
2020
State Equality Index
Housing
This state does not prohibit housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Employment
This state does not prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Public Accommodations
This state does not prohibit discrimination in public accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
School Anti-Bullying
This state does not have a law that addresses harassment and/or bullying of students based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Education
This state does not have a law that addresses discrimination against students based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Transgender Healthcare
This state does not have a ban on insurance exclusions for transgender healthcare.
Gender Marker Updates On Identification Documents
State has no laws or policies that facilitate gender marker updates on driver’s licenses or birth certificates.
Anti-Conversion Therapy
This state does not protect youth from so-called "conversion therapy."
Hate Crimes
This state has a law that addresses hate or bias crimes based on sexual orientation only. It does not protect on the basis of gender identity.
** On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia that sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination are prohibited under federal sex-based employment protections. Nevertheless, it is imperative that states continue enacting explicitly LGBTQ-inclusive comprehensive non-discrimination laws since it will likely take additional litigation for Bostock to be fully applied to all sex-based protections under existing federal civil rights law. Moreover, federal law currently lacks sex-based protections in numerous key areas of life, including public spaces and services. Lastly, there are many invaluable benefits to localizing inclusive protections even when they exist on higher levels of government. For these reasons, the SEI will continue to only award credit for state non-discrimination laws that expressly include sexual orientation and gender identity. Credit may be awarded if a state has definitively applied Bostock’s reasoning to include LGBTQ people under sex non-discrimination protections.