For bills that include pro-LGBTQ groups under a 'hate group' or 'criminal/gang' designation

Inclusive Language Ban 1 bill

Ban on the use of gender neutral, gender affirming, or other intentionally inclusive language

LGBTQ "Grooming" Bill 16 bills

Bill that equates LGBTQ+ people to groomers and has repercussions for folk who present minors with LGBTQ+ content

Misgendering 189 bills

Bills permitting or requiring misgendering in verbal or written communication beyond government records like birth certificates, which is its own bill type

Misgendering: Forced 48 bills
Bills that force people to misgender transgender people in a specific context, e.g. in schools
Misgendering: Permitted 41 bills
Bills that allow people to misgender transgender people in a specific context without consequence, eg: to employment, academic standing, contract status, custody status
Misgendering: Pronoun Ban 99 bills
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
Misgendering: Pronoun Ban: Colleges 9 bills
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
Misgendering: Pronoun Ban: K12 63 bills
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

Opt-In LGBTQ Education 64 bills

Bills that give opt-in provisions for if LGBTQ education is provided in schools

Opt-Out LGBTQ Education 70 bills

Bills that give opt-out provisions for if LGBTQ education is provided in schools

Pathologization 28 bills

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

Prison Placement Ban 97 bills

Bans on prison placements for the identified gender of inmates

Public Investment Restriction 75 bills

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

Public Investment Restriction: Anti-Boycotts 22 bills
For restrictions on boycotting issues, especially LGBTQ+ issues
Public Investment Restriction: ESG Funds Ban 27 bills
Bills that restrict public investment in ESG funds if there is evidence of motivation due to views on LGBTQ+ issues
Public Investment Restriction: Social Credit Score 33 bills
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

Religious Exemptions 442 bills

For laws that allow a religious or "freedom of conscience" exemption to discrimination clauses against LGBTQ+ people.

Religious Exemptions: Academic 45 bills
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
Religious Exemptions: Adoption and Foster Care 58 bills
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.
Religious Exemptions: Marriage 116 bills
For laws that allow a religious or "freedom of conscience" exemption to discrimination clauses against LGBTQ+ people related to marriage
Religious Exemptions: Medical 130 bills
Health care professionals may, without penalty, refuse to participate in providing health care if their religion or conscience dictates
Religious Exemptions: MRFA 63 bills
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…
Religious Exemptions: PFCGDA 28 bills
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
Religious Exemptions: RFRA 47 bills
Bills that mirror the language of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993
Religious Exemptions: Solemnization 35 bills
Public officials, who normally would solemnize marriages or civil unions, may refuse to do so w/o penalty if their religion or conscience dictates
Religious Exemptions: Trans DNE 33 bills
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.

Repeal Pro-LGBTQ Laws 36 bills

Removes existing protections for LGBTQ people from legal code.

Repeal Pro-LGBTQ Laws: Marriage 3 bills
Repeals existing law that provides for marriage equality

Same-Sex Marriage Ban 282 bills

Makes it so the only legal marriages are between one man and one woman

Same-Sex Marriage Ban: Constitutional Amendment 148 bills
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.
Same-Sex Marriage Ban: Foreign Marriages 16 bills
Bans legal recognition of marriages performed outside of the enacting jurisdiction

Same-Sex Marriage Discrimination 77 bills

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.

Social Transition Ban 44 bills

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

Sports Ban 517 bills

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.

Sports Ban: Colleges 287 bills
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
Sports Ban: Elementary 1 bill
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
Sports Ban: K12 378 bills
Restricts participation in gendered sports events to those of the gender assigned at birth within grades K-12
Sports Ban: Non-Academic 19 bills
Restricts participation in gendered sports events to those of the gender assigned at birth outside of academic settings
Sports Ban: Secondary 66 bills
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
Sports Ban: SWSA 222 bills
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.

Trans Bathroom Ban 376 bills

Bans trans people from using bathrooms of their identified gender; Count also includes subcategories

Trans Bathroom Ban: Colleges 93 bills
Bans on trans people using multiple occupancy bathrooms or changing rooms on post-secondary school campuses not associated with their birth assigned gender
Trans Bathroom Ban: K12 235 bills
For bills that ban trans people from using bathrooms and/or locker rooms of their identified gender within elementary and/or secondary schools
Trans Bathroom Ban: Public Accommodations 65 bills
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
Trans Bathroom Ban: Public Properties 88 bills
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.

Trans Child Abuse 46 bills

For bills that equate transgender affirmation in childhood to child abuse

Trans Segregation Bill 66 bills

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

Trans Segregation Bill: Shelters 27 bills
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

Trans Surveillance Bill 7 bills

Bills that have provisions which surveil or keep track of trans people in the state, either anonymized with insufficient privacy protections or deanonymized

Trans Surveillance Bill: GAC Minors 1 bill
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-LGBTQ+ bill types

Abuse Survivors Protections 11 bills

LGBTQ+ inclusive protections of and supports for survivors of abuse, including domestic violence, and sexual assault as well as LGBTQ+ inclusive abuse prevention measures

Adoption Nondiscrimination 14 bills

Protections for LGBTQ+ adults looking to adopt or foster children

Algorithmic Nondiscrimination 19 bills

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.

Anti-Bullying 113 bills

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…

Anti-Censorship 47 bills

Bills which block efforts to restrict access to LGBTQ+ information, speech, and community

Anti-Censorship: Book Ban Ban 28 bills
Protections from book bans
Anti-Censorship: Book Ban Ban: K12 1 bill
Protections from book bans in K12 schools
Anti-Censorship: Book Ban Ban: Public Libraries 2 bills
Protections from book bans in public libraries
Anti-Censorship: Library Protection 30 bills
Protections from censorship in public libraries
Anti-Censorship: Pride Flag Ban Ban 3 bills
Bills which block efforts to keep Pride flags from being displayed or flown on government properties such as schools and statehouses

Anti-Harassment 39 bills

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

Appropriations 103 bills

For bills relating to state or national appropriations bills, which include pro-LGBTQ+ riders

Birth Certificate Or Identification 154 bills

Allowing transgender people to change their birth certificates and/or other forms of identification

Broad Nondiscrimination 313 bills

For all nondiscrimination bills that don't fit into a specific categeory

Broad Nondiscrimination: Local Ordinances 4 bills
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

Child Custody Protections 27 bills

Relating to protections for LGBTQ+ minors, parents, and/or guardians in child custody disputes

Civil Unions 58 bills

Estabishes a status with comparable rights to marriage to varying degrees - or providing individual legal protections to same-sex partners

Commissions, Task Forces, and Studies 210 bills

For any commissions, task forces, and studies focusing on the needs of LGBTQ+ people

Conversion Therapy Ban 141 bills

Bans conversion therapy of any type

Credit Nondiscrimination 133 bills

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…

Diaper Changing Station Bill 17 bills

Bills that permit diaper-changing stations in bathrooms they weren't previously in

Domestic Partner Nondiscrimination 160 bills

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

Easy Name And Gender Changes 54 bills

Bills that allow for easy name and gender changes in contexts not otherwise listed

Education Nondiscrimination 334 bills

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

Employment Nondiscrimination 596 bills

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…

End Trans Panic Defense 100 bills

Bills that end trans panic defenses and/or gay panic defenses from being permitted at trial

Financial Assistance To Refugees 3 bills

Financial Assistance given to refugees either explicitly highlighting their LGBTQ+ status or explicitly noting LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination protections connected to such assistance

Foster Children Protections 41 bills

Gender affirming and/or sexual orientation supportive protections for foster children

Gender Affirming Care 99 bills

Explicit protections for the provision of gender affirming medical care

Government Funding Nondiscrimination 10 bills

Bills with protections regarding government funding such as through grants from discrimination against LGBTQ+ people

Government Services Nondiscrimination 11 bills

Protections from discrimination through various government agencies not enumerated separately (eg: Education)

Hate Crime Classification 232 bills

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

Healthcare Nondiscrimination 224 bills

For general nondiscrimination policies in healthcare

HIV and STI Care 53 bills

For bills relating to STI care, prevention, and/or education, especially regarding HIV

Holiday/Recognition 216 bills

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.

Housing Nondiscrimination 498 bills

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

Implicit Bias Training 76 bills

Bills that offer bias trainings to people in specific contexts

Inclusive Bathrooms 55 bills

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

Inclusive Language 41 bills

Bills that don't fit into any other category but have inclusive language

Insurance Nondiscrimination 178 bills

Bills relating to insurance related nondiscrimination policies for trans folk

Intersex Protection 13 bills

General protections for intersex people that go beyond surgical bans on infants / young children

Invasive Intersex Surgery Ban 5 bills

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.

Judicial Nondiscrimination 5 bills

LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination requirements for officers of the court and judicial procedings

Jury Nondiscrimination 26 bills

Protections relating to the jury selection process or other process anti-discriminations associated with jury trials other than panic defense protections

Law Enforcement Nondiscrimination 9 bills

Includes restrictions against biased based policing, profiling based on stereotypes, etc.

LGBTQ+ Education 80 bills

Bills that allow or require education on LGBTQ+ people and issues in schools or other contexts

LGBTQ+ Elder Rights 43 bills

General protections for LGBTQ+ elders

LGBTQ+ Health Care 53 bills

For legislation that allows or supports LGBTQ+ Health Care and that doesn't fit into any listed context

LGBTQ+ Inclusive Curriculum 29 bills

Bills requiring consideration of and protections for LGBTQ+ students in the context of particular subjects or topics within schools

LGBTQ+ Inclusive Menstrual Rights 29 bills

Includes requirements for stocking bathrooms with menstrual hygiene supplies with access for more than cisgender women and cisgender girls

LGBTQ+ Youth Services 6 bills

Programs directly aimed at helping LGBTQ+ minors and other LGBTQ+ young people

Marriage Equality 310 bills

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.

Military Nondiscrimination 53 bills

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)

Nondiscrimination in Government Assisted Programs

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)

Patient And Provider Protections 4 bills

Bills that offer protections to both patients and providers of gender-affirming care

Prisoner Nondiscrimination 94 bills

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

Privacy 70 bills

Bills which support an individual's control about what information is shared about them and to whom.

Privacy: Anti-Doxxing 4 bills
Bills protecting LGBTQ+ people from doxxing;
Privacy: Data Protection 56 bills
Bills that protect the privacy LGBTQ+ folk regarding personal data such as LGBTQ+ status, health records, etc. May rename "Data Privacy"
Privacy: Medical 18 bills
Bills protecting against the unwanted sharing of medical data of LGBTQ+ people including trans healthcare

Private Accommodations Nondiscrimination

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

Provider Protections 42 bills

Protections for providers of gender affirming care

Public Accommodations Nondiscrimination 406 bills

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

Public Facilities Nondiscrimination 5 bills

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

Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws 187 bills

Bills that repeal pre-existing anti-LGBTQ laws

Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws: Adoption Ban
Repeals laws that stop or discourage all or a subset of LGBTQ+ people from adopting or fostering children
Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws: Anti-Sodomy 14 bills
Bills that repeal pre-existing anti-sodomy laws, including those still on the books after the Lawrence v. Texas SCOTUS decision from 2003
Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws: Athletics 3 bills
Repeals statutory trans sports bans
Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws: GAC Ban 4 bills
Repeals one or more class of restrictions on gender affirming medical care
Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws: Marriage Ban 25 bills
Repeals any form of same-sex marriage ban
Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws: Pathologization 1 bill
Repeals laws which define transness or being a member of any other class within the LGBTQ+ umbrella as a mental illness
Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Laws: Walking While Trans 8 bills
Repeals laws which allow LGBTQ+ people to be treated as likely criminals, particularly illegal sex workers, just for outwardly appearing LGBTQ+ in public spaces.

Safe State Bill 85 bills

Bills that officially mandate a state as safe for LGBTQ+ people; Inclusive of "Shield" laws

Suicide Prevention 24 bills

For legislation that works to prevent suicide in LGBTQ+ populations

Supporting LGBTQ+ Owned Businesses 22 bills

Bills that specifically support LGBTQ+ owned businesses

Supporting Unhoused LGBTQ+ People 2 bills

Bills that provide funding, shelter, or other assistance specifically to LGBTQ+ people in general who are unhoused or one of their subsets.

Supportive Resolution 110 bills

For generally supportive legislation that doesn't fit into any other category

Supportive Resolution: Nondiscrimination 11 bills
Nonbinding resolutions calling for one or more forms of anti-discrimination re: LGBTQ+ people

Voter Nondiscrimination 3 bills

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

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