In response, numerous states have enacted new laws designed to protect women’s sports (2), safeguard parental rights (3), ban pronoun mandates (4), and stop gender transitioning of underage youth (5)
During the recent 2024 legislative sessions, the following 11 laws were enacted to thwart the Gender Agenda:
- Ohio House Bill 68 – a bill that prevents transgender athletes from playing women’s sports. (6)
- New Hampshire HB 1205 – a bill protecting participation on female K-12 sports teams based on sex. (7)
- Tennessee SB 2749 – ‘Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act,’ which establishes that “[t]he liberty of a parent to the care, custody, and control of the parent’s child, including the right to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of the child, is a fundamental right.” (8)
- Louisiana House Bill 121 prohibits the use of transgender and nonbinary youths’ chosen names and pronouns in K-12 public schools without parental permission. (9)
- Tennessee SB 1810 – a bill that requires schools to alert parents if their child has requested to go by a name, or set of pronouns, that differs from their school forms. (10)
- Idaho House Bill 538, bars teachers from referring to a student by a name or pronoun that doesn’t align with their birth sex, unless parents’ consent. It also broadly enacts protections for public employees, including teachers, who are unwilling to use someone’s preferred name and pronouns. (11)
- Idaho House Bill 668, a bill banning the use of public funding to cover sex-change procedures. (12)
- Ohio House Bill 68, a bill which blocks gender-affirming care for trans youth. (13)
- Wyoming bill SF0099, a Children gender change prohibition bill which bans physicians from performing procedures for children related to gender transitioning and gender reassignment. (14)
- South Carolina bill H4624 places a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The law also bars health professionals from performing gender-transition surgeries, prescribing puberty blockers and overseeing hormone treatments for patients under 18. (15)
- New Hampshire HB 619 – a bill that “ensures that life-altering, irreversible surgeries will not be performed on children.” (16)
In addition, SAVE has launched a Citizen Watchdog program designed to engage citizens in local grassroots efforts to monitor school activities. (18)
In support of these developments, SAVE is inviting candidates for political office to sign the “Candidate Pledge to Protect Schools, Children, and Families from the Federal Title IX Plan.”
The Candidate Pledge can be viewed online. (19) To date, 108 lawmakers from 27 states have signed the statement. (20) Candidates can indicate their support for the Pledge by sending a confirmatory email to: rthompson@saveservices.org