Transgender in Texas
Measured against: legal recognition of, and access to services and facilities for, transgender people.
59 bills · Transgender in every state · All Texas topics
This week
3 bills with new action · 3 newly filed.
Furthest along first.
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Relating to a criminal offense committed against a person because of bias or prejudice on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
AI summary Adds 'gender identity' to the list of protected characteristics for hate crime sentence enhancements, so bias or prejudice against transgender people is more likely to result in enhanced penalties for crimes against them.
otherStage: Filed Nov 9: Filed -
Relating to the prohibition of certain discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression; providing an administrative penalty.
AI summary Adds 'gender identity or expression' to multiple anti-discrimination statutes covering public accommodations, employment, housing, and state contractors, so more legal protections and recognition for transgender people.
otherStage: Filed Nov 9: Filed -
Relating to a task force to study the legal and societal barriers to equality for transgender persons.
AI summary Establishes a task force to study and recommend ways to advance transgender equality in areas including healthcare, education, housing, employment and criminal justice, so more legal recognition of and access for transgender people.
other, healthcare, educationStage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
All Transgender bills in Texas
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Relating to a criminal offense committed against a person because of bias or prejudice on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
AI summary Adds 'gender identity' to the list of protected characteristics for hate crime sentence enhancements, so bias or prejudice against transgender people is more likely to result in enhanced penalties for crimes against them.
otherStage: Filed Nov 9: Filed -
Relating to the prohibition of certain discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression; providing an administrative penalty.
AI summary Adds 'gender identity or expression' to multiple anti-discrimination statutes covering public accommodations, employment, housing, and state contractors, so more legal protections and recognition for transgender people.
otherStage: Filed Nov 9: Filed -
Relating to a task force to study the legal and societal barriers to equality for transgender persons.
AI summary Establishes a task force to study and recommend ways to advance transgender equality in areas including healthcare, education, housing, employment and criminal justice, so more legal recognition of and access for transgender people.
other, healthcare, educationStage: Filed Nov 9: Filed -
Relating to fetal development instruction included as part of the public school health curriculum in certain grade levels.
AI summary Requires public schools to teach a description of the growth and development of an 'unborn child' during each trimester of pregnancy, so more presentation of fetal development as a distinct entity in education.
No change to transgender recognition & accesseducationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 15, 2025: Filed -
Relating to fetal development instruction included as part of the public school health curriculum in certain grade levels.
AI summary Adds fetal development instruction to the required health curriculum for grades 7-8 and optionally other grades, with no provisions on gender identity, pronouns, or transgender topics.
No change to transgender recognition & accesseducationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 4, 2025: Filed -
Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to biological sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action.
AI summary Requires government-owned or operated multiple-occupancy spaces like restrooms, locker rooms, and showers to be designated and used only according to biological sex (defined by sex organs, chromosomes, birth certificate), so less access to facilities matching gender identity.
Restricts transgender recognition & accessbathrooms, otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 14, 2025: Filed -
Relating to general definitions for and collection of governmental information regarding biological sex.
AI summary Defines 'sex' as biological sex (male or female based on reproductive system) for all government-collected vital statistics and IDs, and requires governmental entities to identify individuals only as male or female when collecting such data, making legal recognition of gender identity less likely.
Restricts transgender recognition & accessid documents, other, sportsStage: Law Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25 -
Relating to required health benefit plan coverage for gender transition adverse effects and reversals.
AI summary Requires health plans that have covered gender transition procedures to also cover all adverse effects, monitoring, and reversal procedures, which increases mandated insurance coverage and access to reversal-related care for transgender people.
healthcareStage: Law May 24, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25 -
Relating to protection for a public employee's or student's use of terms consistent with biological sex.
AI summary Prohibits schools and higher education institutions from disciplining students or employees for using terms based on biological sex rather than gender identity, so less recognition of and access to gender-identity-based language policies.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducation, otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 23, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars -
Relating to fetal development instruction included as part of the public school health curriculum in certain grade levels.
AI summary Adds fetal development instruction to the required health curriculum for grades 7-8 and optionally other grades, with no provisions on gender identity, pronouns, or transgender topics.
No change to transgender recognition & accesseducationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 14, 2025: Referred to Public Education -
Relating to required health benefit plan coverage for gender transition adverse effects and reversals.
AI summary Requires health plans that have covered gender transition procedures to also cover all adverse effects, monitoring, reversal, and recovery from those procedures, increasing mandated coverage and costs associated with gender transition care.
healthcareStage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 10, 2025: Laid on the table subject to call -
Relating to the placement of children in a detention or correctional facility according to biological sex.
AI summary Requires placement of juveniles in detention or correctional facilities according to biological sex as recorded at birth on official documents, so less access to facilities matching gender identity.
Restricts transgender recognition & accessbathrooms, educationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 10, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars -
Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to biological sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action.
AI summary Requires government-owned or operated multiple-occupancy spaces like restrooms, locker rooms, and showers to be designated and used only according to biological sex (defined by sex organs, chromosomes, birth certificate), so less access to facilities matching gender identity.
Restricts transgender recognition & accessbathrooms, otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 28, 2025: Reason for vote recorded in Journal -
Relating to access to a child's health records by the child's parent, managing conservator, or guardian.
AI summary Gives parents, managing conservators, or guardians access to a child's medical, dental, psychological, or surgical treatment records regardless of consent to treatment (unless limited by court order), increasing their information rights in disputes with the other parent or third parties.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesshealthcareStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 22, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars -
Relating to local school health advisory councils and instruction regarding human sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity provided by public schools.
AI summary Prohibits school districts, charter schools, and employees from providing or allowing instruction, guidance, activities, or programming regarding gender identity to students in prekindergarten through 12th grade, so less school-based recognition of or instruction on gender identity.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducation, otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 8, 2025: Co-author authorized -
Relating to parental rights in public education and prohibiting instruction regarding sexual orientation or gender identity for public school students.
AI summary Prohibits school instruction on gender identity and requires parental notification and consent for topics involving gender identity or a student's perception of biological sex, so less recognition and access for transgender students in schools.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 8, 2025: Co-author authorized -
Relating to traveling with a child to facilitate the provision of certain gender transitioning or gender reassignment procedures or treatments to that child; creating a criminal offense.
AI summary Creates a first-degree felony for traveling out of state with a resident child to obtain gender-transition procedures banned in Texas, so less access to such care for minors.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesshealthcare, otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to Public Health -
Relating to a limitation on the use of a victim's gender identity or sexual orientation as the basis for a defense in the trial of a criminal offense.
AI summary Limits use of a victim's gender identity as basis for defenses like self-defense, sudden passion, or lower culpability in criminal trials, so less ability to use transgender status to reduce criminal liability.
Restricts transgender recognition & accessotherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence -
Relating to prohibiting public officers and employees from displaying preferred gender pronouns; authorizing a private civil right of action.
AI summary Prohibits public employees and officers from using terms like 'gender-affirming care', referring to transgender individuals with nouns matching their gender identity, or using terms like 'cisgender', so less official recognition and use of transgender-related language in government communications.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducation, otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 2, 2025: Referred to State Affairs -
Relating to a limitation on the use of a victim's gender identity or sexual orientation as the basis for a defense in the trial of a criminal offense.
AI summary Limits use of a victim's gender identity as basis for defenses like self-defense, sudden passion, or lower culpability in criminal trials, so less ability to use gender identity in such defenses.
Restricts transgender recognition & accessotherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 1, 2025: Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence -
Relating to protecting parents and other individuals from criminal investigations or prosecution for refusing to affirm a child's homosexual or transgender inclinations or efforts to obtain an abortion.
AI summary Protects parents and others from criminal liability for refusing to affirm or attempting to change a child's transgender inclinations or behavior, so less legal recognition of and access to services for transgender minors.
Restricts transgender recognition & accessotherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 1, 2025: Referred to State Affairs -
Relating to including fetal development instruction as part of the required health curriculum for public school students.
AI summary Adds required fetal development instruction to the health curriculum but does not address gender identity, pronouns, sex-designated facilities, sports, or any transgender-specific policies.
No change to transgender recognition & accesseducationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 31, 2025: Referred to Public Education -
Relating to a prohibition on instruction regarding abortion in public schools; creating a criminal offense.
AI summary Prohibits teachers from providing any instruction, information, materials, referrals, or discussions that promote or normalize abortion in public schools, with criminal penalties, termination, and civil liability, so less access to abortion-related education.
No change to transgender recognition & accesseducationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 31, 2025: Referred to Public Education -
Relating to parental rights in public education and prohibiting instruction regarding sexual orientation or gender identity for public school students.
AI summary Prohibits instruction on gender identity in schools and requires parental notification and consent for topics related to gender identity or a student's perception of biological sex, so less recognition and access for transgender students in education.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 27, 2025: Referred to Public Education -
Relating to including fetal development instruction as part of the required health curriculum for public school students in certain grade levels.
AI summary Adds specific required instruction on fetal development and the concept that life begins at fertilization to the health curriculum for grades 6-8, but does not address gender identity, pronouns, or transgender issues.
No change to transgender recognition & accesseducationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 27, 2025: Referred to Public Education -
Relating to protection for a public school employee's use of terms consistent with biological sex.
AI summary Prohibits public schools from disciplining employees for using pronouns or terms based on biological sex rather than gender identity, so less legal recognition of and access to gender-identity-based language in schools.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducation, otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 26, 2025: Not again placed on intent calendar -
Relating to creating the criminal offense of gender identity fraud.
AI summary Creates a new state jail felony for knowingly making a false or misleading statement to a government entity or employer identifying one's biological sex as the opposite of the sex assigned at birth, so less legal recognition of transgender identity.
Restricts transgender recognition & accessother, id documentsStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 26, 2025: Referred to State Affairs -
Relating to prohibiting public institutions of higher education from providing instruction regarding the use of gender pronouns.
AI summary Prohibits public higher education institutions from providing instruction that promotes gender pronouns inconsistent with biological sex, so less recognition and use of transgender pronouns in education.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 26, 2025: Referred to Higher Education -
Relating to local school health advisory councils and instruction regarding human sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity provided by public schools.
AI summary Prohibits school districts and employees from providing any instruction, guidance, activities, or programming regarding gender identity to K-12 students, so less school recognition of or instruction on transgender identities.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducation, otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 24, 2025: Referred to Public Education -
Relating to the definitions of child abuse and neglect and the temporary emergency jurisdiction of a court in this state over a child at risk of receiving certain prohibited gender transitioning or gender reassignment procedures or treatments.
AI summary Expands the definition of child abuse to include gender-affirming medical interventions for minors, allowing DFPS investigations and removal, while explicitly excluding refusal to affirm a child's gender identity or use preferred pronouns.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesshealthcare, educationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 24, 2025: Referred to s/c on Family & Fiduciary Relationships by Speaker -
Relating to prohibitions on the provision to certain children of gender transitioning or reassignment procedures and treatments and gender-affirming therapy and counseling; creating criminal offenses.
AI summary Bans physicians and providers from performing gender-transition surgeries, mastectomies, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or tissue removal on children, and bans non-physician mental health professionals from providing gender-affirming therapy or counseling to affirm a child's perceived gender,
Restricts transgender recognition & accesshealthcare, otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 21, 2025: Referred to Public Health -
Relating to prohibiting a public school teacher from supporting a student's gender transition.
AI summary Prohibits public school teachers from using or encouraging non-birth pronouns, discussing transgender topics, facilitating social transition, or connecting students to LGBTQ organizations, so less recognition and support for transgender students in schools.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 21, 2025: Referred to Public Education -
Relating to the provision of procedures and treatments for gender transitioning, gender reassignment, or gender dysphoria and the use of public money or public assistance to provide those procedures or treatments.
AI summary Extends the existing ban on gender-transition surgeries, mastectomies, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and removal of healthy tissue from minors to all persons of any age, while adding funding bans for such care and narrowing some exceptions, so less access to gender-transition care.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesshealthcareStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 21, 2025: Referred to Public Health -
Relating to intercollegiate athletic competitions based on biological sex.
AI summary Requires out-of-state teams to certify compliance with Texas rules that bar males from competing on women's intercollegiate teams, so less access to sports matching gender identity.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesssportsStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 20, 2025: Referred to Higher Education -
Relating to parental rights in public education and prohibiting instruction regarding sexual orientation or gender identity for public school students.
AI summary Prohibits school instruction on gender identity and requires parental notification and consent for topics involving gender identity or a student's perception of biological sex, so less recognition and access for transgender students in schools.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 19, 2025: Referred to Public Education -
Relating to general definitions regarding biological sex and the designation and use of certain spaces according to biological sex; authorizing a civil right of action.
AI summary Defines sex strictly as biological sex observed at birth and requires designation and use of changing rooms, showers, sleeping quarters, and facilities in covered settings (including schools, shelters, and correctional facilities) according to that biological sex, so less access to facilities for aT
Restricts transgender recognition & accessbathrooms, id documents, otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 18, 2025: Referred to State Affairs -
Relating to the inclusion of a person's biological sex on certain government documents and identification cards.
AI summary Requires biological sex (defined by sex organs, chromosomes, or endogenous profile at birth) to be recorded on birth and death certificates, driver's licenses, commercial licenses, and ID cards, and prohibits amending these documents to change the listed biological sex except in narrow cases ofcler
Restricts transgender recognition & accessid documentsStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 17, 2025: Referred to State Affairs -
Relating to protection for a public school employee's use of terms consistent with biological sex.
AI summary Protects public school employees from discipline for using pronouns or terms based on biological sex rather than gender identity when addressing students or staff, so less recognition of transgender students' gender identity in schools.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Public Education -
Relating to the eligibility of a student with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder for special education services provided by a public school.
AI summary Adds fetal alcohol spectrum disorder to the list of disabilities that qualify a student for special education services in public schools, with no mention of gender identity or transgender issues.
No change to transgender recognition & accesseducationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Public Education -
Relating to the applicability of certain criminal offenses to the provision of gender-affirming care.
AI summary Exempts the provision of gender-affirming care from applicability of certain criminal offenses in the Penal Code chapter on assaultive offenses, so more legal protection for providing such care.
healthcareNo change to transgender recognition & accessotherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence -
Relating to a task force to study the legal and societal barriers to equality for transgender persons.
AI summary Establishes a task force to study and recommend ways to ensure equality and improve lives of transgender persons in areas including health care, education, housing, employment, and criminal justice, so more legal recognition and access for transgender people.
other, healthcare, educationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 11, 2025: Referred to State Affairs -
Relating to an elective course on community safety and firearm safety for certain public high school students.
AI summary Adds an optional high-school elective that includes firearm safety instruction, state and federal firearm laws, and handgun proficiency classroom material, increasing student exposure to firearm education.
No change to transgender recognition & accessotherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 7, 2025: Referred to Public Education -
Relating to interscholastic athletic competition based on biological sex, requirements for physical examinations and genetic testing in interscholastic athletics, and the adoption of rules by the University Interscholastic League to implement these requirements.
AI summary Requires interscholastic athletic teams to bar students from competing in competitions for the biological sex opposite to the one on their birth certificate or if their chromosomal sex does not match sex assigned at birth, and mandates genetic testing when a physician suspects inconsistency, so less
Restricts transgender recognition & accesssports, educationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 7, 2025: Referred to Public Education -
Relating to the prohibition of certain discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression; providing an administrative penalty.
AI summary Adds 'gender identity or expression' to definitions and prohibitions against discrimination in public accommodations, employment, housing, and state contracting, so more legal recognition of and protections for transgender people.
otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 7, 2025: Referred to State Affairs -
Relating to a cause of action for drag performances performed in the presence of a minor.
AI summary Creates a civil cause of action against promoters, conductors, or performers of drag performances (defined using gender different than recorded at birth) before minors if the performance violates adult-community standards for minors and access is not restricted, making such performances legally risk
Restricts transgender recognition & accessotherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 7, 2025: Referred to State Affairs -
Relating to electronic health record requirements, including the recording of an individual's biological sex.
AI summary Requires electronic health records to record biological sex at birth (with narrow exceptions only for disorders of sexual development) and base medical algorithms on it, while allowing but not requiring separate gender identity fields, so less legal recognition of gender identity distinct from birth
Restricts transgender recognition & accessid documents, healthcareStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to Health & Human Services -
Relating to parental rights in public education and prohibiting certain instruction regarding sexual orientation or gender identity; authorizing a civil penalty.
AI summary Prohibits school instruction on gender identity to students in prekindergarten through eighth grade or in a non-age-appropriate manner, so less school recognition of or instruction on transgender and gender identity topics.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducation, otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to Public Education -
Relating to a cause of action for drag performances performed in the presence of a minor.
AI summary Creates a civil cause of action against promoters, conductors, or performers of drag performances (defined using gender different than recorded at birth) before minors if the performance violates adult-community standards for minors and access is not restricted, making such performances legally risk
Restricts transgender recognition & accessotherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to State Affairs -
Relating to the acceptance of identification for voters who identify as transgender.
AI summary Requires election workers to accept voter ID with gender markers that do not match a transgender voter's gender identity or expression, and mandates training on this, so more legal recognition and access to voting for transgender people.
id documents, educationStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to Elections -
Relating to the prohibition of housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity and to the enforcement of that prohibition.
AI summary Adds 'gender identity' (defined to include gender-related identity or characteristics regardless of sex at birth) to the list of protected characteristics in the Texas Fair Housing Act, prohibiting discrimination in sale, rental, terms, advertising, and related services, so greater legal recognition
otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 4, 2025: Referred to Trade, Workforce & Economic Development -
Relating to the prohibition of certain discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity; providing an administrative penalty.
AI summary Adds 'gender identity' (defined without regard to sex at birth) as a protected characteristic in public accommodations, employment, housing, and state contracting, prohibiting discrimination based on it and creating civil actions and penalties, so greater legal recognition and access for transgender
otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 4, 2025: Referred to State Affairs -
Relating to prohibited discrimination by health care providers based on an individual's age, race, disability, immigration status, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression.
AI summary Prohibits health care providers from refusing services based on gender identity or expression, so more access to health care for transgender people.
healthcareStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 4, 2025: Referred to Public Health -
Relating to notice regarding access by a parent, guardian, or managing conservator to a child's health records.
AI summary Requires health providers to notify parents every six months about how to access a minor child's electronic health records if access to the online portal is restricted, increasing parental awareness of and potential involvement in a child's health information including gender-related care.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducation, healthcareStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Health & Human Services -
Relating to housing and placement of inmates and children according to biological sex.
AI summary Requires housing and placement of inmates and juveniles in sex-segregated facilities based on biological sex at birth (using birth certificate or sex organs), so less access to facilities matching gender identity.
Restricts transgender recognition & accessbathroomsStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to State Affairs -
Relating to a prohibition on instruction and certain activities regarding sexual orientation or gender identity provided or allowed by a public school.
AI summary Prohibits public schools from providing or allowing instruction, guidance, activities or programming on gender identity to K-12 students, so less school recognition of or support for transgender students' gender identity.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducation, otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Public Education -
Relating to intercollegiate athletic competitions based on biological sex.
AI summary Requires out-of-state teams to certify compliance with Texas rules limiting participation to biological sex, so less access to women's teams for transgender women.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesssportsStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 24, 2025: Referred to State Affairs -
Relating to the appearance of a license to carry a handgun, personal identification certificate, or driver's license issued to a person who is not a citizen of the United States.
AI summary Requires licenses to carry a handgun issued to non-citizens to have a substantially different design and to display the word 'NONCITIZEN' on both sides, creating a visible distinction from citizen licenses.
Restricts transgender recognition & accessid documentsStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 13, 2025: Co-author authorized -
Relating to prohibiting certain conduct by physicians and health care providers involving gender transitioning and gender reassignment procedures and treatments for children; creating a criminal offense.
AI summary Bans physicians and health care providers from performing gender-transition surgeries, providing puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, removing healthy body parts, or referring children out of state for such procedures, so less access to gender-transition medical care for minors.
Restricts transgender recognition & accesshealthcareStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 7, 2025: Referred to State Affairs -
Relating to a criminal offense committed against a person because of bias or prejudice on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
AI summary Adds gender identity to the list of protected characteristics for hate crime sentence enhancements, so bias or prejudice against transgender people is more likely to result in enhanced penalties for certain crimes.
otherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to Criminal Justice
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