A coalition of congressional Democrats unveiled a resolution titled the “Trans Bill of Rights” last week to push back against the “fear” and “hatred” propelled by those who believe that one’s sex corresponds to their biological sex.
As written by Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., in a press release, the resolution aims to direct the federal government to expand transgender access to public “services” and “accommodations.”
The bill language adds that it aims to ensure that “transgender and non-binary people” get “equal access” to “services and public accommodations that align with their gender identity. The bill also states that transgenders should be allowed to access “the full range of places and services that members of the general public utilize.”
Although the bill does not explicitly specify what public “accommodations” the public generally uses, and the Democrats who introduced the bill did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment, policy experts such as Jay Richards, vice president of social and domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation, believe that the “public accommodations” in question could include women’s bathrooms, locker rooms and personal spaces.
“I’m certain that’s what the drafters intend,” Richards told The Daily Signal.
Other provisions include allowing taxpayer-funded transition surgeries and abortion, and requiring institutions to recognize one’s gender identity, or lack thereof, as a legitimate biological gender, which Richards considered to be harmful.
“The bill would promote experimental, body-altering interventions for minors,” Richards stated.
Laura Hanford, senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation, echoed Richard’s remarks and told The Daily Signal that by allowing gender-affirming care to take place, this “Bill of Rights” could further harm children.
“They will continue to try and portray the administration’s actions as excessive in an effort to make themselves look like they are protecting those they are, in fact, harming, she said. “This ‘Bill of Rights’ is an effort to continue to claim that erasing woman and harming children is a ‘right’ to protect rather than an excess to abolish.”
In November, the Department of Health and Human Services described gender-affirming care as “sex-rejecting procedures” that pose “medical dangers” to “children.”
However, even though the Trump administration has fought to eliminate transgender ideology and gender-affirming care procedures, other conservative policy experts, like Hanford, say that those actions could be reversed under a Democrat administration.
Hanford added that the Democratic Party is “lavishly funded” by the LGBTQ+ activist lobby, adding that “these groups have not abandoned their goals.”
“While the Trump administration has secured tremendous gains such as gender clinics pausing sex-rejecting procedures, these can readily be reversed in a new administration,” Hanford said.
Since his election, the Trump administration has introduced policies to reverse the progressive transgender ideology pushed by Democrats under President Joe Biden’s administration.
In Feb. 2025, President Donald Trump signed the “Keeping Men Out Of Women’s Sports” executive order, which banned biological males from competing in federally funded women’s sports.
Trump argued that allowing men who identify as women in women’s sports is a direct violation of Title IX of the Education Act of 1972, which states that educational institutions receiving federal funds cannot deny women an equal opportunity to participate in sports.
Weeks before, the House passed Rep. Greg Steube’s, R-Fla., Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which was sent to the Senate for a vote.
“Men have no place in women’s sports,” Steube wrote in a statement. “Republicans have promised to protect women’s sports, and under President Trump’s leadership, we will fulfill this promise.”
State lawmakers have also continued to push back in recent years.
In 2025, Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., who was then a state senator, introduced legislation to ban LGBTQ+ flags from being flown on government property, including schools.
Just recently, lawmakers in Illinois introduced legislation that would designate “transgenderism” as a “mental illness.”
