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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 22/09/2026
California's AB 2164, vetoed on Sunday by Newsom, is a shield law that would have extended existing protections from out of state prosecutions re: abortion to cover other reproductive care and gender affirming care. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTe...
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Bill Text - AB-2164 Legally protected activities.
AB 2164 Legally protected activities.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/09/2026
I created a live anti trans ad tracker that tracks all anti trans ad spending on meta and Google. It runs and updates nightly. You can see ad campaigns in real time. adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com
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2026 anti-trans ad tracker
Anti-trans political ads in the 2026 US midterms on Meta and Google, flagged nightly by a classifier.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/09/2026
You can see exactly how much it's being spent on digital ads here. adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com?adv=meta%3A3...
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2026 anti-trans ad tracker
Anti-trans political ads in the 2026 US midterms on Meta and Google, flagged nightly by a classifier.
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 17/09/2026
On Monday, before the "Let's not have an impeachment vote re: Hegseth" adjournment, HOROTUS passed an FY '27 defense budget (NDAA). It includes a K12 sports ban for DOD run schools (Sec 579B), an all ages TRICARE GAC ban (Sec. 709) and a pride flag ban (Sec. 1059) www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 10/09/2026
For now, only the bill title is available, but it looks like your favorite outgoing South Carolina Republican Rep. has introduced a bill "to provide for requirements sensitive Government positions relating to gender dysphoria" i.e. some kind of trans ban. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 10/09/2026
Last week Michigan Republicans introduced HB 6287, a bill to remove the existing ability to update gender markers on birth certificates. legiscan.com/MI/text/HB62...
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Michigan HB6287 | 2025-2026 | 103rd Legislature
Bill Text (2026-09-01) Records: birth; certificate of birth requirements; modify. Amends secs. 2831, 2872 & 2891 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.2831 et seq.). [Per Rule 40 Referred To Committee On Government...
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 04/09/2026
H.R. 2555 is a Federal bill about letting colleges have single-sex social organizations with 36 GOP & 11 Dem cosponsors. Last Thursday, it was gutted and replaced with a similarly themed but briefer bill which also added in a gamete production definition of sex. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 26/07/2026
I've updated my doc detailing the LGBTQ+ affecting portions of the U.S. Federal Appropriations Budget bills for FY 2027 FWIW - most of these provisions have appeared and have been amended away from prior years' budgets excepting GAC, Sports, & Flag bans. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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FY 2027 Federal Budget on LGBTQ+
Introduction This document contains and sorts the various anti-trans and otherwise anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in the appropriations bills for the U.S. Federal budget for FY 2027, which runs from October 1...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/07/2026
1. Anti-trans ballot initiatives are spreading across the United States. In 2026, it appears that five states: Colorado, Washington, Arizona, Nebraska, and Missouri will send such referendums to voters. Allied organizations are trying to fight back. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives Spread In Five States, As Some Opposition To Them Grows
The fight pits billionaire money against transgender people and allied organizations in five states.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/07/2026
Now I've created a similar database of roughly 500 trans related federal cases over decades with as many available docket entries as possible. It has document viewer built in, judge reports, expert declaration tracking, etc. all within a vector embedded database with RAG connected to it.
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 22/07/2026
Text of the anti-trans amendments to the NDAA - the Defense portion of the budget: 1st: Bans TRICARE from paying for trans healthcare & defines sex via gamete production. 2nd says that K12 schools operated by the DOD can't let trans girls play on girls' teams. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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US HR 8800 Mace amendments
19. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Mace of South Carolina or a Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes At the end of subtitle A of title VII, add the following new sectio...
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 16/07/2026
New Hampshire Governor Ayotte has vetoed HB 1442, which would have allowed but not required trans segregation in bathrooms, sports, prisons, and mental health facilities. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/07/16/n...
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New Hampshire's so-called ‘bathroom bill’ vetoed again, one of 29 vetoes for the year  • New Hampshire Bulletin
Gov. Kelly Ayotte has again vetoed legislation to keep transgender people out of bathrooms, sports teams, and prisons that align with their gender identity.
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 09/07/2026
We have a new dashboard for accessing and visualizing the LGBTQ+ Legislation data we've spent countless hours gathering, organizing, and analyzing.
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 09/07/2026
What remains in New Hampshire to be decided for this term is whether Gov. Ayotte will veto or sign HB 1442, which, like IWV's so-called "Women's Bill of Rights" from 2022, would allow but not require trans segregation in bathrooms, locker rooms, prisons, and athletics. gc.nh.gov/bill_status/...
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 09/07/2026
New Hampshire Gov. Ayotte signed HB 1332, a Pride flag ban that limits flag displays on government grounds to a specified set - excluding but not directly naming Pride flags. legiscan.com/NH/bill/HB13...
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New Hampshire HB1332 | 2026 | Regular Session
Summary (2026-06-23) Relative to the authorized display of flags on state house grounds. [Enrolled (in recess of) 06/04/2026 House Journal 15]
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 09/07/2026
New Hampshire Gov. Ayotte, however did veto HB 232, one in a long line of Medical Freedom of Conscience bills, which like this have a focus on abortion, but also can apply to sterilization and by extension to some gender affirming health care procedures. legiscan.com/NH/bill/HB23...
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New Hampshire HB232 | 2026 | Regular Session
Summary (2026-06-23) Relative to the rights of conscience for medical professionals. [Enrolled (in recess of) 06/04/2026 House Journal 15]
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 09/07/2026
SB 430 is a vaguely written mandatory disclosure law which doesn't directly mention gender identity or sexual orientation, but is of the same general mode as those that have www.advocate.com/politics/sta...
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New Hampshire governor signs law forcing schools to out transgender students
State educators and LGBTQ+ advocates say the law puts teachers in the position of endangering vulnerable students.
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 05/07/2026
On Monday June 29, California's SB 164 became chaptered law and included an expands the California Reproductive Health Equity Fund as a safety net from contraception and abortion to also cover for gender affirming medical care. legiscan.com/CA/text/SB16...
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California SB164 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session
Bill Text (2026-06-29) Health. [Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 27, Statutes of 2026.]
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 04/07/2026
On Monday, Missouri's DOC Appropriations bill was approved and enacted including a provision that ""No funds shall be expended for any cross-sex hormones, or gender transition surgery undertaken for the purpose of any gender transition" for prisoners. legiscan.com/MO/text/HB20...
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Missouri HB2009 | 2026 | Regular Session
Bill Text (2026-06-30) Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Corrections [Delivered to Secretary of State (G)]
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 01/07/2026
Tennessee's SB 1741 / HB 1476 also goes into effect today. It's an academic freedom of conscience bill, a model that has been around for a bit. It's named after Charlie Kirk & like many things aimed at permitting hate speech, it purports to be about free speech wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinf...
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Bill Information - Tennessee General Assembly
View detailed bill information for the Tennessee General Assembly, including sponsors, summaries, amendments, action history, fiscal notes, and voting records.
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 01/07/2026
SB 0468 / HB 0571 - Tennessee's version of Independent Women's Voices "Stand with Women Act" - the 2025 successor to the WBR, goes into effect today, and is named after your favorite fifth place collegiate swimmer. wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinf...
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Bill Information - Tennessee General Assembly
View detailed bill information for the Tennessee General Assembly, including sponsors, summaries, amendments, action history, fiscal notes, and voting records.
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 01/07/2026
Tennessee's HB 2498 / SB 2118 goes into effect today and bans its Medicaid program, TennCare, from providing gender affirming trans healthcare. It grandfathers those with existing TennCare coverage, but drops their coverage too in 2027. wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinf...
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Bill Information - Tennessee General Assembly
View detailed bill information for the Tennessee General Assembly, including sponsors, summaries, amendments, action history, fiscal notes, and voting records.
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 01/07/2026
Also effective today 2026-07-01, South Dakota's HB 1184, which removes all instances of "gender" throughout state code, replacing them with "sex" and defining "sex" according to which sort of gamete a person produces. sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill...
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 01/07/2026
Also effective today 7/1/2026, is Mississippi's SB 2322, which both blocks and invalidates driver's licenses of those who can't prove citizenship as well as requires new or renewed licenses to display sex according to assigned gender at birth. billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20...
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SB2322 (As Sent to Governor) - 2026 Regular Session
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 01/07/2026
Iowa's HF 864 Law is among the recent ones requiring age verification for online content providers with a specified amount of content determined to be "pornographic for minors". We all want to keep kids safe, but these sorts of laws can paradoxically run counter that. legiscan.com/IA/bill/HF86...
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Iowa HF864 | 2025-2026 | 91st General Assembly
Summary (2026-06-01) A bill for an act requiring persons who operate certain internet sites, applications, or a segment of an internet site or application that contains material pornographic for minor...
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 01/07/2026
The other Iowa laws effective today that we've tracked are more oblique in how they are anti-LGBTQ+ Iowa's HF 571 is a Medical Freedom of Conscience Bill that says health care providers can't be penalized for not providing services that violate their conscience. legiscan.com/IA/bill/HF57...
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Iowa HF571 | 2025-2026 | 91st General Assembly
Summary (2026-05-19) A bill for an act relating to protections for medical practitioners and health care institutions, including those related to the exercise of conscience, whistleblower activities, ...
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 01/07/2026
Iowa has a few bad new laws that are effective today. The one that is most explicitly anti-LGBTQ+ is SF 473 which allows adoption services or prospective parents to misgender their trans kids or not support their queer kids if their religion/conscience says so. www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/...
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Iowa Legislature - BillBook
Information pertaining to the Iowa Legislature as well as the Executive and Judicial branch in as much as they relate to the legislative branch
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 01/07/2026
Also out of Idaho, and _not_ under injunction, is H 822, a social transitioning ban for students with a liability of up to $100K for violations. legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/...
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HOUSE BILL 822 – Idaho State Legislature
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 01/07/2026
Idaho's wretched criminal trans bathroom ban via H 0752 _would_ have gone into effect today, but it is temporarily enjoined from doing so by the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/...
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HOUSE BILL 752 – Idaho State Legislature
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 01/07/2026
As promised, (threatened?) a run down of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws that go into effect today July 1, 2026, as tracked on our @legialerts.org spreadsheets. One bill per skeet in the following thread. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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LGBTQ+ Legislative Tracking 2026
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 01/07/2026
Thread on the positive LGBTQ+ bills that go into effect tomorrow, July 1st, 2026.
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 27/06/2026
On Thursday, Republican Congressional Rep. C. Tenney of New York introduced H.R. 9487, "To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit amortization of any professional women's sports franchise which allows [trans women] to participate, & for other purposes" www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 13/06/2026
Also now heading to the Arizona ballot box, HCR 2044, which is a DEI ban primarily focused on state entities re: race, but also training, programing, & activities re: race, ethnicity, intersectionality, sexual orientation, or gender identity. legiscan.com/AZ/text/HCR2...
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Arizona HCR2044 | 2026 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 2nd Regular
Bill Text (2026-06-12) Preferential treatment; discrimination; prohibited acts [Transmitted to Secretary of State]
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 13/06/2026
Arizona HCR 2003, which puts forward a ballot measure for a Save Women's Sports Act style trans girls' sports ban for K12 intermural and interscholastic sports & leagues, has gone to the Sec of State. legiscan.com/AZ/text/HCR2...
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Arizona HCR2003 | 2026 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 2nd Regular
Bill Text (2026-06-12) Interscholastic; intramural athletics; biological sex [Transmitted to Secretary of State]
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Liz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 12/06/2026
Need to see that legislators also write and pass bills that are pro-trans & pro-LGBTQ+ in general? Besides including it in the annual legislative trackers, I've been compiling all that here, going back to 2003: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Big Compilation Pro-LGBTQ Legislation Sheet
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 10/06/2026
Arizona Senate Bill is governor-bound. SB 1015 holds health care providers liable for 25 years for detrans expenses should a patient they provided trans healthcare to as a minor, detransition. legiscan.com/AZ/text/SB10...
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Arizona SB1015 | 2026 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 2nd Regular
Bill Text (2026-06-10) Gender transition procedures; provider liability [Transmitted to Governor]
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 10/06/2026
Another Arizona bill is off to the governor. HB 2249 involves forced outing to parents of trans students who want to socially transition + a $20K liability for school employees who encourage/facilitate student to withhold info from their parents. legiscan.com/AZ/text/HB22...
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Arizona HB2249 | 2026 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 2nd Regular
Bill Text (2026-06-10) Parents' bill of rights; remedies [Transmitted to Governor]
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 07/06/2026
Louisiana and Illinois both adjourned on Monday June 1st; there are 3 surviving positive Illinois bills awaiting Gov. Pritzker's attention. Louisiana has a couple anti-trans House bills that have drawn attention here before waiting on the governor. 1/2
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 07/06/2026
Positive Law New York's sine die was Friday. The only bill that we're tracking from them that passed (other than some resolutions for Pride and the like) was S 8807, a gender affirming health care insurance coverage & patient information privacy shield law legiscan.com/NY/text/S088...
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New York S08807 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly
Bill Text (2026-06-05) Specifies that professional liability insurance insurers cannot deny coverage or increase rates solely based on legal use or prescription of certain gender-affirming care-relate...
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 07/06/2026
New Hampshire's sine die was Thursday. A number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills appear to have passed both chambers, though not all currently show statuses indicating that they're waiting on the Governor. They include: 1/7
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 05/06/2026
Housing and _Urban_ Development ...smh - Liz
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 05/06/2026
Michigan's House Republicans' gender affirming care ban trio passed the House & went to the Senate. They include: HB 4466: licensure sanctions for providing minors GAC HB 4467: prohibition of GAC for minors w/ liability HB 4468: detrans coverage requirements & liability for expenses of detransition
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/06/2026
Good news just in time for Pride! Hawai'i Governor Josh Green has signed the trans shield law in the state. Hawai'i was one of the last blue states left without a shield law protecting trans people's healthcare. The latest from staff writer S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Hawai'i Governor Signs Powerful Trans Shield Law Bill Just In Time For Pride
“Parents and caregivers who affirm, support, and seek medically appropriate care for their keiki [child] are exercising their fundamental right.”
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 05/06/2026
LegiAlerts monitors bills and laws affecting LGBTQ+ people, has been doing so since the start of the 2023 legislative sessions and maintains records of such legislation back through 2004 and earlier. tracker.legialerts.org
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LGBTQ+ Legislative Tracking 2026
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 05/06/2026
Louisiana Gov. Landry has signed HB 1137 It allows government employees to misgender trans & nonbinary folks on the job if doing so aligns with that person's legal name or AGAB, and forbids employers from setting policies blocking that. Effective Aug. 1st 2026. legiscan.com/LA/text/HB11...
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Louisiana HB1137 | 2026 | Regular Session
Bill Text (2026-05-29) Prohibits intentional discrimination based on compelled speech with respect to using certain pronouns, names, or honorifics [Effective date: 08/01/2026.]
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 04/06/2026
The Department of Housing and Human Development is taking comments on a proposed rule that would remove protections against discrimination vs trans folks and insert trans exclusionary sex definitions instead. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Revisions
This proposed rule would harmonize HUD's existing Equal Access regulations with the directions of the Executive Order titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Tr...
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 04/06/2026
The Department of Housing and Human Development is taking comments on a proposed rule that would remove protections against discrimination vs trans folks and insert trans exclusionary sex definitions instead. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Revisions
This proposed rule would harmonize HUD's existing Equal Access regulations with the directions of the Executive Order titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Tr...
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 04/06/2026
Rep. Mary Miller from Illinois and other House Republicans would like to label Pride with a collection of negative things and instead declare June to be "Family Month" with rather limited cis-het monogamous definitions of what that means via H. Res. 1338 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 04/06/2026
Yesterday, Republican Congressional Rep Brian Mast from Florida introduced H.R. 9087, which in addition to a Pride Flag ban (of the type that limits flag displays to a specific short list) also requires compliance with the DOS's rule from 2026-01-27, "Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign Assistance"
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/06/2026
1. Governor Jared Polis has signed a new conversion therapy ban, defying the Supreme Court. It uses the same mechanism Texas used to get around Roe v. Wade: private lawsuits. The law goes into effect on July 1st. www.erininthemorning.com/p/colorado-g...
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Colorado Gov. Polis Signs New Conversion Therapy Ban, Defying Supreme Court
The law uses a private right of action to bypass a recent SCOTUS ruling allowing conversion therapy.
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