Transgender Bathroom Laws By State
These laws prohibit transgender people from using bathrooms and facilities-such as locker rooms, shower rooms, changing rooms, and other sex. Thirteen states have bans on transgender people accessing bathrooms in schools that align with their gender identity. More than a dozen states prohibit trans people from using bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity in public buildings.
Nearly 10 years after North Carolina's HB 2 caused nationwide boycotts, 19 states have enacted restrictions on what bathrooms transgender people can use. A bathroom bill is the common name for legislation or a statute that defines access to public toilets by gender or transgender identity. Bathroom bills affect access to sex-segregated public facilities for an individual based on a determination of their sex as defined in some specific way, such as their sex as assigned at birth, their sex as listed on their birth certificate, or the sex that.
A transgender activist clasps her hands while Kentucky state senators vote in 2023 on a bill restricting gender-affirming care for minors. So far in 2025, at least eight states have passed or expanded laws restricting which bathrooms transgender people are allowed to use. Bathroom bills (bathroom access laws) have become a controversial issue in the United States, sparking debates surrounding transgender identity and rights.
Bathroom access laws aim to regulate the use of public restrooms and other facilities in line with an individual's "gender of birth", rather than their identified gender. Some states and municipalities have adopted provisions addressing the use of restrooms by transgender people, with some permitting transgender individuals to use public restrooms that match their gender identities and others prohibiting it. Government actions in a variety of states and localities, including North Carolina and Houston, Texas, brought this issue to the fore beginning in 2015 and.
"Bathroom bills" restrict access to public bathrooms, changing rooms, and other facilities based on gender. They often force people who are transgender or non. Prohibits transgender people from using the restroom consistent with their gender identity 13 States.
