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LGBTQ Legislation - Google Drive

There's been some tiny amounts of pre-filing in the state legislatures for the 2027 session but that won't really get going until (but very soon) after the November election. But for earlier stuff our archives are here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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_Most_ of the legislative activity for the 2026 or 2025-26 sessions have wrapped up, but not all. & we've got some new tools that have helped find more bills I had missed. I've added over 150 positive bills from sorting through that batch this past week & a half. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

LGBTQ+ Legislative Tracking 2026

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In parallel to, but separate from the LegiAlerts tracking project, I've been tracing how the language legislators have used to describe gender identity, and gender assigned at birth over the same multi-decade stretch. bsky.app/profile/lizs...

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& I doubt anyone reading this needs reminding of how the assault on trans rights has intensified over the past decade, but in this spreadsheet with graphs, and dozens of source pages I look at the anti-LGBTQ+ bills docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Big Compilation Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Sheet

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The dashboard up top will let you look at the pro- and anti-trans and broader pro- and anti-LGBTQ+ bills through time & by groups. In this spreadsheet I focus on the positive legislation from 2004 to now. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Big Compilation Pro-LGBTQ Legislation Sheet

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W/ the dashboard on the top skeet you can control what data are displayed & visualized for the various bills, their types, & see how which sorts were focused on and to what degree through time. I have my own idiosyncratic way of doing that w/ summative spreadsheets. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Big Summary LGBTQ Bills

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Under the hood of the tracking project dashboard are several dozen annual LGBTQ+ legislation tracking spreadsheets, started live by the team for the 2023 session and backfilled thoroughly through 2004 and partially to the 1980s and earlier. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Anti- and Pro-LGBTQ+ Laws - All the Years

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Dr. Catherine Wall @catherinesjwall.com · 10/10/2026

Look, the content isn't super feel good at first glance and the lede in the thumbnail doesn't show it but more than half of those bills are actually pro-LGBTQ+. Beyond keeping up w/ current bills, I'm particularly proud of filling in the archives beyond 2004 w/ both positive and negative bills.

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This student wrote a good article that happened to have a suboptimal headline. She is delightful. She cared. She is the type of person I want to see in journalism. I want her to continue to write about important topics and not be afraid of facing so much antipathy (10)

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Dr. Catherine Wall @catherinesjwall.com · 10/10/2026

Some folks are says "well, duh. Water is wet. There are forks in the kitchen" This kinda of response demonstrates not only a profound misunderstanding about how science works, but it demonstrates a lack of understanding about how easily minoritized voices can be silenced (6)

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Dr. Catherine Wall @catherinesjwall.com · 10/10/2026

We found that anxiety about anti-trans legislation was more strongly associated with psychological distress than even everyday experiences of discrimination (and having social support helped reduce psychological distress). State-level legislative support was unrelated to psychological distress ⁉️ (3)

A network analysis showing relationships between a number of constructs

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Dr. Catherine Wall @catherinesjwall.com · 10/10/2026

Well. This is a thing. A few weeks ago, I announced my new publication in American Psychologist on LinkedIn and didn't do it here. This was clearly a mistake, as some of Bluesky has decided to pile on some... Critique of a student article talking about my work in context. I have some things to say🧵

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

in whose human mind? Not the Black people who have been revolting and fighting white supremacy since we were kidnapped and forced to build the economic engine of this country. Enslaved Black women built this country with their wombs. And Black women have been revolting and fighting ever since.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/10/2026

Sherrod Brown's new response to an anti-trans ad is remarkably different from many other dems. Instead of accepting bigotry towards trans people, he pivots and links his Republican opponent to the Epstein files. It is notably different from his earlier ads. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Sherrod Brown Answers Anti-Trans Attack Ads By Tying Jon Husted To The Epstein Files

“Jon Husted? He protected men who abused young girls by voting in the Senate to block the release of the Epstein files.”

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I believe deeply in the importance of this thread, so I'm bumping it up top again despite the topic being a downer.

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"In the instant action, the Federal defendant’s recommendation of psychotherapy as an alternative to surgery should have no bearing on the course of treatment or the conferral of benefits because the attending physician has determined that surgery is medically necessary for his patient." -all in '77

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"Although the state may reasonably encourage or discourage an optional procedure with the availability of state Medicaid coverage, the state, and, for that matter, .the courts, must not interfere with the physician’s course of treatment deemed medically necessary"

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"The determination of whether the treatment is medically necessary is a professional judgment which must be decided and certified by the attending physician in consultation with his patient."

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"Benefits for medically necessary services are not the only Medicaid coverage which states may provide eligible recipients, but they are the irreducible minimum coverage which states must provide."

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Poking around on Courtlistener, like you do: 1977: Rush v. Parham - the Federal District Court of the Northern District of Georgia orders the State's Medicaid program to cover/provide for bottom surgery for a prisoner, who was trans. www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1817...

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transrights.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org

I think the risk maps are best seen as a call to look for why the ratings are what they are. For some of that you can go to the posts where those risk maps are updated, but also there's Movement Advancement Project and Lawyers for Good Government transrights.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/states

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The Policy Resource Hub for Transgender Rights provides up-to-date information about legislation, regulations, and case law across all 56 states and territories. Updated every business day.

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