Prohibits state-funded employers from requiring training on gender identity as a condition of employment and bars adverse actions against employees for beliefs against gender ideology, while defining gender identity negatively and limiting pronoun use and nonbinary options on forms, so less legal or
It is an unlawful employment practice for an employer who receives funding from the state to require, as a condition of employment, any training, instruction, or other activity on sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
Creates state policy that sex is immutable and pronouns not matching sex are false, prohibits requiring employees/contractors to use preferred pronouns that do not correspond to sex, bars requiring employers to use such pronouns, limits job forms to male/female options only, and protects against 'ad
It is the policy of this state that a person’s sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to ascribe to a person a pronoun that does not correspond to such person’s sex.
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Governor
Law
Status: Failed
Last action
2026-03-13: Died in Judiciary
Filed
2026-01-09
Sponsor
Governmental Oversight and Accountability, Stan McClain R
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill substantively addresses transgender issues by restricting recognition of and accommodations for gender identity in public employment contexts, including bans on compelled pronoun use, limits on nonbinary options, negative statutory definitions of gender identity and ideology, prohibition of related mandatory training, and protections for opposing beliefs. No provisions address firearms, abortion, or immigration enforcement.