No Place for LGBTQ+ Hate Act
This legislation overturns several executive orders that limit rights and protections for LGBTQ+ individuals, with a primary focus on transgender rights. If passed, it would protect the right of transgender people to serve in the military, access age-appropriate healthcare, participate in school sports matching their gender identity, and receive federal ID documents with appropriate gender markers. The bill also cuts off federal funding for the enforcement of these orders or any similar future directives.
What this bill touches.
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- LGBTQI+ individualsSection 2(a)(1) and Section 2(b)(1) nullify executive orders that limit federal non-discrimination protections in employment, housing, education, and healthcare, and restore access to appropriate federal identity markers.
- Transgender servicemembersSection 2(a)(1) and Section 2(b)(2) nullify Executive Order 14183, removing the executive order that reinstated and expanded a military ban on transgender servicemembers.
- Transgender youth and studentsSection 2(a)(1) and Section 2(b)(3)-(5) void executive orders that restricted healthcare for adolescents under 19, barred transgender girls from participating on school sports teams matching their gender identity, and required schools to deny the existence of transgender people.
Who it burdens
- Federal agenciesSection 2(a)(2) prohibits federal agencies from using any federal funds to implement, administer, enforce, or carry out the listed executive orders or similar future orders.
The provisions, in plain language.
Nullifies specified executive orders and any related future orders affecting LGBTQI+ individuals, including orders concerning federal definitions of sex, transgender military service, adolescent healthcare, and school sports and policies.
Prohibits the use of federal funds to implement, administer, enforce, or carry out the specified executive orders.
Clarifies that the Act does not limit or impair the President's constitutional authorities.