; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Sec. 3. Definitions. Sec. 4. Documenting and responding to bias-motivated violence against LGBTI people abroad. Sec. 5. Sanctions on individuals responsible for violations of human rights against LGBTI people. Sec. 6. Combating international criminalization of LGBTI status, expression, or conduct. Sec. 7. Foreign assistance to protect human rights of LGBTI people. Sec. 8. Global health inclusivity. Sec. 9. Immigration reform. Sec. 10. Engaging international organizations in the fight against LGBTI discrimination. Sec. 11. Representing the rights of United States LGBTI citizens deployed to diplomatic and consular posts. 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The norms of good governance, human rights protections, and the rule of law have been violated unconscionably with respect to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) peoples in an overwhelming majority of countries around the world, where LGBTI people face violence, hatred, bigotry, and discrimination because of who they are and who they love. (2) In at least 68 countries, or almost 40 percent of the world, same-sex relations and relationships are criminalized. Many countries also criminalize or otherwise prohibit cross-dressing and gender-affirming treatments for transgender individuals. (3) The World Bank has begun to measure the macro-economic costs of criminal laws targeting LGBTI individuals through lost productivity, detrimental health outcomes and violence, as a step toward mitigating those costs. (4) Violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity are documented in the Department of State’s annual Country Human Rights Reports to Congress, which show a clear pattern of human rights violations, including murder, rape, torture, death threats, extortion, and imprisonment, in every region of the world based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In many instances police, prison, military, and civilian government authorities have been directly complicit in abuses