SB 459 (2026)
Protect separations in sports, jails, treatment centers based on biological sex
This bill did not become law.
Requires school athletics and the associated use of locker rooms be designated based on a participant's biological sex as assigned at birth. Athletes would have a right to sue schools. The bill does not apply to grades K-5. The bill also requires that inmates in New Hampshire state prisons be housed separately on the basis of inmates' biological sex as assigned at birth.
The Senate rewrote the bill to add an exception to the state law against discrimination, allowing segregation based on biological sex in sports, jails, prisons, hospitals, treatment centers, and similar facilities.
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