HR3708-119

What This Bill Does

The No Place for LGBTQ+ Hate Act is a statutory override and funding prohibition aimed at specific executive orders. It states that executive orders targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex individuals, and related or successor orders that similarly harm or limit LGBTQI+ rights, have no force or effect. It uses Congress's Article I powers, including the Spending Clause, to bar federal funds from implementing, administering, enforcing, or carrying out those orders. The named orders are Executive Order 14168 on federal interpretation of sex, which the bill says mandates discrimination against transgender, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people, threatens LGBTQI+ protections in employment, education, housing, and health care, and denies appropriate federal identity markers; Executive Order 14183 on reinstating and expanding the military ban on transgender servicemembers; Executive Order 14187 on agency action to prevent transgender health care for adolescents under 19; Executive Order 14201 on barring transgender female students from sports teams aligned with gender identity; and Executive Order 14190 on requiring schools to deny the existence of transgender people. A savings clause says nothing impairs constitutional authority granted to the President.

Who Benefits and How

Transgender people benefit because the bill nullifies and defunds orders affecting identity documents, health care, school recognition, and military service. LGBTQI+ students benefit from protection against federal implementation of sports and school-recognition orders. Transgender servicemembers benefit from the repeal and funding bar for the military ban order. Civil-rights organizations benefit from a statutory hook to challenge implementation of related successor orders.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Federal agencies must stop using funds to implement, administer, enforce, or carry out the listed executive orders. Defense Department personnel offices must account for the funding bar on transgender military-service restrictions. Education Department staff must stop enforcing school sports or school-recognition directives covered by the bill. HHS program staff must stop implementing directives restricting transgender health care for people under 19.

Key Provisions

• Repeals force and effect of executive orders targeting LGBTQI+ individuals.
• Prohibits federal funds from implementing, administering, enforcing, or carrying out the listed orders.
• Blocks orders involving federal sex interpretation, transgender military service, youth health care, school sports, and school recognition.
• Extends the prohibition to related or successor executive orders that similarly harm LGBTQI+ rights.
• Preserves constitutional authority granted to the President.