Transgender WorldAnti-trans legislation and the architecture of a coordinated campaign of elimination: a data-driven analysis of the most sustained legislative assault on a minority population in modern American history.
The Ratchet
In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targeting gender identity.2 That is a more than fourteen-fold increase in total anti-LGBTQ legislation and a thirty-one-fold