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92% of Anti-LGBTQ Bills Fail Every Year. Here Is How Advocates Stop Them.

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The Number Nobody Reports

Advocates have defeated an average of 92% of proposed anti-LGBTQ bills every year for the past 15 years. Hundreds of bills are introduced each session. The ones that pass get covered. The ones that die in committee do not.

Latest: The fight does not stop at the statehouse. On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court upheld trans sports bans in Idaho and West Virginia, moving the battle to the courts.

92% of anti-LGBTQ bills are defeated. Every year. For 15 years.

That is not luck. It is organized, sustained advocacy in every statehouse in the country.

Florida: 4 of 5 Stopped

Equality Florida’s 2026 Resistance Report documents the results:

Pride Flag Ban (HB 1089) — stopped. Over 1,000 Floridians emailed lawmakers before the session began. The bill never received a single hearing in either chamber.

Don’t Say Gay or Trans at Work (HB 641) — stopped. The bill would have shielded employees from accountability for intentionally misgendering trans coworkers. It died without a floor vote.

Police State Bills (HB 743 / SB 1010) — stopped. These bills would have given the Attorney General authority to investigate and sue school staff under vague standards, adding felony penalties to care that was already prohibited. They did not advance.

Anti-DEI in Local Government — neutralized. The bill passed but had all of its anti-DEI language removed through committee amendments. The underlying framework remains, but the specific harms were stripped.

One bill passed: a local government diversity spending restriction that drew bipartisan opposition, including from Republican senators. One out of five.

Kansas: 117 Pages

In May 2026, a Kansas judge struck down the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors in a 117-page ruling. The legislature had overridden Governor Kelly’s veto to pass it. The court questioned the credibility of the state’s own expert witnesses and found the ban likely violates the Kansas Constitution.

18 Shield Law States

While 27 states ban trans youth healthcare, 18 states and DC have passed shield laws that explicitly protect access to gender-affirming care. Washington passed data privacy protections preventing public records requests from being used to target trans residents.

Montana’s supreme court ruled trans people have a right to accurate IDs.

The map is not one-directional. States are restricting rights and protecting them at the same time. The protections receive less coverage.

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