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2026 Bills to Watch

Advanced to House: SCR 1006 (-)

This ballot measure, if passed, would deny transgender and gender-diverse students access to affirming facilities and restrict teachers from using a student’s chosen name or pronouns.

Advanced to Senate: HCR 2003 (-)

This ballot measure, if passed, would impose rigid sex-based rules for school sports and private athletic spaces, specifically targeting transgender and gender-diverse students. It would also expand Arizona’s existing trans sports ban beyond school athletics to include intramural and intercollegiate sports.

Advanced to House: SB 1015 (-)

This law would punish doctors for providing health care to transgender youth, creating extreme legal liability for health care providers. Doctors could be forced to stop providing care out of fear of lawsuits, making it nearly impossible for families to access medically necessary care in Arizona.

In Committee: SCR 1038 (-)

This ballot measure, if passed, would put strict and harmful restroom rules into law, banning trans and gender-expansive people from using the correct facilities.

In Committees: SB 1095 / HB 2085 (-)

Prohibits a physician or other health professional from providing gender-affirming healthcare or referrals for those procedures to those under 18 years of age. Prohibits the use of publicly funded coverage for such healthcare for those under 18 years of age, and prohibits providing it in state or local government facilities or by government-employed health professionals. Health professionals who violate these prohibitions would be subjected to professional discipline, private action, and enforcement by the Attorney General.

In Committee: SB 1099 (-)

Adds barriers to accessing gender-affirming care through required disclosures/forms, record-keeping, and legal exposure if any step is missed.

In Committee: HB 2589 (-)

This bill would criminalize allowing a minor to view drag performances or enter a venue where one is taking place. Violations would be classified as a Class 4 felony, a designation typically reserved for serious violent and property crimes.

In Committee: HB 2217 (+)

Sexual orientation and gender identity are added to the list of protected classes in statutes prohibiting discrimination in places of public accommodation, employment, and housing. Public entities must designate all single-occupancy restroom facilities as gender-neutral restrooms.

Vetoed: SB 1002 (-)

Prohibits any employee or contractor of a school district or charter school from addressing, referring or identifying a student under 18 by a pronoun that differs from their biological sex, or a name other than the first or middle name on the student’s official school records.

Pro-LGBTQ+ Laws

  • Nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ foster parents based on sexual orientation only
  • Nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people in employment, housing, and public accommodations
  • Nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ state employees
    • However, the state explicitly excludes transition-related healthcare in their state employee health benefits
  • Protections against discrimination for LGBTQ+ youth in the child welfare system
  • Hate crime law covering sexual orientation only

Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws

Youth & Families

  • Ban on gender-affirming surgery for LGBTQ+ youth effective March 2023
  • No nondiscrimination or anti-bullying laws/policies covering LGBTQ+ students
  • State curriculum not required to be LGBTQ+-inclusive
  • State law requires parental notification of LGBTQ+-Inclusive curriculum and allows parents to opt children out
  • No conversion therapy ban covering LGBTQ+ youth
  • No second-parent adoption for unmarried couples
  • No adoption nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ parents
    • State permits state-licensed child welfare agencies to refuse to place and provide services to children and families, including LGBTQ people and same-sex couples, if doing so conflicts with their religious beliefs
  • No gender identity nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ foster parents
  • State family leave policies do not include inclusive definitions of spouse/partner/parent/child

 

Legal & Documentation

  • Gay/trans panic defense is not banned
  • State requires proof of sex reassignment surgery in order to change gender marker
  • No gender neutral options on driver’s license or birth certificates
  • Hate crime law does not cover gender identity

 

Discrimination

  • No nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people in credit/lending
  • Broad religious exemption law which weaponizes religion as justification for LGBTQ+ discrimination
  • No state Medicaid policy coverage for transgender people