Transgender in Virginia

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• VAHB359 2027By Dan Helmer (D)
  Private elementary or secondary school; use of public funds for tuition, standards.

  AI summary Requires private schools receiving public tuition funds to not discriminate on the basis of gender identity or expression and to affirm the identities of all students, so more legal recognition of and access for transgender students in participating private schools.

  ↑Expands transgender recognition & accesseducation
  Stage: Committee Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VAHB1261 2027By Jackie Glass (D)
  Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technology & interrogation practices; forensic laboratory.

  AI summary Establishes comprehensive frameworks, model policies, and compulsory training for law-enforcement use of generative AI, audiovisual surveillance technologies (including license plate readers), and interrogation practices, adding oversight and standards but without provisions on cooperation with ICE,

  =No change to transgender recognition & accessother
  Stage: Committee Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VAHB1257 2027By Jackie Glass (D)
  Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technologies & interrogation practices; forensic lab.

  AI summary Establishes comprehensive frameworks, model policies, and compulsory training for law-enforcement use of generative AI, audiovisual surveillance technologies (including license plate readers), and interrogation practices, which regulates but does not expand or restrict the scope of immigration-enfor

  =No change to transgender recognition & accessother
  Stage: Committee Jul 21: Continued from last session
• VASB273 2026By Mamie Locke (D)
  Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Eviction Diversion Program, eligibility.

  AI summary This bill changes eligibility rules, payment percentages, and other procedures for a state eviction diversion program for residential tenants facing unlawful detainer actions; it has no provisions on abortion or reproductive issues.

  =No change to transgender recognition & accessother
  Stage: Law Apr 13: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818)
• VAHB837 2026By Adele McClure (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Eviction Diversion Program, eligibility.

  AI summary This bill changes eligibility rules, payment percentages, and other procedures for a state eviction diversion program for residential tenants facing unlawful detainer actions; it has no provisions on abortion or reproductive rights.

  =No change to transgender recognition & accessother
  Stage: Law Apr 6: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230)
• VAHB721 2026By Eric Zehr (R)
  Parents of public school children; fundamental right to opt children out of certain ed. content.

  AI summary Requires schools to allow parents to opt children out of any instruction or activity involving gender identity or transgenderism, so less exposure to such content in public schools.

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducation, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Education
• VAHB532 2026By Karen Hamilton (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Sage's Law; minor students experiencing gender incongruence, etc.

  AI summary Requires schools to notify parents of student requests for social affirmation or transition related to gender incongruence and to obtain parental permission before implementing any related plan, so less school support for transgender students without parental involvement.

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducation, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Education
• VAHB158 2026By Tim Griffin (R)
  Abuse or neglect of a child; transition of a child to sex or gender other than biological sex.

  AI summary Adds attempting to transition a child's sex or gender inconsistent with biological sex to the definition of 'abused or neglected child', so child welfare authorities can investigate and courts can intervene against such actions by parents or guardians.

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesshealthcare, education
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Committee Courts of Justice
• VAHB1242 2026By Delores Oates (R)
  K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports, etc.

  AI summary Requires schools and higher-ed institutions to designate sports teams by biological sex (with physician verification) and bars students of the male sex from female-designated teams, so less access to sports and facilities matching gender identity for transgender people.

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesssports
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 18: Left in Education
• VASB563 2026By Glen Sturtevant (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Public elementary and secondary schools; parent's right to opt children out of certain ed. content.

  AI summary Allows parents and students to opt out of any school instruction or activity involving gender identity or transgenderism, so less exposure to transgender-related content in schools.

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 12: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 4-N)
• VAHB359 2026By Dan Helmer (D)
  Private elementary or secondary school; use of public funds for tuition, standards.

  AI summary Requires private schools receiving public tuition funds to not discriminate on the basis of gender identity or expression and to affirm the identities of all students, so more legal recognition and access for transgender students in participating private schools.

  ↑Expands transgender recognition & accesseducation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 11: Continued to next session in Appropriations (Voice Vote)
• VASB411 2026By Mark Peake (R)⚠ check quote
  Youth Health Protection Act; established, civil penalty.

  AI summary Bans gender transition procedures including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries on minors under 21, and bars state-funded providers from performing them, so less access to gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesshealthcare, education, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N)
• VAHB1261 2026By Jackie Glass (D)
  Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technology & interrogation practices; forensic laboratory.

  AI summary Establishes comprehensive frameworks, model policies, and compulsory training standards for law-enforcement use of generative AI, audiovisual surveillance technologies (including license plate readers), and interrogation practices.

  =No change to transgender recognition & accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 2: Continued to next session in Communications, Technology and Innovation (Voice Vote)
• VASB703 2026By Tara Durant (R)
  Public elem. and sec. schools and higher ed. institutions; student participation in women's sports.

  AI summary Requires designation of school and college sports teams by biological sex and bars students of the male sex from female-designated teams, so less access to women's sports for transgender women.

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesssports
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 29: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
• VASB561 2026By Bryce Reeves (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Public schools; reasonable accommodation based on biological sex required, civil cause of action.

  AI summary Requires schools to provide single-occupancy or employee facilities as reasonable accommodation for students or staff seeking greater privacy in sex-designated multi-occupancy bathrooms or changing facilities, while defining sex by immutable biological sex at birth and prohibiting access to opposite

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accessbathrooms, education
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 29: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
• VASB560 2026By Bryce Reeves (R) · 1 cosponsor⚠ check quote
  Public elementary schools, etc.; student participation in sports, civil cause of action.

  AI summary Requires public K-12 schools and higher-ed institutions to designate athletic teams by biological sex (as identified on a physical form), bars males from female-designated teams, and creates causes of action against entities that allow participation contrary to biological sex, so less access to sex/

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesssports, education
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 29: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
• VASB295 2026By Mark Peake (R)
  Public schools, etc.; student participation in women's sports, civil cause of action.

  AI summary Requires public and VHSL schools to designate sports teams by biological sex and bars students of the male sex from girls' teams, so less access to sports matching gender identity for transgender girls.

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesssports
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 29: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
• VAHB2235 2025By Rae Cousins (D) · 14 cosponsors
  Local and regional correctional facilities; treatment of prisoners known to be pregnant.

  AI summary Adds training requirements for deputy sheriffs and jail officers on care of pregnant women and impacts of restraints, restrictive housing, and body cavity searches, which is a neutral change to law-enforcement training standards with no effect on firearm access.

  ↑Expands transgender recognition & accessother
  Stage: Law May 2, 2025: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698)
• VAHB2433 2025By Jackie Glass (D)
  Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technologies and interrogation practices.

  AI summary Adds training standards for school security officers who carry firearms, including active shooter response, but does not change rules on buying, owning, carrying or accessing firearms.

  =No change to transgender recognition & accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 5, 2025: Left in Public Safety
• VAHB2182 2025By Nicholas Freitas (R)
  Sage's Law; minor students experiencing gender incongruence, etc.

  AI summary Requires schools to notify parents of student requests for social affirmation or transition and obtain parental permission before implementing any related plan, so less school-level recognition or support for transgender students without parental involvement.

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducation, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 4, 2025: Left in Education
• VAHB2146 2025By Eric Zehr (R)
  Actions for medical malpractice; minors, gender transition procedures.

  AI summary Extends the statute of limitations for medical malpractice suits related to gender transition procedures on minors from 2 years (or age 10) to 20 years, making it easier to sue providers for such procedures and thus less likely that they will be performed.

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesshealthcare
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 4, 2025: Left in Courts of Justice
• VAHB1809 2025By Delores Oates (R) · 3 cosponsors
  K-12 schools and higher educational institutions; student participation in women's sports, etc.

  AI summary Requires K-12 and higher-ed women's sports teams to be designated and restricted by biological sex (with physician verification), barring students of the male sex and protecting such policies from adverse action, so less access to women's sports for transgender women.

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesssports
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 4, 2025: Left in Rules
• VASB749 2025By Tammy Brankley Mulchi (R) · 16 cosponsors
  K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports; civil cause of action.

  AI summary Requires K-12 and higher-ed women's sports teams to be designated and limited by biological sex (with physician verification), barring students of the male sex and creating causes of action against schools or associations that allow participation based on gender identity, so less access to women's/s

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesssports
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 23, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
• VASB1079 2025By Mark Peake (R)
  Elementary and secondary schools; athletics, participation in female sports, civil cause of action.

  AI summary Prohibits students who are biologically male (and have not physically transitioned to female prior to puberty) from participating on female-designated school athletic teams, so less access to sports matching gender identity.

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesssports
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 23, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
• VASB1074 2025By Mark Peake (R)⚠ check quote
  Youth Health Protection Act; established, civil penalty.

  AI summary Bans gender transition procedures including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries on minors under 21, and bars state-funded providers from performing them, so less access to gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesshealthcare, education, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 23, 2025: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
• VASB931 2025By Chris Head (R)
  Obscene materials; restrictions on purchase, distribution, exhibition, or loan; exceptions; libraries and schools.

  AI summary Removes schools from the list of exceptions to restrictions on obscene materials, so schools face greater restrictions on distributing or exhibiting such materials to students.

  ↓Restricts transgender recognition & accesseducation, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jan 20, 2025: Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
• VASB278 2025By Ghazala Hashmi (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Virginia Abortion Care & Gender-Affirming Health Care Protection Act; established, civil penalties.

  AI summary Prohibits extradition and summons for witnesses in out-of-state prosecutions related to abortion care lawful in Virginia, and bars law-enforcement cooperation or information-sharing on such care, so more legal access to abortion across state lines.

  ↑Expands transgender recognition & accesshealthcare, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Nov 19, 2024: Left in Courts of Justice
• VAHB1239 2025By Rodney Willett (D)
  Unaccompanied homeless youth; consent to surgical or medical care.

  AI summary Explicitly bars unaccompanied homeless minors from using the new consent authority to obtain an abortion without complying with existing parental-notification or judicial-approval requirements, so no expansion of abortion access.

  ↑Expands transgender recognition & accesshealthcare
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Nov 18, 2024: Left in Health and Human Services

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