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Oregon SB1547 | 2026 | Regular Session Bill Text (2026-03-05) Relating to licensed behavioral health and wellness practitioners; and prescribing an effective date. [Governor signed.]

Positive Law Signed

Last Thursday, Oregon's Governor Kotek signed into law licensure protections for providers of reproductive care and for providers of gender affirming medical care via SB 1547; effective 6/5/2026

legiscan.com/OR/text/SB15...

09.03.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Minnesota SF4243 | 2025-2026 | 94th Legislature Bill Text (2026-03-09) Gender-affirming medical care and certain counseling prohibition for minors in the state of Minnesota [Referred to Health and Human Services]

Minnesota State Senate Republicans want to not only ban trans medical care for minors but also gender affirming therapy or counseling, by subjecting violations of either to a $500K per incident penalty + loss of license + up to 10 yrs imprisonment.

SF 4243

legiscan.com/MN/text/SF42...

07.03.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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LGBTQ+ Legislative Tracking 2026

We've been tracking both the anti-LGBTQ+ bills and the pro-LGBTQ+ bills at LegiAlerts since 2023, with retro-tracking sheets for 2009-2022 and earlier in our archives.

tracker.legialerts.org

05.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Utah SB0174 | 2026 | General Session Bill Text (2026-03-04) Exercise of Religious Beliefs and Conscience Amendments [House/ to Senate in Senate President]

Utah SB 0174 Is a medical Freedom of Conscience bill of the sort that has been kicking around since 2015 or 2016 and is related to the First Amendment Defense Act; There's no direct SOGIE references in it.

legiscan.com/UT/text/SB01...

05.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Utah HB0404 | 2026 | General Session Bill Text (2026-03-03) Sex-Designated Housing Amendments [House/ to Governor in Executive Branch - Governor]

Utah HB 0404 "Permits a landlord to restrict occupancy in single-sex housing to individuals of the designated biological sex;"

legiscan.com/UT/text/HB04...

05.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Utah HB0258 | 2026 | General Session Bill Text (2026-03-05) Insurance Coverage Amendments [Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared in Legislative Research and General Counsel / Enrolling]

Utah HB 0258 Requires health benefit plans that provide GAC coverage also cover hormonal and surgical detransition coverage

legiscan.com/UT/text/HB02...

05.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Utah HB0174 | 2026 | General Session Bill Text (2026-03-03) Sex Characteristic Change Treatment Amendments [House/ enrolled bill to Printing in Clerk of the House]

Utah HB 0174 Amended to be a ban on continuing HRT for minors under 16, and on starting new HRT for any minors, from a tapering off HRT for minors bill.

legiscan.com/UT/text/HB01...

05.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Utah is wrapping up its regular session tomorrow.

Bills which have passed both chambers and need only housekeeping or are already en route to the governor include:

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05.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Journal Club: How Anti-Trans Policies Hurt Students β€” Assigned Following the enactment of cruel anti-trans policies, a 2026 review looks at the impacts of these policies on trans students. Journal Club dives into this review to see the real harms of these kinds o...

A 2026 review looks at the real life impacts that anti-trans policies have on trans youth in school. @veraeikon.bsky.social takes a look at this review in this month's Journal Club.

05.03.2026 17:08 πŸ‘ 114 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
Georgia HB1480 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session Bill Text (2026-03-04) Georgia Medicare for All Act; enact [House Second Readers]

Positive Bill

Georgia Democrats are sponsoring HB 1480 which, among other things, removes the existing ban on providing gender affirming medical care to prisoners.

legiscan.com/GA/text/HB14...

05.03.2026 10:58 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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LGBTQ+ Legislative Tracking 2026

We've been tracking both the anti-LGBTQ+ bills and the pro-LGBTQ+ bills at LegiAlerts since 2023, with retro-tracking sheets for 2009-2022 and earlier in our archives.

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05.03.2026 03:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a second round of Idaho State House Republicans' "Pediatric Secretive Transitions Parental Rights Act" - this time via H 0822 same forced outing provisions for healthcare providers & schools. Same $100K liability.

legiscan.com/ID/text/H082...

05.03.2026 03:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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LGBTQ+ Legislative Tracking 2026

We've been tracking both the anti-LGBTQ+ bills and the pro-LGBTQ+ bills at LegiAlerts since 2023, with retro-tracking sheets for 2009-2022 and earlier in our archives.

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05.03.2026 03:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rhode Island S2790 | 2026 | Regular Session Summary (2026-03-04) Mandates that athletic teams that are sponsored by a public school or a private school whose teams compete against a public school, be designated as (1) "males", "men" or "boys"; ...

Four Rhode Island State Senate Democrats joined three Republicans to sponsor this classic Alliance Defending Freedom (2020 model) Save Women's Sports Bill, to ban trans girls from K12 sports via S 2790

legiscan.com/RI/bill/S279...

05.03.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

"This is the second..."

04.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unlike the Kansas law, this does not appear to affect existing licenses or state IDs.

04.03.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Okla. Admin. Code Β§ 670:15-1-10 - Procedure for obtaining a replacement driver license

Original law re: driver's licenses. The new law repeals sections (c) (4), (5), and (6) re: "sex change"
The revoked law for state IDs is similar.

www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/...

04.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Oklahoma HJR1032 | 2026 | Regular Session Bill Text (2026-03-03) Repealing rules; Service Oklahoma; distribution. [Approved by Governor 03/03/2026]

Oklahoma Republicans via HJR 1032, repealed provisions which, until yesterday, allowed people to update their gender markers on their driver's licenses or state IDs due to transitioning with a court order.

This is the anti-trans bill passed & enacted this year.

legiscan.com/OK/text/HJR1...

04.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Not just trans folks though. The other exclusions are for:

"...pedophilia, exhibitionism, voyeurism,... or other sexual behavior disorders;
(2) compulsive gambling, kleptomania, or pyromania; or
(3) psychoactive substance use disorders resulting from current illegal use of drugs."

04.03.2026 02:47 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Kentucky SB351 | 2026 | Regular Session Bill Text (2026-03-02) AN ACT relating to education professional certifications. [to Committee on Committees (S)]

Kentucky Republican State Senators want to use SB 351 to deny or revoke teaching credentials from anyone diagnosed with a condition excluded by the ADA eg: "transvestism, transsexualism,... gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments..."

legiscan.com/KY/text/SB35...

04.03.2026 02:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Kentucky HB867 | 2026 | Regular Session Bill Text (2026-03-03) AN ACT relating to private spaces. [to Committee on Committees (H)]

Kentucky State House Republicans are floating HB 867 which is a trans bathroom ban for government owned properties with criminal misdemeanor penalties and sperm & egg production sex definitions.

legiscan.com/KY/text/HB86...

04.03.2026 02:08 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Connecticut SB00399 | 2026 | General Assembly Bill Text (2026-03-03) An Act Permitting Separate Areas For Exercise On The Basis Of Sex In Health Clubs And Gyms And Concerning The Disposition Of Cases Before The Commission On Human Rights And Oppo...

In SB 00399 Connecticut legislators say it's fine to have separate sections for exercise based on sex, w/o defining sex, but added to existing protections that have gender identity or expression and sex as distinctly separate protected classes.

legiscan.com/CT/text/SB00...

03.03.2026 10:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
California SB771 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session Summary (2026-03-02) Personal rights: liability: social media platforms. [Veto sustained.]

California legislators failed to override Newsom's veto of SB 771 which would have made activities that would have qualified as hate crimes offline, also considered hate crimes when conducted over social media, & with SOGI among protected classes.

legiscan.com/CA/bill/SB77...

03.03.2026 10:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
California SB418 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session Summary (2026-03-02) Health care coverage: prescription hormone therapy and nondiscrimination. [Veto sustained.]

California legislators failed to override Newsom's veto of SB 418 which would have put in place trans & intersex bias training & nondiscrimination requirements for health care providers & would have made available 12 month HRT prescriptions.

legiscan.com/CA/bill/SB41...

03.03.2026 10:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
West Virginia SB1083 | 2026 | Regular Session Bill Text (2026-03-03) Requiring registration as sex offender for conviction of indecent exposure to certain minors [On 2nd reading]

West Virginia State Senate Republicans, via SB 1083 want to charge trans folks w/ indecent exposure if they use locker rooms aligned with their gender "when the person knows that the conduct is likely to cause affront or alarm" to those to whom they "expose" themselves.

legiscan.com/WV/text/SB10...

03.03.2026 03:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jordan Anderson writes about this bill, Georgia SB 1210, for The Imprint:

bsky.app/profile/thei...

02.03.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Louisiana HB578 | 2026 | Regular Session Bill Text (2026-02-26) Provides for the Restoring Biological Truth Act [Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.]

Louisiana Republican State Rep. Mike Johnson is using HB 578 to try to replace all instances of the word "gender" in Louisiana code with "sex", declare that "gender" can't substitute for "sex" and that "sex" means what folks saw between your legs when you were born.

legiscan.com/LA/text/HB57...

27.02.2026 03:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Alabama SB331 | 2026 | Regular Session Bill Text (2026-02-26) Public preK-12 education; discussions of gender identity prohibited, employees prohibited from displaying flags or insignia relating to sexual orientation or gender identity and...

Alabama State Sen. Keith Kelley is sponsoring SB 331 - which is a Don't Say Gay or Trans Bill for grades K-12, a ban on using pronouns not aligned with assigned gender at birth and one of the more direct pride flag bans, calling out sexual orientation & gender identity.

legiscan.com/AL/text/SB33...

27.02.2026 00:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Heads up @transgenderreport.com @assignedmedia.org @19thnews.org @legialerts.org the horrific anti-trans HB183 at the Utah legislature is moving again, with a sub that removed some of its most extreme elements.

Worry it can pass given how the legislature has pushed other bills. HB404 already passed

26.02.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Minnesota HF12 | 2025-2026 | 94th Legislature Bill Text (2025-03-03) Female sports team participation restricted to the female sex. [Author added Davis]

This is also a copy of a House bill from 2025, which is technically still alive but has had not activity in nearly a year.

HF 12 has diverged from its introduced version through amendments to now have an egg & sperm production definition of sex baked in.

legiscan.com/MN/text/HF12...

26.02.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0