Here is how state legislatures have been attacking – and also helping – when it comes to trans people and their rights.
- A bill requiring health care plans to cover gender-affirming care in Minnesota advanced. (Minnesota Legislature)
- Alabama lawmakers are considering a bill that would expand the state’s ban on discussing sexual orientation and gender identity in schools – called “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” by opponents – to include high school students. (Alabama Political Reporter)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James told Nassau County to stop banning trans girls from playing sports, and the county’s executive sued. (LGBTQ Nation)
- A plurality of Iowans oppose a Republican proposal to require trans people to have both their sex assigned at birth and their gender identity on their birth certificates. (Des Moines Register)
- A bill banning gender-affirming care for trans minors in Wyoming passed a state senate committee vote as well as a vote on the state house floor. (WyoFile)
- A state house committee in Idaho passed a ban on Medicaid reimbursing transgender people for gender-affirming care for both adults and children. It passed on party lines. (Idaho Capital Sun)
- The Maryland Senate approved a bill to protect providers of gender-affirming care from civil and criminal actions brought by other states. (WJZ News)
- A bill in Maine would protect access to abortion and gender-affirming care. (News Center Maine)
- Hawaii’s legislature is considering a bill to allow gender-affirming care via telehealth. (KITV)
- The ACLU sued Nebraska over its ban on gender-affirming care, and the state supreme court heard the case this week. (WOWT)
