Anti-Trans Bills

California

There have been 6 anti-trans bills introduced in California in 2025. The legislation impacts 4 categories:

EDUCATION

SPORTS

CHILD ABUSE

INCARCERATION

 

CA AB89

Interscholastic sports: gender equity.

An act to add Section 33353.8 to the Education Code, relating to interscholastic sports.

"The California Interscholastic Federation shall amend its constitution, bylaws, and policies to prohibit a pupil whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls’ interscholastic sports team."

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CA AB844

Educational equity: sex-segregated school and athletic programs and activities: use of facilities.

An act to amend Section 221.5 of, and to add Section 66271.85 to, the Education Code, relating to educational equity.

"For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Female” means a person whose reproductive system, as determined by anatomy and genetics at the time of birth"

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CA AB600

Pupil instruction: transgender concepts: opt out.

An act to add Section 51247 to the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction.

“Transgender concepts” include any of the following: (A) Sex as being a social construct. (B) Humans as not being sexually dimorphic. (C) Sex as being assigned or guessed at birth. (D) Gender identity. (E) Transgender identities of any kind. (F) Sex and gender as being a spectrum. (G) Gender dysphoria. (H) Gender expression."

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CA AB579

Yaeli’s Law.

CHILD ABUSE

“Abuse or neglect in out-of-home care” does not include any of the following: [...] (2) Using a child’s legal name, referring to a child by a pronoun consistent with the child’s sex as recorded at birth, or treating a child consistent with his or her sex as recorded at birth."

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CA AB1464

Housing preferences.

An act to amend Section 2606 of the Penal Code, relating to prisons.

"The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall deny a housing preference and shall require an individual to be housed in a facility consistent with the individual’s anatomy if the ..."

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CA SB311

Correctional facilities: women’s prisons.

Section 3327 is added to the Penal Code, to read: [...] (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall establish a secure facility at each women’s prison to house transgender women, in order to protect the security needs of biological women at birth in sleeping and other intimate areas. 

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