We are tracking 3 anti-trans bills in Pennsylvania in 2025. The legislation impacts 3 categories:
SPORTS
EDUCATION
OTHER
An Act providing for sport activities in public institutions of higher education and public school entities to be expressly designated male, female or coed; and creating causes of action for harms suffered by designation.
An interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural or club athletic team or sport that is sponsored by a public school entity, a public institution of higher education or a school or institution where students or teams compete against a public school entity or public institution of higher education shall be expressly designated as one of the following based on sex: (1) Male, men or boys. (2) Female, women or girls. (3) Coed or mixed. Prohibition.--An athletic team or sport designated for females, women or girls under subsection (a)(2) may not be open to students of the male sex.
An Act providing for classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and for parental notification of student health care services; and establishing cause of action for violation.
A school entity may not offer instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity to a student in kindergarten through fifth grade.
An Act recognizing two sexes, male and female; and providing for duties and prohibitions.
The General Assembly finds and declares that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to recognize two sexes, male and female. The sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.