IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 269 
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 
MARCH 30, 2023 
Ms. JAYAPAL (for herself, Ms. JACOBS, Mr. POCAN, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. 
CICILLINE, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. ALLRED, Ms. BALINT, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. 
BLUMENAUER, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. BOWMAN, Ms. BROWN, Ms. BUSH, 
Mr. CARSON, Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, Mr. CASAR, Mr. CASTEN, Ms. 
CASTOR of Florida, Ms. CHU, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. CONNOLLY, 
Ms. CROCKETT, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania, Ms. 
DEGETTE, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. DOGGETT, Ms. ESCOBAR, Ms. ESHOO, 
Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. EVANS, Mrs. FLETCHER, Mr. FROST, Mr. 
GARAMENDI, Ms. GARCIA of Texas, Mr. ROBERT GARCIA of California, 
Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. GREEN of Texas, Mr. GRIJALVA, 
Mrs. HAYES, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, Mr. IVEY, Ms. JACKSON LEE, 
Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE, Mr. KEATING, Mr. 
KHANNA, Mr. KILMER, Mr. KIM of New Jersey, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, 
Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. LEE of 
California, Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ, Mr. LIEU, Mr. LYNCH, Ms. MATSUI, 
Mrs. MCCLELLAN, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. MCGARVEY, Mr. MCGOVERN, 
Ms. MENG, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. MULLIN, Mr. 
NADLER, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. NORTON, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. 
OMAR, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. PINGREE, Ms. PORTER, Ms. 
PRESSLEY, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. ROSS, Ms. SALINAS, Ms. 
SA´NCHEZ, Ms. SCANLON, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. SMITH of 
Washington, Ms. STANSBURY, Ms. STEVENS, Mr. THANEDAR, Ms. TITUS, 
Ms. TLAIB, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. TONKO, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. TRONE, Mr. 
VARGAS, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mrs. WATSON 
COLEMAN, Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, and Ms. WILSON of Florida) sub-
mitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the 
Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and Oversight and 
Accountability, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
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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 requires 
equal treatment under the law regardless of sex; 
Whereas the Supreme Court affirmed in Bostock v. Clayton 
County that Federal protection against discrimination on 
the basis of sex includes protection from discrimination 
on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity; 
Whereas, despite these protections, transgender people still 
experience discrimination in medical care, employment, 
housing, education, lending, and other basic necessities; 
Whereas State lawmakers introduced more than 300 bills at-
tacking the rights of LGBTQI+ people and transgender 
people in particular in the first 6 weeks of 2023; 
Whereas the right of transgender and nonbinary people to 
seek lifesaving, gender-affirming care is under threat 
across the Nation; 
Whereas the provision of best-practice age-appropriate gen-
der-affirming health care is endorsed by— 
(1) the American Academy of Child and Adolescent 
Psychiatry; 
(2) the American Academy of Family Physicians; 
(3) the American Academy of Nursing; 
(4) the American Academy of Pediatrics; 
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(5) the American College of Obstetricians and Gyne-
cologists; 
(6) the American College of Physicians; 
(7) the American Counseling Association; 
(8) the American Heart Association; 
(9) the American Medical Association; 
(10) the American Nurses Association; 
(11) the American Osteopathic Association; 
(12) the American Psychiatric Association; 
(13) the American Psychological Association; 
(14) the American Public Health Association; 
(15) the American Society of Plastic Surgeons; 
(16) the Endocrine Society; 
(17) the National Association of Nurse Practitioners 
in Women’s Health; 
(18) the Pediatric Endocrine Society; 
(19) the Society for Adolescent Health and Medi-
cine; 
(20) the World Medical Association; and 
(21) 
the 
World 
Professional 
Association 
for 
Transgender Health; 
Whereas transgender and nonbinary people face significant 
barriers to legal recognition of their truest selves on gov-
ernment documentation and identification; 
Whereas transgender and nonbinary people experience dis-
proportionately high rates of poverty, homelessness, vio-
lence, and suicide; 
Whereas transgender and nonbinary people detained in jails, 
prisons, and immigration detention centers are especially 
vulnerable to violence and abuse and are often deprived 
of gender-affirming resources and health care; 
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Whereas transgender people make unique, valuable contribu-
tions to American society and culture worth honoring and 
celebrating; 
Whereas transgender people have existed throughout history 
across the globe, demonstrating resilience, bravery, and 
authenticity; and 
Whereas transgender people 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 
as outlined in this Transgender Bill of Rights by— 
(A) ensuring transgender and nonbinary 
people have equal access to services and public 
accommodations that align with their gender 
identity by— 
(i) amending the Civil Rights Act of 
1964 to prohibit discrimination on the 
basis of sex, including gender identity and 
sex characteristics in public accommoda-
tions and federally funded programs and 
activities; 
(ii) expanding the definition of public 
accommodation to address the full range of 
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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 education laws 
to ensure that they protect students from 
discrimination based on sex, including gen-
der identity and sex characteristics, and 
guarantee students’ right to— 
(I) participate in sports on teams 
and in programs that best align with 
their gender identity; 
(II) use school facilities that best 
align with their gender identity; 
(III) have their authentic identity 
respected in the classroom; and 
(IV) have access to curriculum 
and books that accurately portray the 
substantive history and identity of 
LGBTQ+ people and Black, Indige-
nous, and people of color; 
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(B) recognizing the right to bodily auton-
omy and ethical health care for transgender and 
nonbinary people by— 
(i) strengthening, implementing, and 
enforcing prohibitions on discrimination in 
the provision of health care on the basis of 
sex, including on the basis of actual or per-
ceived gender identity or sex characteris-
tics; 
(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 youth; 
(iii) ensuring that health care pro-
viders following standards of care for 
transgender and nonbinary people are not 
targeted for criminal or civil penalties or 
professional discipline; 
(iv) protecting children from forceful 
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 providers 
with competency serving transgender and 
nonbinary patients, including by recruiting 
and training more health care providers 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 Roe v. Wade, guaran-
teeing the right to abortion, and codifying 
the right to reproductive health care such 
as contraceptives and assistive reproductive 
technology 
for 
everyone, 
including 
transgender and nonbinary people; and 
(ix) banning the use of forced surgery 
that violates medical ethics and human 
rights on intersex children and infants; 
(C) ensuring transgender and nonbinary 
people can care for themselves and their fami-
lies by fully codifying the Bostock decision by— 
(i) eliminating hiring and employment 
discrimination and workforce exclusion by 
amending title VII of the Civil Rights Act 
of 1964 to explicitly clarify that employers 
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may not discriminate on the basis of actual 
or perceived gender identity or sex charac-
teristics; 
(ii) amending the Fair Housing Act to 
explicitly clarify that it prohibits all forms 
of sex discrimination, including on the 
basis of gender identity or sex characteris-
tics; and 
(iii) amending the Equal Credit Op-
portunity Act to explicitly clarify that it 
prohibits all forms of sex discrimination, 
including on the basis of gender identity or 
sex characteristics; 
(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 otherwise ir-
relevant to the purpose of the document; 
(ii) eliminating burdensome barriers 
to updating sex and names on passports, 
Social Security cards, and other forms of 
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Federal Government identification and 
records, 
permitting, 
where 
possible, 
changes on self-attestation alone; 
(iii) requiring that an ‘‘X’’ marker be 
available on Federal Government identi-
fication and records that still require gen-
der; 
(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; and 
(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; 
(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; 
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(ii) investing in mental health services 
and suicide prevention programs designed 
for transgender and nonbinary people; 
(iii) banning fraudulent and harmful 
so-called ‘‘conversion therapy’’ practices; 
(iv) 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-
tics are protected grounds in the context of 
asylum adjudications; and 
(v) exploring policies and practices 
that 
would 
improve 
the 
safety 
of 
transgender and nonbinary individuals in-
carcerated in jails, prisons, and immigra-
tion detention facilities and ensure that 
those populations have access to gender-af-
firming care, appropriate services, and 
commissary items; and 
(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 
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Division of the Department of Justice 
dedicated to advising on and overseeing en-
forcement 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) the actions listed above are only the first 
steps toward transgender equality; 
(3) to carry out the goals above, Federal agen-
cies must collect gender identity and sex characteris-
tics information on a voluntary, confidential basis 
solely for equity and public health purposes in key 
Federal surveys; 
(4) the Federal Government must make an on-
going commitment to the rights of transgender and 
nonbinary people; and 
(5) 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, 
and other harm due to their intersecting identities. 
Æ 
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