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AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/28/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections

Judiciary and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 1095 prohibits physicians and other health professionals from providing gender transition
  • The bill further prohibits public monies from being used directly or indirectly for gender transition
  • This is a total ban on all kinds of gender transition care for minors.
  • This is a total ban on all kinds of gender transition care for minors.
  • This is a total ban on all kinds of gender transition care for minors.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/22/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Finally the Finally, the bill prohibits access. provides gender transition procedures to a minor.
  • I think that when I look at the definition of gender transition procedure, it's primarily conditioned
  • I think that when I look at the definition of gender transition procedure, it's primarily conditioned
  • Broadly, a gender transition in total...
  • of gender management has become... ...how the transition of gender management has become so misguided
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/16/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 1095, effective April 1, 2027, establishes prohibitions on gender transition procedures and
  • who are not trying to transition...
  • who are not trying to transition, trying to transition would not be allowed testosterone but children
  • I myself went through a so-called gender transition, being prescribed Lupron to halt my puberty and testosterone
  • transition.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education May 15th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 2920 includes a minor transition treatment ban, providing clear legal authority for schools
  • closes a loophole in the Texas Education Code by making it clear that anabolic steroids prescribed for gender
  • transition in minors are not a valid medical exemption.
Bills: SB226 , SB413 , SB571 , SB1049 , SB2398 , SB2920
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/26

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • ,</c><00:52:25.360><c> has</c> ends up having to go into surgery, has ends up having to go into surgery
  • This right increases the risk of abuse for youth like Sage Blair, a female who struggled with gender
  • distress and under struggled with gender distress and under horrible<01:19:57.880><c> circumstances<
  • So, our intent with and gender identity.
  • A child should be wrapped up with affirming support, regardless of their gender identity, regardless
Bills: HF3877 , HF3714 , HF3750 , HF3024
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Government Oversight Feb 26th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Government Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • surgeries.
  • transition.
  • transition surgery for minors.
  • To be clear, gender transition procedures are an atrocity.
  • transition procedures, which are an atrocity.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services Oversight REVISED: SB1304 - Added Apr 15th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Health and Human Services Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • we are allowing the seven-day acute prescriptions that that that we allow for acute injuries or surgeries
  • so it in and so we've bypassed going on past 3 and7 I think doctors would much rather for small surgeries
  • ICU beds, how many inpatient beds, how many surgery beds.
  • And that we're looking at a transition period after that being done by an agency that can't figure out
  • possibly, even at some point, those could be combined into one database instead of just, you know, surgery
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/18/2026 - House Judiciary

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • reassignment surgery from a physician in violation of Arizona law.
  • reassignment surgery for minors.
  • But we already have a ban on surgery like this in statute.
  • I myself have had gender-confirming surgery, and the process took over a year, and I had to get a therapist
  • Arizona law already prohibits doctors from performing irreversible gender reassignment surgery on children
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education May 13th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • There is a section on gender identity, and it says the school district or charter may not.
  • But not based on race; it's based on gender. I know there's been work on this committee.
  • ...decision based on race, if you do have a recruitment program that is based on gender and race.
  • It's based on gender and race, that kind of thing, that would be banned under the bill.
  • Girlhood is powerful, and so much growth happens with gender-specific programming.
Bills: SB12 , SB226 , SB413 , SB1049 , SB1191 , SB2398 , SB571 , SB2920 , SB 12
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Mar 25th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Transitional classes, which is.
  • So we're offering you know a pullout, a transition class, both as options.
  • You probably can't build a transitional program.
  • That's what the transition plan will do.
  • pretty much stay intact until they start the transition, and one of the things that the transition and
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections Jan 23rd, 2026 at 10:30 am

State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • proposed substitute labeled C allows veterans to claim the veterans' civil service preference when transitioning
  • Some of the demographic categories we have to collect are race and ethnicity, gender, veteran status,
  • County has an open public dashboard where you can search the demographic information for, you know, gender
  • We don't receive very many requests for, you know, gender and race of the workforce of Pierce County.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections Jan 16th, 2026 at 10:30 am

State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • of service if the reason for discharge was listed solely due to the person's sexual orientation, gender
  • identity, or gender expression.
  • We advocate on behalf of workers in the clean energy transition.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Governmental Oversight and Accountability Feb 2nd, 2026

Governmental Oversight and Accountability

Transcript Highlights:
  • administration, overseeing and coordinating transition planning, creating a transition directory that
  • transition period.
  • identity, or gender expression be prohibited.
  • identity, or gender expression.
  • identity, or gender expression.
Bills: S0330 , S0526 , S0862 , S1072 , S1078 , S1192 , S1250 , S1296 , S1298 , S1642 , S1698 , S7022
Summary: The committee took up several bills and one set of confirmations. SB 330, relating to disability provisions for firefighters, law enforcement, and correctional officers, was explained as clarifying the heart disease presumption and allowing transferred law enforcement officers to rely on a prior physical if the new agency fails to provide one; it was reported favorably. SB 526, a broad commercial construction bill, was amended with a title amendment and a delete-all amendment before being reported favorably. SB 1192 created a pilot program for callback queues at certain executive agencies to reduce hold times, and it was also reported favorably. SB 1078 established gubernatorial transition procedures, including liaisons, briefing materials, office space, and access to records; an amendment narrowed and reassigned some duties and increased penalties for improper disclosure, and the bill passed favorably. SB 7022 extended and updated a public records exemption for classroom examinations and assessment instruments through 2031, and it was reported favorably. SB 1250 removed the Florida Commission on Human Relations’ requirement to use registered mail for certain notices, allowing less expensive notice methods, and it passed favorably. SB 1698 allowed certain employer notices and posters to be posted electronically instead of physically, and it was reported favorably. The committee also recommended confirmation of 10 appointees to the Florida Commission on Human Relations and the State Retirement Commission. SB 1072 created an anti-Semitism task force within the Attorney General’s Office of Civil Rights to review anti-Semitism in Florida, improve community relations, advise on law enforcement training, assess digital media literacy efforts, review hate crime statutes, and issue annual reports. The bill drew extensive public testimony, with many speakers opposing it on First Amendment, academic freedom, and equal-protection grounds and arguing it could chill criticism of Israel or be used selectively; supporters said it was needed to address rising anti-Semitism and that the state’s definition of anti-Semitism had already been adopted in statute. After debate, the bill was reported favorably. SB 862, as amended, set a $60,000 salary goal by 2030 for state correctional officers, probation officers, and institutional security specialists, with annual raises subject to appropriations; members questioned a separate provision allowing deployment of correctional officers during emergencies, including whether that could intersect with immigration enforcement, but the sponsor said he would follow up and that the bill was aimed at recruitment, retention, and workforce stability. The bill received support from law enforcement and corrections groups and was reported favorably. SB 1642, the Freedom in the Workplace Act, generated the most contentious discussion: it would bar certain pronoun-related requirements, prohibit mandatory training or activities related to sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression as a condition of employment, require sex on employment forms to reflect biological sex, and extend similar protections to public employees and contractors. Supporters framed it as protecting free speech, conscience, and against compelled speech; opponents argued it would authorize discrimination against transgender and nonbinary people, invite litigation, and harm workplace safety and inclusion. An amendment moved the bill into the chapter governing public employers and employees, and the bill was then reported favorably.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/28/2026 - House Judiciary

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Black federal hate crime laws to include gender identity. That's a conversation to be had as well.
  • Bill 2440 allows the Department of Corrections to grant inmates a one-time 90-day extension of transition
  • services provides an updated transition plan.
  • services provides an updated transition plan.
  • So the problem this bill is trying to solve is currently prisoner transition programs are limited by