; (ii) eliminating unnecessary governmental restrictions on the provision of, and access to, gender-affirming medical care and counseling for transgender and nonbinary adults and youth; (iii) ensuring that health care providers following standards of care for transgender and nonbinary people are not targeted for criminal or civil penalties, or for professional discipline; (iv) protecting children from forceful removal from supportive homes; (v) protecting providers of gender-affirming care, reproductive health care, and abortion health care from threats and acts of violence related to their work; (vi) expanding access to competent health care providers serving transgender and nonbinary patients, including by recruiting and training more health care providers to provide appropriate care; (vii) expanding telehealth access to provide patients in rural and other underserved locations better access to health care services; (viii) codifying Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), guaranteeing the right to abortion, and codifying the right to reproductive health care such as contraceptives and assistive reproductive technology for everyone, including transgender and nonbinary people; and (ix) banning the use of forced surgery that violates medical ethics and human rights on intersex children and infants; (C) ensuring transgender and nonbinary people can care for themselves and their families by fully codifying the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020) by— (i) eliminating hiring and employment discrimination and workforce exclusion by amending title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ( 42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq. ) to explicitly clarify that employers may not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived gender identity or sex characteristics; (ii) amending the Fair Housing Act ( 42 U.S.C. 3601 et seq. ) to explicitly clarify that it prohibits all forms of sex discrimination, including on the basis of gender identity or sex characteristics