IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1058 
Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and 
implement a Transgender Bill of Rights to protect and codify the rights 
of transgender and nonbinary people under the law and ensure their 
access to medical care, shelter, safety, and economic security. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 11, 2026 
Ms. JAYAPAL (for herself, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. JACOBS, Mr. AMO, Ms. ANSARI, 
Ms. BALINT, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. BELL, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms. BROWNLEY, 
Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. CARSON, Mr. CASAR, Mr. CASTEN, Ms. CHU, Mr. 
CISNEROS, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. DEAN 
of Pennsylvania, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. DESAULNIER, Ms. 
DEXTER, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. EVANS of Pennsylvania, 
Mrs. FLETCHER, Mrs. FOUSHEE, Mr. FROST, Mr. GARAMENDI, Ms. GAR-
CIA of Texas, Mr. GARCIA of California, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Mr. 
GOLDMAN of New York, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. GREEN of Texas, Mrs. GRI-
JALVA, Mr. IVEY, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE, Mr. 
KEATING, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. LEE 
of Pennsylvania, Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ, Mr. LIEU, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. 
LYNCH, Ms. MATSUI, Ms. MCBRIDE, Mrs. MCCLAIN DELANEY, Ms. 
MCCLELLAN, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. MCGARVEY, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mrs. 
MCIVER, Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. MENG, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. 
MOULTON, Mr. MULLIN, Mr. NADLER, Ms. NORTON, Ms. OCASIO-COR-
TEZ, Ms. OMAR, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. PETERS, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. POCAN, 
Ms. PRESSLEY, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Ms. RANDALL, Mr. 
RASKIN, Ms. RIVAS, Ms. ROSS, Ms. SALINAS, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Ms. SCAN-
LON, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. SIMON, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Ms. 
STANSBURY, Mr. THANEDAR, Ms. TITUS, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. 
TONKO, Mr. TORRES of New York, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. VARGAS, Ms. 
VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. WALKINSHAW, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. WILSON 
of Florida, and Ms. BROWN) submitted the following resolution; which 
was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the 
Committees on Education and Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Finan-
cial Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services, Vet-
erans’ Affairs, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
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•HRES 1058 IH 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government 
to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights 
to protect and codify the rights of transgender and non-
binary people under the law and ensure their access 
to medical care, shelter, safety, and economic security. 
Whereas an estimated 1,600,000 transgender adults live in 
the United States; 
Whereas title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 
2000e et seq.) requires equal treatment under the law re-
gardless of sex; 
Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed in 
Bostock v. Clayton County, 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020) that 
Federal protection against discrimination on the basis of 
sex includes protection from discrimination on the basis 
of sexual orientation and gender identity; 
Whereas several Federal courts have correctly concluded that 
discrimination against transgender people because of 
their sex and gender identity violates title IX of the Edu-
cation Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.), 
section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18116), and the Fourteenth Amend-
ment to the Constitution of the United States; 
Whereas, despite the protections against discrimination on 
the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, 
transgender people still experience discrimination in— 
(1) medical care; 
(2) employment; 
(3) housing; 
(4) education; 
(5) lending; and 
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•HRES 1058 IH 
(6) other basic necessities; 
Whereas President Trump has issued several executive orders 
that 
attempt 
to 
unlawfully 
discriminate 
against 
transgender people; 
Whereas anti-trans individuals strive to deprive transgender 
and nonbinary people of access to gender affirming care, 
despite the overwhelming consensus of the medical com-
munity that gender-affirming care is essential, safe, and 
life-saving health care; 
Whereas the provision of best-practice, age-appropriate, gen-
der-affirming health care is endorsed by the American 
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Amer-
ican Academy of Family Physicians, the American Acad-
emy of Nursing, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the 
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the 
American College of Physicians, the American Counseling 
Association, the American Heart Association, the Amer-
ican Medical Association, the American Nurses Associa-
tion, the American Osteopathic Association, the American 
Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological As-
sociation, the American Public Health Association, the 
Endocrine Society, the National Association of Nurse 
Practitioners in Women’s Health, the Pediatric Endo-
crine Society, the Society for Adolescent Health and 
Medicine, the World Medical Association, and the World 
Professional Association for Transgender Health; 
Whereas transgender and nonbinary people— 
(1) face significant barriers to legal recognition of 
their truest selves on government-issued documentation 
and identification that reflects their gender; 
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(2) experience disproportionately high rates of pov-
erty, homelessness, violence, and suicide due to discrimi-
nation and persecution; and 
(3) are especially vulnerable to violence and abuse 
and are often deprived of gender-affirming resources and 
health care while detained in jails, prisons, and immigra-
tion detention centers; and 
Whereas transgender and nonbinary people— 
(1) make unique, valuable contributions to American 
society and culture worth honoring and celebrating; 
(2) have existed throughout history across the globe, 
demonstrating resilience, bravery, and authenticity; and 
(3) are parents, siblings, children, chosen family, 
and friends deserving of human dignity and support: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) the Federal Government has a duty to pro-
tect the rights of transgender and nonbinary people 
by implementing a ‘‘Transgender Bill of Rights’’ 
that includes— 
(A) ensuring that transgender and non-
binary people have equal access to services and 
public accommodations that align with their 
gender identity by— 
(i) amending the Civil Rights Act of 
1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000a et seq.) to prohibit 
discrimination on the basis of sex, includ-
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•HRES 1058 IH 
ing gender identity and sex characteristics, 
in public accommodations and federally 
funded programs and activities; 
(ii) expanding the definition of public 
accommodation to address the full range of 
places and services that members of the 
general public utilize; 
(iii) explicitly clarifying that it is ille-
gal to discriminate on the basis of sex, in-
cluding gender identity or sex characteris-
tics, in public accommodations and services 
on religious grounds; and 
(iv) amending Federal law to ensure 
that it protects students from discrimina-
tion based on sex, including gender iden-
tity and sex characteristics, thus guaran-
teeing the right of students to participate, 
free from discrimination, including harass-
ment and sexual violence, in all areas of 
school 
life, 
including 
in 
classes, 
extracurriculars (including athletics), ac-
cess to facilities, and other school activi-
ties; 
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•HRES 1058 IH 
(B) clarifying and reaffirming the right to 
bodily 
autonomy 
and 
health 
care 
for 
transgender and nonbinary people by— 
(i) enforcing prohibitions against dis-
crimination in the provision of health care 
on the basis of sex, including on the basis 
of actual or perceived gender identity or 
sex characteristics; 
(ii) eliminating unnecessary govern-
mental restrictions on the provision of, and 
access to, gender-affirming medical care 
and counseling for transgender and non-
binary adults and adolescents; 
(iii) ensuring that health care pro-
viders that follow recognized standards of 
care for transgender and nonbinary people 
are not targeted for criminal or civil pen-
alties, or for professional discipline; 
(iv) protecting children against force-
ful removal from supportive homes; 
(v) protecting providers of gender-af-
firming care, reproductive health care, and 
abortion health care from threats and acts 
of violence related to their work; 
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(vi) expanding access to competent 
health care providers serving transgender 
and nonbinary patients, including by re-
cruiting and training more health care pro-
viders to provide appropriate care; 
(vii) expanding telehealth access to 
provide patients in rural and other under-
served locations better access to health 
care services; 
(viii) codifying the right to abortion 
and reproductive health care, such as con-
traceptives and assistive reproductive tech-
nology, for everyone, including transgender 
and nonbinary people; 
(ix) banning the performing of non-
consensual surgeries that violate medical 
ethics and the human rights of intersex 
children and infants; 
(x) banning conversion practices and 
other abusive and torturous pseudo-med-
ical treatments that are overwhelmingly re-
jected by every major medical organization 
as lacking efficacy and carrying significant 
risks of harm; 
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(xi) protecting providers of gender-af-
firming care from specious consumer and 
medical fraud accusations based on their 
provision of medically necessary care; and 
(xii) ensuring that the Sexual & Gen-
der Minority Research Office of the Na-
tional Institutes of Health is re-opened and 
remains operational; 
(C) ensuring transgender and nonbinary 
people can care for themselves and their fami-
lies by fully codifying the judgment of the Su-
preme Court in Bostock v. Clayton County, 140 
S. Ct. 1731 (2020) by— 
(i) eliminating hiring and employment 
discrimination and workforce exclusion by 
amending title VII of the Civil Rights Act 
of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.) to ex-
plicitly clarify that employers may not dis-
criminate on the basis of actual or per-
ceived gender identity or sex characteris-
tics; 
(ii) amending the Fair Housing Act 
(42 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.) to explicitly clar-
ify that it prohibits all forms of sex dis-
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•HRES 1058 IH 
crimination, including on the basis of gen-
der identity or sex characteristics; and 
(iii) amending the Equal Credit Op-
portunity Act (15 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.) to 
explicitly clarify that it prohibits all forms 
of sex discrimination, including on the 
basis of gender identity or sex characteris-
tics; 
(D) providing accessible avenues for legal 
recognition of transgender and nonbinary iden-
tities and guaranteeing full participation in civil 
life by— 
(i) eliminating Federal gender identi-
fication requirements on government docu-
ments that are unnecessary to determine 
the identity of the holder or are otherwise 
irrelevant to the purpose of the document; 
(ii) eliminating burdensome barriers 
to, or prohibitions on, updating sex and 
names on passports, Social Security cards, 
and other forms of Federal Government 
identification 
and 
records, 
permitting, 
where possible, changes on self-attestation 
alone; 
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•HRES 1058 IH 
(iii) requiring that an ‘‘X’’ marker be 
available on Federal Government identi-
fication and records that require gender; 
(iv) requiring States to permit voters 
to update their name and gender on their 
voter registration and vote on the same 
day of Federal elections; 
(v) making explicit that existing Fed-
eral statutes prohibiting sex discrimination 
in jury service also prohibit discrimination 
based on gender identity and sex charac-
teristics; 
(vi) eliminating anti-trans bias in the 
immigration system, including the asylum 
process, by requiring culturally competent 
training for adjudicators and ensuring that 
gender identity and sex characteristics are 
not used to the detriment of individuals in 
immigration proceedings; 
(vii) ensuring that dedicated and ca-
pable 
transgender 
and 
nonbinary 
servicemembers can continue to serve 
proudly and openly in the Armed Forces; 
(viii) requiring the TRICARE pro-
gram (as defined in section 1072 of title 
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10, United States Code) and the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs to pay for gen-
der-affirming health care; and 
(ix) requiring a review of military dis-
charges for transgender and nonbinary vet-
erans, and reclassification of discharge sta-
tus and code, to ensure the patriotism and 
sacrifices of transgender and nonbinary 
servicemembers is respected above partisan 
politics; 
(E) 
strengthening 
the 
safety 
of 
transgender and nonbinary people by— 
(i) investing in community services to 
prevent intimate partner, family, and com-
munity violence against transgender and 
nonbinary people and expand services for 
transgender and nonbinary survivors; 
(ii) investing in mental health services 
and suicide prevention programs designed 
for transgender and nonbinary people; 
(iii) ensuring robust regulations and 
procedures that affirm that claims for im-
migration relief or asylum based on perse-
cution related to gender, sexual orienta-
tion, gender identity, and sex characteris-
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tics are protected grounds in the context of 
asylum adjudications; 
(iv) ensuring housing assignments for 
transgender and nonbinary people in gov-
ernment custody are based on their safety 
needs and providing individual housing de-
terminations that incorporate assessments 
by qualified caseworkers and the assess-
ment of the individual of their safety 
needs; 
(v) prohibiting involuntary solitary or 
administrative 
confinement 
of 
a 
transgender or nonbinary individual be-
cause of their gender identity; and 
(vi) exploring policies and practices 
that improve the safety of transgender and 
nonbinary individuals incarcerated in jails, 
prisons, and immigration detention facili-
ties and ensuring that those populations of 
transgender and nonbinary individuals 
have access to gender-affirming care, ap-
propriate services, and commissary items 
consistent with their gender identity; and 
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(F) actively enforcing the civil rights of 
transgender and nonbinary people by all gov-
ernment agencies including by— 
(i) requiring the Attorney General to 
designate a liaison within the Civil Rights 
Division of the Department of Justice 
whose job is dedicated to advising on and 
overseeing enforcement of the civil rights 
of transgender and nonbinary people; and 
(ii) appropriating the funds necessary 
to fully staff and support the enforcement 
of these rights across agencies; 
(2) to carry out the goals in this resolution, 
Federal agencies must collect gender identity and 
sex characteristics information on a voluntary, con-
fidential basis solely for equity and public health 
purposes in key Federal surveys; 
(3) the Federal Government must make an on-
going commitment to the rights of transgender and 
nonbinary people; 
(4) policies concerning transgender rights must 
be led and informed by transgender communities, in 
particular Black and Indigenous women who face 
heightened risk of violence, poverty, discrimination, 
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•HRES 1058 IH 
and other harm due to their intersecting identities; 
and 
(5) the actions listed in this resolution are only 
the first steps toward transgender equality. 
Æ 
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