Posted on 02/18/2026 8:30:08 AM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701
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 utilise.”
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.”
Fixed it for them.
I don't follow sports. Please explain.
Taxpayer funded “ transition “ surgery to produce more murderers of innocent human beings.
The “ Democrats “ are on a roll.
Nah.
They already know but in classic fashion, will double down rather than admit they’re wrong.
What do I call myself, a woman who loathes “feminists”?
They do not speak for me.
“What do I call myself, a woman who loathes “feminists”?
They do not speak for me.”
I’m male but I don’t call myself anything, I’m happy to let my life describe me. Rock on!
“those who believe that one’s sex corresponds to their biological sex”
It corresponds to how they were born and are they XX or XY which can never be changed.
Exactly, they say the right is anti woman but they can’t even define what a woman is.
YOU, my friend, are a “Feminist” in the Phyllis Schlafly mode, and that is a high compliment indeed.
It works for me!
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Thank you.
😊
I remember the bumper stickers the local farm girls had back in the late 70s.
Basically it was “Aw. You wear boots, flannel shirts and drive a truck? How cute. ”
Girls out here did “ guy stuff” every day because it needed doing and we never thought twice about it.
That hay ain’t gonna bale itself
😁.
They have the same rights as everyone else , giving a group more is just more insanity
NO!!!!
Being a “nonbinary” is apparently big among Harvard staff. I don’t see how this bill can benefit “nonbinaries”.
The Democrat War on Women continues full steam ahead and unabated.
I knew there was a hidden reason you are awesome. You grew up just like my 4 girl cousins, on a ranch. Little Bad-asses, they would run over to Grandpa’s house barefoot through cactus and rattlers so we could have our “rodeo” on the calves in the corral.
It’s still way up from even a few weeks ago. Markets go up and down, genius. Quitcher bitchin’.
When “their Trans rights interfere with my Constitutional rights, we have a problem
The Mengele bill.
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