Trans Legislation Tracker

Florida

We are tracking 11 anti-trans bills in Florida in 2025. The legislation impacts 3 categories:

OTHER

EDUCATION

BATHROOM

FL H0075

OTHER
INTRODUCED

Display of Flags by Governmental Entities

Prohibits governmental entities from erecting or displaying certain flags; requires governmental entities to remain neutral in certain circumstances; requires that United States flag displayed by governmental entities be in certain position relative to other flags; authorizes current or retired member of United States Armed Forces or National Guard to use reasonable force to prevent desecration, destruction, or removal of United States flag or to replace such flag to position of prominence.

A governmental entity may not erect or display a flag that represents a political viewpoint, including, but not limited to, a politically partisan, racial, sexual orientation and gender, or political ideology viewpoint. The governmental entity must remain neutral when representing political viewpoints in displaying or erecting a flag.

FL H0731

EDUCATION
INTRODUCED

Standardized Tests for Admission to Medical Institutions of Higher Education

Requires medical institutions of higher education to have standardized admissions test focused on specified knowledge & skills.

A state agency may not expend appropriated funds or otherwise expend any funds [...] to establish, sustain, support, or staff a DEI office or [...] hire a person to serve as a DEI officer.

INTRODUCED

Crimes Evidencing Prejudice

Expands grounds for reclassification of crimes to include acts of prejudice based on gender of victim; specifies that reclassification occurs if crime was based in whole or in part on actual or perceived characteristics of victim; provides for reclassification of crime if it was based in whole or in part on actual or perceived mental or physical disability of victim.

“Gender” means the sex assigned to an individual at birth.

INTRODUCED

Gender Identity Employment Practices

Specifies employment policy of state relating to person's sex; provides applicability; prohibits employees & contractors of certain employers from being required to use certain pronouns or requiring such employer to use pronoun that does not correspond to employee's or contractor's sex; prohibits certain forms from offering specified options relating to applicant's sex; prohibits adverse personnel action on basis of deeply held religious, moral, conscious-based, or biology-based beliefs; provides administrative & civil remedies; provides reasonable attorney fees & costs; provides that it is unlawful employment practice for certain employers to require certain training, instruction, or activity as condition of employment.

“Gender ideology” means the false belief that replaces the biological category of sex with an ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity, permitting the false claim that males can identify as and become women and vice versa, and requiring all institutions of society to regard this false claim as true. The term includes the idea that there is a vast spectrum of genders that are disconnected from a person’s sex. The term is internally inconsistent in that it diminishes sex as an identifiable or useful category but nevertheless maintains that it is possible for a person to be born in the wrong sexed body.

FL H1571

EDUCATION
INTRODUCED

Official Actions of Local Governments with Respect to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Prohibits counties & municipalities, respectively, from taking official action as it relates to diversity, equity, & inclusion; provides penalty; authorizes cause of action against counties & municipalities, respectively, that take such action; defines "diversity, equity, & inclusion."

A county may not take any official action, including, but not limited to, the adoption of ordinances, resolutions, rules or regulations, programs, or policies, as it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

INTRODUCED

Display of Flags by Governmental Entities

Defining the term "governmental entity"; prohibiting governmental entities from erecting or displaying certain flags; requiring governmental entities to remain neutral in certain circumstances; authorizing a current or retired member of the United States Armed Forces or the National Guard to use reasonable force to prevent the desecration, destruction, or removal of the United States flag or to replace such flag to a position of prominence, etc.

Display of flags; governmental agencies, local governments, or other units of local government. (1) For purposes of this section, the term “governmental entity” means a governmental agency, a local government, or another unit of local government and includes public schools, public colleges, and public universities. (2)(a) A governmental entity may not erect or display a flag that represents a political viewpoint, including, but not limited to, a politically partisan, racial, sexual orientation and gender, or political ideology viewpoint. The governmental entity must remain neutral when representing political viewpoints in displaying or erecting a flag.

FL S0420

EDUCATION
INTRODUCED

Official Actions of Local Governments

Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from funding or promoting or taking official action as it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion; providing that a county commissioner, a member of the governing body of a municipality, or any other county or municipal official who violates certain provisions commits misfeasance or malfeasance in office; requiring potential recipients of county and municipal contracts and grants to make a certain certification to the county or municipality before being awarded such contract or grant, etc.

A county may not take any official action, including, but not limited to, the adoption of ordinances, resolutions, rules or regulations, programs, or policies, as it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

INTRODUCED

Gender Identity Employment Practices

Citing this act as the "Freedom of Conscience in the Workplace Act"; specifying an employment policy of this state relating to a person's sex; prohibiting employees and contractors of certain employers from being required to use certain pronouns or requiring such employer to use a pronoun that does not correspond to the employee's or contractor's sex; providing that it is an unlawful employment practice for the state or any county, municipality, special district, or other political subdivision to require certain training, instruction, or activity as a condition of employment, etc.

“Gender ideology” means the false belief that replaces the biological category of sex with an ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity, permitting the false claim that males can identify as and become women and vice versa, and requiring all institutions of society to regard this false claim as true. The term includes the idea that there is a vast spectrum of genders that are disconnected from a person’s sex. The term is internally inconsistent in that it diminishes sex as an identifiable or useful category but nevertheless maintains that it is possible for a person to be born in the wrong sexed body.

INTRODUCED

Crimes Evidencing Prejudice

Expanding grounds for the reclassification of crimes to include acts of prejudice based upon the gender of a victim; specifying that the reclassification occurs if the crime was based in whole or in part on the actual or perceived characteristics of the victim; revising the definition of the term "mental or physical disability"; defining the term "victim", etc.

“Gender” means the sex assigned to an individual at birth.

FL S1624

BATHROOM
INTRODUCED

Higher Education

Authorizing the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to develop contracts or agreements with institutions in the State University System for a specified purpose; providing tuition assistance to active members of the Florida State Guard; specifying that the President of the University of Florida appoints the members of the scientific advisory council within the Florida Center for Brain Tumor Research; revising the qualifications for members of the Assistive Technology Advisory Council; revising the date by which the Department of Education is required to publish an annual report on apprenticeship and preapprenticeship programs; authorizing Florida College System institutions with a certain number of full-time equivalent students to enter into cooperative agreements to form a state college regional consortium service organization, etc.

A public school or Florida College System institution may provide separate toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex gender, but such facilities shall be comparable to such facilities provided for students of the other sex.

FL S1710

EDUCATION
INTRODUCED

Prohibitions and Limitations on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Requirements for Medical Institutions of Higher Education

Providing requirements for state agencies applying for certain federal health care-related grants; prohibiting state agencies from expending certain funds for a diversity, equity, and inclusion office or officer; requiring potential recipients of state contracts or grants to provide a specified certification to the Chief Financial Officer, etc.

“Diversity, equity, and inclusion” or “DEI” means: [...] d. Any effort to promote or adopt training, programming, or activities designed or implemented with reference to [...] gender identity, or sexual orientation [...] e. Any effort to promote [...] a particular opinion referencing unconscious or implicit bias, cultural appropriation, allyship, transgender ideology, [...] systemic oppression, social justice, intersectionality, neopronouns, heteronormativity, disparate impact, gender theory, racial or sexual privilege, or any related formulation of these concepts.