
2020
State Equality Index
Transgender Healthcare
This state bans insurance exclusions for transgender healthcare.
Housing
This state prohibits housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Employment
This state prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Hate Crimes
This state does have a law that addresses hate or bias crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Public Accommodations
This state prohibits discrimination in public accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
School Anti-Bullying
This state has a law that addresses harassment and/or bullying of students based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Education
This state has a law that addresses discrimination against students based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Gender Marker Updates On Identification Documents
This state has laws and policies that facilitate a gender marker update on both driver’s licenses and birth certificates.
Anti-Conversion Therapy
This state protects youth from so-called "conversion therapy."
** 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.