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Legal/Policy Updates
Biden Administration – The Bad News: The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services issued statements in support of "Transgender Day of Visibility", which coincided with Easter Sunday.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) attempted to require all US prisons to provide inmates with "gender-affirming care" (GAC), and ordered Utah's Department of Corrections to reverse its policy of denying cross-sex hormones to a female-identifying male inmate. It is not clear what action DOJ would take if Utah fails to comply.
Congress – The Good News: Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill that would prevent the Department of Health and Human Services from implementing a controversial rule that would force foster families to endorse children's LGBT identification.
Courts – The Good: Sixteen female college athletes, including Riley Gaines, filed a class-action lawsuit against the NCAA over its policy of allowing female-identifying men to compete in women's categories.
The Bad: The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from the Indiana couple whose female-identifying son was removed from their home by the state, in spite of the lack of abuse or neglect.
The family of a middle school boy who identifies as female sued a Wisconsin school district for prohibiting him from using girls' bathrooms.
States – The Good: Idaho's legislature advanced a bill that would prohibit the use of state funds to pay for GAC.
Kansas's legislature advanced a bill that would prohibit GAC for minors.
Mississippi's legislature advanced a bill that would define terms such as "male", "female", "man", and "woman" according to biological sex for the purposes of the state's sex-based legal distinctions.
New Hampshire's legislature advanced a bill that would require school athletes to participate according to biological sex.
Texas became the eighth state to enact age verifcation laws causing Pornhub and other harmful websites to cease all operations in state.
Wyoming became the 24th state to prohibit "gender-affirming care" (GAC) for minors.
The Bad: The Connecticut Senate introduced a resolution to expand the state constitution's definition of discrimination to include "preventing, initiating, continuing or terminating a pregnancy; sexual orientation; gender identity and expression; and related health care."
Michigan passed a law legalizing paid surrogacy, leaving Nebraska and Louisiana as the only two states banning this harmful practice.
The governor of Wisconsin vetoed a bill that would have banned female-identifying boys from participating in high school girls' sports.
International – The Good: A paper published by 26 academics in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports found that female-identifying male athletes with suppressed testosterone levels still retained an unfair advantage over female athletes. The paper also called on the International Olympic Committee to tighten its eligibility criteria for participation in women's sports accordingly.
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