H.Res. 1058

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1058 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. RES. 1058

Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop 
and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights to protect and codify the 
rights of transgender and nonbinary people under the law and ensure 
their access to medical care, shelter, safety, and economic security.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 11, 2026

Ms. Jayapal (for herself, Mr. Takano, Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Amo, Ms. Ansari, 
Ms. Balint, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Bell, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. Brownley, Mr. 
Carbajal, Mr. Carson, Mr. Casar, Mr. Casten, Ms. Chu, Mr. Cisneros, Ms. 
Clarke of New York, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania, 
Ms. DeGette, Ms. DelBene, Mr. DeSaulnier, Ms. Dexter, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. 
Doggett, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Fletcher, Mrs. Foushee, Mr. 
Frost, Mr. Garamendi, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Garcia of California, 
Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Gomez, Mr. Green 
of Texas, Mrs. Grijalva, Mr. Ivey, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. 
Kamlager-Dove, Mr. Keating, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Larson of 
Connecticut, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Ms. Leger Fernandez, Mr. Lieu, 
Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Lynch, Ms. Matsui, Ms. McBride, Mrs. McClain Delaney, 
Ms. McClellan, Ms. McCollum, Mr. McGarvey, Mr. McGovern, Mrs. McIver, 
Mr. Menendez, Ms. Meng, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Moulton, Mr. 
Mullin, Mr. Nadler, Ms. Norton, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Omar, Mr. 
Panetta, Mr. Peters, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Pressley, Mr. Quigley, 
Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Randall, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Rivas, Ms. Ross, Ms. 
Salinas, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. Scanlon, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Simon, Mr. Smith 
of Washington, Ms. Stansbury, Mr. Thanedar, Ms. Titus, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. 
Tokuda, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Torres of New York, Mrs. Trahan, Mr. Vargas, Ms. 
Velazquez, Mr. Walkinshaw, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Wilson of Florida, 
and Ms. Brown) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on 
Education and Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, 
Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, and 
House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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RESOLUTION

Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop 
and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights to protect and codify the 
rights of transgender and nonbinary people under the law and ensure 
their access to medical care, shelter, safety, and economic security.

Whereas an estimated 1,600,000 transgender adults live in the United States;
Whereas title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.) 
requires equal treatment under the law regardless of sex;
Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed in Bostock v. Clayton 
County, 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020) that Federal protection against 
discrimination on the basis of sex includes protection from 
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity;
Whereas several Federal courts have correctly concluded that discrimination 
against transgender people because of their sex and gender identity 
violates title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et 
seq.), section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
(42 U.S.C. 18116), and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of 
the United States;
Whereas, despite the protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual 
orientation and gender identity, transgender people still experience 
discrimination in--

(1) medical care;

(2) employment;

(3) housing;

(4) education;

(5) lending; and

(6) other basic necessities;

Whereas President Trump has issued several executive orders that attempt to 
unlawfully discriminate against transgender people;
Whereas anti-trans individuals strive to deprive transgender and nonbinary 
people of access to gender affirming care, despite the overwhelming 
consensus of the medical community that gender-affirming care is 
essential, safe, and life-saving health care;
Whereas the provision of best-practice, age-appropriate, gender-affirming health 
care is endorsed by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent 
Psychiatry, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American 
Academy of Nursing, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American 
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of 
Physicians, the American Counseling Association, the American Heart 
Association, the American Medical Association, the American Nurses 
Association, the American Osteopathic Association, the American 
Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the 
American Public Health Association, the Endocrine Society, the National 
Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health, the Pediatric 
Endocrine Society, the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, the 
World Medical Association, and the World Professional Association for 
Transgender Health;
Whereas transgender and nonbinary people--

(1) face significant barriers to legal recognition of their truest 
selves on government-issued documentation and identification that reflects 
their gender;

(2) experience disproportionately high rates of poverty, homelessness, 
violence, and suicide due to discrimination and persecution; and

(3) are especially vulnerable to violence and abuse and are often 
deprived of gender-affirming resources and health care while detained in 
jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers; and

Whereas transgender and nonbinary people--

(1) make unique, valuable contributions to American society and culture 
worth honoring and celebrating;

(2) have existed throughout history across the globe, demonstrating 
resilience, bravery, and authenticity; and

(3) are parents, siblings, children, chosen family, and friends 
deserving of human dignity and support: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
(1) the Federal Government has a duty to protect the rights 
of transgender and nonbinary people by implementing a 
``Transgender Bill of Rights'' that includes--
(A) ensuring that transgender and nonbinary people 
have equal access to services and public accommodations 
that align with their gender identity by--
(i) amending the Civil Rights Act of 1964 
(42 U.S.C. 2000a et seq.) to prohibit 
discrimination on the basis of sex, including 
gender identity and sex characteristics, in 
public accommodations and federally funded 
programs and activities;
(ii) expanding the definition of public 
accommodation to address the full range of 
places and services that members of the general 
public utilize;
(iii) explicitly clarifying that it is 
illegal to discriminate on the basis of sex, 
including gender identity or sex 
characteristics, in public accommodations and 
services on religious grounds; and
(iv) amending Federal law to ensure that it 
protects students from discrimination based on 
sex, including gender identity and sex 
characteristics, thus guaranteeing the right of 
students to participate, free from 
discrimination, including harassment and sexual 
violence, in all areas of school life, 
including in classes, extracurriculars 
(including athletics), access to facilities, 
and other school activities;
(B) clarifying and reaffirming the right to bodily 
autonomy and health care for transgender and nonbinary 
people by--
(i) enforcing prohibitions against 
discrimination in the provision of health care 
on the basis of sex, including on the basis of 
actual or perceived gender identity or sex 
characteristics;
(ii) eliminating unnecessary governmental 
restrictions on the provision of, and access 
to, gender-affirming medical care and 
counseling for transgender and nonbinary adults 
and adolescents;
(iii) ensuring that health care providers 
that follow recognized standards of care for 
transgender and nonbinary people are not 
targeted for criminal or civil penalties, or 
for professional discipline;
(iv) protecting children against forceful 
removal from supportive homes;
(v) protecting providers of gender-
affirming care, reproductive health care, and 
abortion health care from threats and acts of 
violence related to their work;
(vi) expanding access to competent health 
care providers serving transgender and 
nonbinary patients, including by recruiting and 
training more health care providers to provide 
appropriate care;
(vii) expanding telehealth access to 
provide patients in rural and other underserved 
locations better access to health care 
services;
(viii) codifying the right to abortion and 
reproductive health care, such as 
contraceptives and assistive reproductive 
technology, for everyone, including transgender 
and nonbinary people;
(ix) banning the performing of 
nonconsensual surgeries that violate medical 
ethics and the human rights of intersex 
children and infants;
(x) banning conversion practices and other 
abusive and torturous pseudo-medical treatments 
that are overwhelmingly rejected by every major 
medical organization as lacking efficacy and 
carrying significant risks of harm;
(xi) protecting providers of gender-
affirming care from specious consumer and 
medical fraud accusations based on their 
provision of medically necessary care; and
(xii) ensuring that the Sexual & Gender 
Minority Research Office of the National 
Institutes of Health is re-opened and remains 
operational;
(C) ensuring transgender and nonbinary people can 
care for themselves and their families by fully 
codifying the judgment of the Supreme Court in Bostock 
v. Clayton County, 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020) by--
(i) eliminating hiring and employment 
discrimination and workforce exclusion by 
amending title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 
1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.) to explicitly 
clarify that employers may not discriminate on 
the basis of actual or perceived gender 
identity or sex characteristics;
(ii) amending the Fair Housing Act (42 
U.S.C. 3601 et seq.) to explicitly clarify that 
it prohibits all forms of sex discrimination, 
including on the basis of gender identity or 
sex characteristics; and
(iii) amending the Equal Credit Opportunity 
Act (15 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.) to explicitly 
clarify that it prohibits all forms of sex 
discrimination, including on the basis of 
gender identity or sex characteristics;
(D) providing accessible avenues for legal 
recognition of transgender and nonbinary identities and 
guaranteeing full participation in civil life by--
(i) eliminating Federal gender 
identification requirements on government 
documents that are unnecessary to determine the 
identity of the holder or are otherwise 
irrelevant to the purpose of the document;
(ii) eliminating burdensome barriers to, or 
prohibitions on, updating sex and names on 
passports, Social Security cards, and other 
forms of Federal Government identification and 
records, permitting, where possible, changes on 
self-attestation alone;
(iii) requiring that an ``X'' marker be 
available on Federal Government identification 
and records that require gender;
(iv) requiring States to permit voters to 
update their name and gender on their voter 
registration and vote on the same day of 
Federal elections;
(v) making explicit that existing Federal 
statutes prohibiting sex discrimination in jury 
service also prohibit discrimination based on 
gender identity and sex characteristics;
(vi) eliminating anti-trans bias in the 
immigration system, including the asylum 
process, by requiring culturally competent 
training for adjudicators and ensuring that 
gender identity and sex characteristics are not 
used to the detriment of individuals in 
immigration proceedings;
(vii) ensuring that dedicated and capable 
transgender and nonbinary servicemembers can 
continue to serve proudly and openly in the 
Armed Forces;
(viii) requiring the TRICARE program (as 
defined in section 1072 of title 10, United 
States Code) and the Department of Veterans 
Affairs to pay for gender-affirming health 
care; and
(ix) requiring a review of military 
discharges for transgender and nonbinary 
veterans, and reclassification of discharge 
status and code, to ensure the patriotism and 
sacrifices of transgender and nonbinary 
servicemembers is respected above partisan 
politics;
(E) strengthening the safety of transgender and 
nonbinary people by--
(i) investing in community services to 
prevent intimate partner, family, and community 
violence against transgender and nonbinary 
people and expand services for transgender and 
nonbinary survivors;
(ii) investing in mental health services 
and suicide prevention programs designed for 
transgender and nonbinary people;
(iii) ensuring robust regulations and 
procedures that affirm that claims for 
immigration relief or asylum based on 
persecution related to gender, sexual 
orientation, gender identity, and sex 
characteristics are protected grounds in the 
context of asylum adjudications;
(iv) ensuring housing assignments for 
transgender and nonbinary people in government 
custody are based on their safety needs and 
providing individual housing determinations 
that incorporate assessments by qualified 
caseworkers and the assessment of the 
individual of their safety needs;
(v) prohibiting involuntary solitary or 
administrative confinement of a transgender or 
nonbinary individual because of their gender 
identity; and
(vi) exploring policies and practices that 
improve the safety of transgender and nonbinary 
individuals incarcerated in jails, prisons, and 
immigration detention facilities and ensuring 
that those populations of transgender and 
nonbinary individuals have access to gender-
affirming care, appropriate services, and 
commissary items consistent with their gender 
identity; and
(F) actively enforcing the civil rights of 
transgender and nonbinary people by all government 
agencies including by--
(i) requiring the Attorney General to 
designate a liaison within the Civil Rights 
Division of the Department of Justice whose job 
is dedicated to advising on and overseeing 
enforcement of the civil rights of transgender 
and nonbinary people; and
(ii) appropriating the funds necessary to 
fully staff and support the enforcement of 
these rights across agencies;
(2) to carry out the goals in this resolution, Federal 
agencies must collect gender identity and sex characteristics 
information on a voluntary, confidential basis solely for 
equity and public health purposes in key Federal surveys;
(3) the Federal Government must make an ongoing commitment 
to the rights of transgender and nonbinary people;
(4) policies concerning transgender rights must be led and 
informed by transgender communities, in particular Black and 
Indigenous women who face heightened risk of violence, poverty, 
discrimination, and other harm due to their intersecting 
identities; and
(5) the actions listed in this resolution are only the 
first steps toward transgender equality.
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