Tracking Anti-LGBTQ Legislative Bans and the challenges organizations have brought against them.
nclrights.orgOverview: Over the past four years, attacks on hard-won LGBTQ+ rights have increased across the United States.
From medical care, to education, to identity documents, there are few areas that have been untouched by legislative bans on constitutionally protected activity, especially for the transgender community.
More than half of the states now ban healthcare and sports participation for transgender youth. The scale of these attacks has ensured that only some of the bans get challenged in court and an even smaller number get overturned.
Our team worked to track these laws (with the information provided by the Movement Advancement Project (MAP)) along with any legal challenges. Landscape of Anti-LGBTQ+ Bans and Challenges: Below is a breakdown of the different categories of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, the number of states that have adopted these laws, and the number of challenges that have been filedagainst them.
