BREAKING: After a late night at the Capitol to finish out the 2026 legislative session, we could not be more excited to share that WE DID IT! We successfully defeated ALL of the nearly 15 pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation! Swipe to read our full statement:

"Steward, too, wants Ohioans to remember that HB 798 is not a law and is unlikely to become law before the General Assembly ends its two-year session in December. “In essence, this is a taxpayer-funded press release dressed up as a bill,” Steward said."

Kentucky legislature failed to pass any anti-LGBTQ+ bills before breaking for the two week veto period before the legislature closes. They're effectively dead. kentuckylantern.com/2026/04/02/a...

Idaho H 822 is the "Pediatric Secretive Transitions Parental Rights Act." 🙄 It says schools & healthcare providers can't let kids do anything towards transitioning including social transitioning w/o parental permission subject to a $100K liability penalty legiscan.com/ID/text/H082...

More Idaho bill movement. Two bills have passed both chambers & returned to their house of origin. H516 is a don't say gay or trans bill which strikes the sentence that would allow K12 instruction on SOGIE if developmentally & age appropriate. legiscan.com/ID/text/H051...

Ohio Republican State Rep. Josh Williams also wants to incarcerate trans women with cis men & deny them trans healthcare through HB 796 legiscan.com/OH/bill/HB79...

Ohio Republican State Rep. Josh Williams is getting in the transphobe's version of the TDOV spirit and has introduced a trans bathroom / trans segregation bill as HB 798 There's too much in this for one skeet so here's the Buckeye Flame's rundown thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/03/31/h...

Also out of Idaho, the bill closing the loophole allowing municipalities to fly Pride flags if they adopted such flags as official City flag, has been signed. H 0561 idahonews.com/news/local/g...

Idaho Governor Brad Little has signed the law that makes it a felony punishable up to 5 years in prison for trans people to use the bathroom. He did so on trans day of visibility. www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

And in horrifying news, Idaho's governor has signed the felony bathroom ban, with 5 year penalties for second offense bathroom usage, into law. This is the most significant criminalization of trans people to date. On trans day of visibility no less. It will require a new "Do not travel" warning.

Tennessee Democratic State Rep. Aftyn Behn has introduced a resolution honoring Transgender Day of Visibility today. legiscan.com/TN/bill/HJR1...

The remaining anti-trans bills in Wisconsin have also been vetoed - they just haven't updated to LegiScan yet AB 100 docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposa...

Meta: I just did some housekeeping and marked a number of bills as failed for not having passed from one of their state legislature's chambers to the other (Crossover deadlines). -Liz tracker.legialerts.org

Positive News: Wisconsin Governor Evers has vetoed two gender affirming medical care bans for minors (one standard (AB 104), one liability oriented (SB 405) legiscan.com/WI/bill/AB10...

Earlier this month, Pennsylvania State House Democrats introduced HR 433, a resolution recognizing Transgender Day of Visibility for March 31, 2026 in the Commonwealth. legiscan.com/PA/text/HR43...

Delaware's House Democrats on Wednesday introduced a resolution marking 3/31/26 as International Day of Transgender Visibility via HCR 106 - which has passed both Delaware's House & Senate. legiscan.com/DE/bill/HCR1...

Senate Democrats also have introduced a resolution in support of the "goals and ideals of International Transgender Day of Visibility." through SCR 32 legiscan.com/US/bill/SCR3...

Congressional House Democrats yesterday introduced HCR 82, a resolution in support of the "goals and ideals of International Transgender Day of Visibility" legiscan.com/US/text/HCR8...

We need to correct this BS by Stephen A. Smith because it keeps coming up. Lia Thomas was ranked Men's 63rd EISL and 20th at UPenn the year she was on HRT but still required to compete on the Men's Team. Pre-HRT she was ranked Men's 4th EISL and 2nd at UPenn. She was NEVER mediocre.

Illinois SB 2079 a trans women/girls sports ban for Colleges & K12, woke up on Friday 3/27 after an 11 month slumber. legiscan.com/IL/text/SB20...

South Carolina's college trans bathroom ban bill H4756 has now passed both House & Senate & needs to reconcile versions before proceeding to the Governor. www.abccolumbia.com/2026/03/27/s...

Meanwhile, in the Minnesota House, Republicans put forward HF 4755 which eliminates the statute of limitations for liability connected to gender affirming medical care for minors. legiscan.com/MN/text/HF47...

Minnesota State Senate Republicans today introduced a new trans healthcare ban bill for minors including a ban gender affirming therapy/counseling with an up to 10 year prison sentence for providers, plus a $500K fine, & loss of license. MN 2025 SF 4912 legiscan.com/MN/text/SF49...

This Bill, TN HB754, has just passed the House: Ayes 70, Nays 21, PNV 2 It has requirements for performing detransition services if GAC is offered & to report GAC stats with dates wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinf...

South Carolina's trans bathroom ban extension to colleges (SC 2025 H 4756) has now passed the House entirely, & a 2nd (of 3) vote in the Senate. This bill is based on ADF's model bill from the first wave of bathroom bans in 2015, the Student Physical Privacy Act. scdailygazette.com/2026/03/26/s...

The similar bill HB 3130, also a ban on public funds for GAC, passed the Oklahoma House last night. It also says that parents not helping their kids receive trans health care are not guilty of abuse or neglect. legiscan.com/OK/text/HB31...

We hadn't caught this trans healthcare all ages Medicaid ban when it was amended in last week. But it has now passed Oklahoma's Senate as SB 904 - currently the details re: trans care are online in the amendments. - Liz www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.asp...

Montana 2025 SB 437 had been sitting on Gov. Gianforte's desk for 11 months. He signed it yesterday It puts gamete production definitions of sex throughout state code. bills.legmt.gov#/laws/bill/2...

🚨BREAKING🚨 - House Republicans pass drag ban targeting transgender Ohioans; bill now moves to Senate. Conservative lawmakers said they will use the bill to target transgender Ohioans who use public locker rooms. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/03/25/o...

This upcoming Wednesday is going to be a DOOZY of an anti-LGBTQ+ day in the Columbus Statehouse. The drag ban AND the bill to legally protect parents who reject their trans children both have hearings on Wednesday. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/03/21/n...

We are constantly being bombarded with information making it hard to keep up on the latest developments in transgender rights. This is why I helped create state level email alerts for transgender rights policy and law changes. 🏳️‍⚧️ Cut through the noise: l4gg.org/TransDigest

Georgia's Riley Gaines Act from last year was woken up over the weekend, gutted & replaced with a bill content that has nothing to do with trans folks and is now all about DUI programs instead. It used to be a Stand with Women Act highlights bill. legiscan.com/GA/text/HB26...

Missouri Republican State Reps have an appropriations bill banning spending on trans health care for prisoners or as they say "any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite biological sex." HB2009 legiscan.com/MO/text/HB20...

India's Lok Sabha passed a bill significantly rolling back trans rights. It eliminates self ID and instead requires a medical board certificate. It restricts legal recognition to intersex and cultural groups such as the Hijra. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/lok-sa...

The anti-trans "Gender Dysphoria Institute" is recruiting transgender youth for a new study. It's run by some of the worst anti-trans "scientists" out there. Now, our writer S. Baum has uncovered a massive dark money network from the far-right funding it. See our latest investigation.

Yesterday Utah's Governor Cox signed HB 404 into law, which allows landlords to segregate housing by birth designated sex. legiscan.com/UT/text/HB04...

I spoke with my good friend Elad Nehorai (@eladn.bsky.social) about the war on trans people. It was a difficult conversation but one I'm glad we had. youtu.be/SJa4WR2xxys?...

South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden has signed into law HB 1184, which defines male and female by who produces what gametes throughout state code. legiscan.com/SD/text/HB11...

We hadn't been tracking it, but today Ohio has enacted HB 29, a bill for providing menstrual hygiene products to prisoners - which is well needed - but in the process they see fit to define "female" by XX chromosomes & egg production. legiscan.com/OH/text/HB29...

If you want to see what sort of story the decades of data we've pulled together at LegiAlerts re: LGBTQ+ related legislation, particularly anti-trans bills & laws, Alejandra puts it all together here. -Liz.

Hawaii's Legislature's deadline for bills to cross over from House to Senate or Senate to House was Thursday 3/12. Of the bills we've been following four of the pro-LGBTQ+ and none of the anti-LGBTQ+ definitively made the cut. There are one of each that were close, that I don't know made it or not

Yesterday was Florida's 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘦, the end of the regular, 2026 legislative session. Most of the bills in that state that we were tracking died then. A SOGI inclusive DEI ban, S 1134 is on its way to DeSantis, though. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/s...

South Carolina State Rep. Donald McCabe wants to make sure foster kids, for single sex housing, are placed by "anatomical sex at birth as recognized on their original birth certificate and shall not take into consideration the gender identity of the child" via H 5354 legiscan.com/SC/text/H535...

The first state in the US to remove statutory protections for an entire class, gender identity, has just enacted a bill preventing local municipalities from having their own protections for trans people. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

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...

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...

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: 🧵

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.

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...

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...