We are tracking 6 anti-trans bills in Pennsylvania in 2025. The legislation impacts 4 categories:
HEALTHCARE
SPORTS
EDUCATION
OTHER
An Act prohibiting gender transition procedures for minors and coverage for gender transition procedures for minors.
(1) A health care practitioner may not perform gender transition procedures on a minor or refer a minor to receive gender transition procedures. (2) A health care practitioner with prescriptive authority may not prescribe cross-sex hormones or pubertyblocking drugs to a minor or refer a minor to be prescribed cross-sex hormones or puberty-blocking drugs.
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 amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in miscellaneous provisions relating to institutions of higher education, providing for prohibitions regarding ideological oaths or statements, for prohibition on diversity, equity and inclusion offices and employees, for statements required to be included in mission statement, bylaws, faculty handbook and student handbook, for certain mandatory training prohibited, for revoking tenure for diversity, equity and inclusion violations and for spending restricted; and imposing penalties.
Prohibition on diversity, equity and inclusion offices and employees. [...] A public institution of higher education may not establish or maintain a diversity, equity and inclusion office or hire or assign an employee of the public institution of higher education or contract with a third party to perform the duties of a diversity, equity and inclusion office.
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.
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 harm suffered by designation.
Athletic teams or sports designated for females, women or girls under subsection (a)(2) may not be open to students of the male sex.