Bill for lgbtq
Inclusion on this list means the bill either directly targets LGBTQ Iowans, will have a primary impact on LGBTQ Iowans, or was created as a response to misinformation about LGBTQ Iowans. These are not the only bills we work on, but we consider them the most dangerous.
Note: Newer bills generally appear at the end of the list.
Last updated: 5/15/25
Threat levels are, in order:
Unknown, Low, Elevated, and High
HF80 & SF8
Context: Allows teachers and staff to misgender students, even if parents tell them not to
Status: Ineligible for debate due to 2nd funnel deadline
Sponsors (House):HAYES
Sponsors (Senate):GREEN
Threat Level: Elevated
Passed: No
HF51 & SF116
Context: “Obscenity” ban meant to contain drag as “obscene”
Status: Ineligible for debate due to 2nd funnel deadline
Sponsors (House): FETT
Sponsors (Senate): SALMON,CAMPBELL, WESTRICH, ALONS, GUTH, EVANS, PIKE, ROWLEY, TAYLOR and LOFGREN
Threat Level: Unknown
Passed: No
HF888& SF204
Context: Among other things, removes gender neutral language from earth language courses and lifts the cap on the number of unrelated children that can be homescho
With the holiday split over, a number of state legislatures are reconvening starting this week to hold their 2025 sessions, and LGBTQ-related bills and policies are already on the docket in many states.
Massachusetts, Montana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Fresh Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia are all states where legislators have already started meeting again to consider legislation for the brand-new year. According to the Trans Legislation Tracker, there possess been 115 trans-specific bills prefiled in 2025 as of early this week. The state-level bills are especially heavily concentrated in places like South Carolina, Texas, and Missouri and would influence transgender people in various aspects of their lives such as in health care, education, and access to restrooms. Should the trend of bills shadow like those introduced last year, other attacks may influence censorship in schools around LGBTQ issues and our community’s freedom of speech and expression more broadly.
In Texas, anti-equality lawmakersproposed 32 anti-transgender bi
Queer Lives Under Threat as Ghana's Parliament Passes Anti-LGBTQ Bill
New York, USA - February 28, 2024 - Outright International strongly condemns the passing of the "Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Standards Bill, 2021” in Ghana, which aims to criminalize the very existence of lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, transgender, and homosexual (LGBTQ) individuals and their allies. The bill that Ghana’s parliament passed on 28 February 2024 will have drastic and detrimental effects on the lives and freedoms of LGBTQ individuals in Ghana.
This draconian bill flouts Ghana’s regional and international human rights obligations. It violates the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Resolution 275, which aims to guard individuals from hostility and discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity and to ensure their matching protection under the law. Article 2 of the African Charter prohibits discrimination “of any kind,” including based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill further violates various treaties that Ghana has ratified, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which protects the rights to privacy and no
Gov. DeSantis Signs Slate of Extreme Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills, Enacting a Record-Shattering Number of Discriminatory Measures Into Law
by HRC Staff •
Florida is enacting a record six expressly anti-LGBTQ+ laws this year, more than the last seven years combined
Tallahassee, Florida – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual person, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, condemns Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for signing a slate of anti-LGBTQ+ bills planned to scale back the freedoms of LGBTQ+ people and other vulnerable communities.
Florida is enacting a record six expressly anti-LGBTQ+ bills into law this year, more than the last seven years joint.
Today, Gov. DeSantis signed HB 1069, which silences educators by prohibiting any instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity from Pre-K through 8th grade, SB 254, an highest gender affirming care prohibit, and HB 1521, an anti-trans bathroom bill.
Gov. DeSantis has also signed SB 266, which doubles down on his attacks on academic freedom, and SB 1580, a “License to Discriminate in Healthcare” bill that will grant healthcare providers and insurers to deny
Georgia’s parliament approves law curbing LGBTQ rights
Georgian politicians possess approved the third and final reading of a law on “family beliefs and the protection of minors” that would impose sweeping curbs on LGBTQ rights.
The bill, adopted on Tuesday, would provide a legal basis for authorities to outlaw Pride events and public displays of the LGBTQ rainbow flag, and to impose censorship of films and books.
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end of listIt also bans gender transition, adoption by gay and gender non-conforming people, and nullifies queer marriages performed abroad on Georgian territory.
In a vote boycotted by the contradiction, politicians from the verdict Georgian Dream voted 84 to 0 to endorse the bill along with related amendments to a number of other laws.
Leaders of the governing Georgian Dream party say it is needed to safeguard “traditional moral standards” in