IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1209 
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 
JUNE 28, 2022 
Ms. JAYAPAL (for herself, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. NEWMAN, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. 
TORRES of New York, Ms. ADAMS, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. BASS, Mr. BLU-
MENAUER, Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. BOWMAN, Mr. 
BROWN of Maryland, Ms. BROWN of Ohio, Ms. BROWNLEY, Ms. BUSH, 
Mr. CA´RDENAS, Mr. CARSON, Mr. CASTEN, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Ms. 
CHU, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. CON-
NOLLY, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. DEAN, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. 
DESAULNIER, Mr. DOGGETT, Ms. ESCOBAR, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. EVANS, 
Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. GREEN of 
Texas, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, Ms. 
JACKSON LEE, Ms. JACOBS of California, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. 
JONES, Mr. KEATING, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. KUSTER, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. 
LARSON of Connecticut, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. 
LEGER FERNANDEZ, Mr. LEVIN of Michigan, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. 
LYNCH, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Ms. MENG, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. NADLER, Mrs. 
NAPOLITANO, Ms. NORTON, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. OMAR, Mr. PA-
NETTA, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. PINGREE, Ms. PORTER, Ms. PRESSLEY, Mr. 
QUIGLEY, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SMITH of 
Washington, Mr. SOTO, Ms. SPEIER, Ms. STEVENS, Ms. TITUS, Ms. 
TLAIB, Mr. TONKO, Mrs. TRAHAN, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mrs. WATSON 
COLEMAN, Mr. WELCH, Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, and Ms. WILSON of 
Florida) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Edu-
cation and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and Over-
sight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction 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 1,400,000 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 ex-
perience discrimination in medical care, employment, 
housing, education, lending, and other basic necessities; 
Whereas the right of transgender and nonbinary people to 
seek lifesaving, gender-affirming care and counseling is 
under threat across the Nation; 
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; and 
Whereas transgender and nonbinary people detained in jails, 
prisons, and immigration detention centers are especially 
vulnerable to violence and abuse and are often deprived 
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of gender-affirming supplies and care: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) it is the duty of the Federal Government to 
protect the rights of transgender and nonbinary peo-
ple 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 
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-
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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 
that best align with their gender iden-
tity; and 
(II) use school facilities that best 
align with their gender identity; 
(B) 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 
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 
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basis of gender identity or sex characteris-
tics; 
(iii) codifying the Housing and Urban 
Development Department’s Equal Access 
Rule requiring equal access to HUD hous-
ing programs without regard to a person’s 
actual or perceived gender identity; and 
(iv) 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; 
(C) 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 
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and counseling for transgender and non-
binary adults, adolescents, and children; 
(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) expanding access to providers 
with competency serving transgender and 
nonbinary patients, including by recruiting 
and training more health care providers to 
provide appropriate care; 
(v) codifying Roe v. Wade, guaran-
teeing the right to abortion, and codifying 
the right to reproductive health care such 
as birth control and fertility treatments for 
everyone, including transgender and non-
binary people; and 
(vi) banning the use of forced surgery 
that violates medical ethics and human 
rights on intersex children and infants; 
(D) providing accessible avenues for legal 
recognition of transgender and nonbinary iden-
tities by— 
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(i) eliminating gender identification 
requirements on government documents 
that are unnecessary to determine the 
identity of the holder or otherwise irrele-
vant to the purpose of the document; 
(ii) eliminating burdensome barriers 
to updating sex and names on passports, 
Social Security cards, and other forms of 
government identification and records, per-
mitting, where possible, changes on self-at-
testation alone; 
(iii) requiring that an ‘‘X’’ marker be 
available on government identification and 
records that still require gender; and 
(iv) eliminating the Federal require-
ment to list a gender on State identifica-
tion; 
(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 appro-
priate 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 
Division of the Department of Justice 
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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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