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Legislation Affecting LGBTQ Rights Across the Country [1]

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Date: 2023-01

Last updated 12/2/22 - This webpage is updated on a monthly basis on Fridays through December, and then weekly beginning in January when most state sessions resume

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in America continue to face discrimination in their daily lives. While more states every year work to pass laws to protect LGBTQ people, we continue to see state legislatures advancing bills that target transgender people, limit local protections, and allow the use of religion to discriminate.

*Note: Bills are reported as Active below if they were introduced in their states' 2021 legislative sessions and have carried over to 2022. The status date indicates the convening of the state's 2022 session or the most current activity on a particular bill.

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View 2020 Session bills

View 2019 Session bills.

View 2018 Session bills.

Anti-LGBTQ Bills:

Anti-Trans Bills

These measures target transgender and nonbinary people for discrimination, such as by barring or criminalizing healthcare for trans youth, barring access to the use of appropriate facilities like restrooms, restricting trans students’ ability to fully participate in school and sports, allowing religiously-motivated discrimination against trans people, or making it more difficult for them to get identification documents with their name and gender.

a. Restricting healthcare for transgender youth

b. Single-Sex Facility Restrictions

c. Excluding transgender youth from athletics

d. Other school or curriculum restrictions

e. Restrictions on accessing accurate ID

State Bill Number Status MS SB 2356 / HB 1099 Dead 2/10/22 Died on calendar 3/9/22 OK SB 1100 Signed by Governor 4/26/22

f. Other Anti-Trans bills

Religious Exemption Bills

a. Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRAs)

b. Religious Exemptions in Healthcare Implicating LGBTQ People

c. Religious Exemptions in Adoption & Foster Care

d. Other Religious Exemption Bills

State Bill Number Status IA HF 170 Dead 5/24/22 MA H. 1536 Dead 8/1/22 VA HB 1137 Died in subcommittee 2/10/22

Bills Pre-Empting Local Protections

These bills prevent cities and other local government entities from passing nondiscrimination protections that are more expansive than the protections offered at the state level, including protections for LGBTQ people.

Other Anti-LGBTQ Bills

State Bill Number Status TN SB 1208 Dead 4/28/22 WI AB 14

SB 31 Failed to pass 3/15/22

Failed to pass 3/15/22



LGBTQ Equality Bills

a. Nondiscrimination protections

b. Protections in healthcare

c. Allowing updated gender markers on ID

d. Sex work decriminalization bills

e. Other good bills

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