HF 5128 Summary

• Creates the Minnesota Women's Bill of Rights, establishing definitions of sex-based terms for all Minnesota statutes, administrative rules, and official agency policies.

• Defines "sex" as biological sex designated at birth (male or female only), and specifies that sex does not include gender identity or other terms conveying a person's sense of self.

• Permits the state to provide separate single-sex environments for males and females in athletics, living facilities, locker rooms, bathrooms, domestic violence shelters, and rape crisis centers where sexes are not similarly situated biologically.

• Requires public schools, school districts, agencies, and state instrumentalities that collect vital statistics related to sex for antidiscrimination or public health purposes to identify each person as either male or female as defined in the bill.

• Directs the revisor of statutes to replace the word "gender" with "sex" throughout Minnesota statutes when used as a standalone term, excluding phrases such as "gender identity."