Whereas an estimated 1,600,000 transgender adults live in the United States; Whereas title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ( 42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq. ) requires equal treatment under the law regardless of sex; Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020), that Federal protection against discrimination on the basis of sex includes protection from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity; Whereas, despite these protections, transgender people still experience discrimination in— (1) medical care; (2) employment; (3) housing; (4) education; (5) lending; and (6) other basic necessities; Whereas State lawmakers introduced more than 300 bills attacking the rights of LGBTQI+ people, and transgender people in particular, in the first 6 weeks of 2023; Whereas the right of transgender and nonbinary people to seek lifesaving gender-affirming care is under threat across the United States; Whereas the provision of best-practice, age-appropriate, gender-affirming health care is endorsed by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Nursing, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Physicians, the American Counseling Association, the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, the American Nurses Association, the American Osteopathic Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Public Health Association, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Endocrine Society, the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health, the Pediatric Endocrine Society, the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, the World Medical Association, and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health