Question:
“What are the laws in my state about transgender rights and healthcare?”
There is an amazing array of laws, regulations, and policies that impact transgender people and their families at the federal, state, and local level. These policies are constantly being changed by the government or new guidance on their implementation, interpretation, or enforcement is being issued. As of July 13, 2025, 948 bills specifically targeting transgender people were proposed in state legislatures across the country. Only a handful (118, as of 7/13/25) of these were passed.
All of this makes it quite difficult to stay up to date on what is happening around the entire nation. Luckily there are many organizations who track this information and share it publicly.
To figure out what is happening where you live or work
The Movement Advancement Project
MAP is an excellent place to start to understand the laws currently in place in your state or territory.
MAP provides:
- State level LGBTQ+ information on a variety of laws
- State level information on democracy and rights generally
- Policy guidance and analysis
- Explanations of why various laws matter and their impact on LGBTQ+ communities
- Toolkits to explain and connect multiple issues
Erin in the Morning Trans Risk Assessment Map
https://www.erininthemorning.com/
Erin Reed and her colleagues track state legislation in all 50 states each legislative session. Monthly she updates her Trans Risk Assessment Map to create a broad state by state picture of the harmful legislation in each state. The most updated map can be found at the top of her website.
Legislation tracking
Several individuals and organizations track proposed legislation.
Erin in the Morning
https://www.erininthemorning.com/
Erin Reed writes a newsletter with information and analysis throughout the legislative session. She tracks the vast majority of transgender focused bills that are proposed throughout the United States in state legislatures. The newsletter also provides detailed analysis on a number of different events.
The Trans Formations Project
https://www.transformationsproject.org/
The Trans Formations Project is a volunteer run group that tracks transgender focused state legislation.
The Equality Federation
https://www.equalityfederation.org/state-legislation-tracker
Equality Federation tracks LGBTQ state and national pending legislation. Equality Federation is a non-partisan group that tracks helpful and harmful legislation. Their tracker is sortable by state as well as type of bill.
Additional state by state resources
States have a vast array of laws and policies that affect the lives of trans/nonbinary survivors. These include laws that are not trans specific. It can be helpful to track multiple types of bills during legislative session.
Local and state-based policy advocacy groups often have newsletters that share legislation important to their causes. Consider signing up for a variety of lists – anti-racism groups, reproductive rights, LGBTQ groups, economic justice groups, and pro-democracy groups all will likely track legislation that impacts survivors in some way. For example, funding affordable housing, voter rights, and privacy laws all can make a big difference in survivors’ lives.
If you work for an agency, consider having a couple people compile and share out relevant data on a regular basis – that way each staff person doesn’t have to read through everything. Having multiple people work on this project can help ensure that a wider variety of information is shared and may ease the workload.
If sharing information about pending legislation, be sure to be clear that it is not passed into law at this time. Organizations may want to make contingency plans for if certain bills pass, but there is no need to change services in advance.
The American Bar Association Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence has created guidance for coalitions on communicating about pending and passed legislation.