![]() ![]() The House bill is mirrored by SB 304, which has the exact same text. Importantly, while many other bills deliberately want to discriminate against transgender people, HB 1664 seeks to provide protections against people who have detransitioned on the basis of gender identity. This bill in particular would allow people who suffered “medical injury” as a result of gender transition to seek damages in court- something that was already called medical malpractice. Meanwhile, bills securing rights for people who detransition, such as HB 1664 have been introduced. ![]() This bill would prevent each school district deciding for itself whether such a program is appropriate for its classrooms or not. Social-emotional learning is aimed at inculcating empathy for others and management of one’s emotions ( ). HB 1374 ( ): a ban on social-emotional learning in schools.No mention is made for parents sharing the data online or elsewhere once obtained. HB 1308 ( ): allows parents access to a their child’s library records, this bill could be used as a method for parents to prohibit reading of certain books, such as The Color Purple.This bill establishes an age verification method for access to certain materials. HB 1256 ( ): an establishment of penalties and liabilities for publication and distribution of pornographic material to minors at school libraries.The bill defines gender as being that which is identified on a person’s birth certificate. HB 1205 ( ): A ban on transgender female minors participating in women’s sports.HB 1312 ( ): requires parental notification of any course material which discusses “sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression.” Prohibits school districts from adopting policies preventing school employees from notifying parents about their child’s well being.This bill defines a person’s sex as being that which is stated on their birth certificate. HB 1356 ( ): a prohibition on using preferred names and/or pronouns for individuals at school.A bill, in part, aimed towards perceived surgeries of transgender minors. HB 1011 ( ): a prohibition on male genital mutilation with the exception of circumcision with parental consent.Rather than seeking to codify a standard of what male and female is and is not, the bill directly takes aim at transgender individuals indentifying with a different gender than they were assigned at birth. A transgender person who has received surgery or surgeries of their choice may be recognized, or they may not. This bill seeks to classify “male and female sexes” based on biological gender, a term which isn’t particularly well-defined. HB 396 a holdover bill from January 2023 which is making its way through the legislature once more starting on January 5. Both Darmouth-Hitchock and Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts have set an age limit of 18 for when people can undergo such procedures. As of this writing, no provider in NH is providing such a service to minors. On January 4, the legislature passed HB 619, a bill which aims to ban gender-affirming surgery for minors. While at times that effort has slowed down, it has not stopped. ![]() Bills submitted this year echo those submitted last year, which were part of a nationwide effort to deny transgender people access to medical care, use of public restrooms, and disallowing playing on sports teams that conform with their gender identity, among others. Soon after the New Year came around in 2024, Republican lawmakers in the New Hampshire state government submitted a series of bills aimed at fundamentally ending all legal recognition of any kind for transgender individuals. ![]()
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