Bans on Essential Medical Care for Trans Youth
A series of Indiana bills would prohibit and criminalize families and doctors for providing life-saving, age-appropriate, evidence-based care for youth who require it.
Throughout the 2023 legislative session, we will monitor key bills that affect Hoosiers' civil rights and liberties. Check back often for updates.
A series of Indiana bills would prohibit and criminalize families and doctors for providing life-saving, age-appropriate, evidence-based care for youth who require it.
This bill requires school staff to share private information and even speculation about students’ gender identities with other school staff and parents.
These bills prevent elementary and secondary schools and non-college/university libraries from raising a defense to existing law which makes it a felony to expose minors to “harmful” material.
This highly unconstitutional bill would force the Department of Corrections to deny necessary medical care to incarcerated transgender people.
This bill removes protections from criminal prosecution for a pregnant person who chooses to have an abortion. It also removes protections for the physician who performs the abortion.
A number of bills have been introduced that seek to censor or even ban discussion or acknowledgement of LGBTQ people in schools.
SJR 1 seeks to amend the Constitution of the State of Indiana to add language that would eliminate access to bail for someone deemed a “risk to society.”
These bills would make it a crime for a person to come within a certain distance of a police officer performing duties if the person is told by the officer to stop moving or to move away.
These bills would make it illegal for child services agencies to consider failure to provide a safe and affirming environment to a trans youth when deciding whether to remove a child from a potentially abusive home.
This bill says that life begins at conception and that fetuses have equal rights to the pregnant person carrying them.
This bill would create a system of medical and geriatric reprieve to support safe, evidence-based pathways to release for the elderly and those with terminal, costly, life-hampering, and/or life-threatening medical conditions.
This bill gives the attorney general blanket authority to sweep in and demand information from nonprofits with no cause.
HB 1493 would ensure that parents do not have to pay for the defense of their child in juvenile court unless the judge finds that they are financially able to.
These bills would allow undocumented immigrant students who attended high school in Indiana to pay in-state tuition at Indiana’s public colleges and universities.
This bill gives certain members of the Indiana General Assembly the power to request the appointment of a special prosecutor in cases in which a county prosecutor has used their lawful discretion not to prosecute.
The Indiana General Assembly should pass marijuana legalization bills and should prioritize racial justice and equity in reform efforts
This bill would establish a new area of the Indiana Code regarding consumer data protection. However, it does not go far enough to protect Hoosiers' privacy rights.
This bill would prevent the Indiana Department of Corrections from exercising leeway in choosing whether or not to house women who happen to be transgender in women’s prison facilities.
These bills expand access to birth control to patients that are at least 18 years of age.
By unnecessarily limiting the definition of “sex” to “biological sex” — these bills would prevent transgender people from updating their birth certificate to reflect the reality of their daily lives.
This bill prohibits a law enforcement agency or law enforcement officers from engaging in racial profiling or conducting pretextual stops.
This bill prohibits race discrimination in housing, credit, employment, and public accommodations based on traits historically associated with race.
This bill alters current malpractice law, specifically targeting medical care that transgender people receive by increasing the penalty from two years to fifteen years.
This bill would prohibit the use of state funds to pay for any costs associated with an abortion and prohibit any payments or referrals to an outside organization to perform an abortion.
This vaguely worded bill would ban schools from “promoting or encouraging the use of” student pronouns or chosen names that are “inconsistent with biological sex.”
By imposing criminal charges against people for accessing facilities that don’t match their “biological gender” — this bill unnecessarily criminalizes a group of citizens who already face enormous levels of violence and public harassment.
These bills would expand driver’s card access to every Hoosier regardless of immigration status.