As these bills move from this committee to Judiciary and Commerce for further hearings, we will continue to advocate for our LGBTQ+ communities.
Every Minnesotan deserves access to safe, effective, and supportive mental health care.
PASSED: SF4706 and SF4707
Today, the MN Senate heard two bills in the Health and Human Services Committee that will continue to protect Minnesotans from the harmful and discredited practice of so-called conversion “therapy,” and will ensure that survivors can seek damages where harm was committed.
In Minnesota we don’t just show up for our neighbors when it’s easy, we show up because it’s the right thing to do.
Join us again tomorrow morning as we return to support bills that will help Minnesota respond to the shifting policy landscape around conversion "therapy."
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Each time they were stopped.
Our champions and allies didn’t just vote no, they stood up to speak out for our communities.
We thank all those who protected and uplifted our Two Spirit, trans, nonbinary, and intersex friends and neighbors; and the hard-fought protections that benefit all of us. 2/3
When harmful legislation comes to the floor, our allies and champions stand up.
Today, in the Minnesota legislature, harmful policies were rushed forward with little notice in both chambers to limit gender affirming care and to challenge inclusive policies for transgender students & athletes. 1/3
Together we can continue to support survivors and all members of our LGBTQ+ community and ensure access to safe, effective, and supportive health care for all of us.
LGBTQ+ Minnesotans should be celebrated and supported for who they are. While the professional regulation of this practice may change as a result of this ruling; it’s still on all of us to ensure our friends, neighbors, and communities are educated about the harms of these discredited practices.
Survivors still have tools to take legal action against unethical treatments, and we are working with the authors of our state’s bipartisan 2023 ban on this harmful practice who have already introduced legislation that will strengthen the ability of survivors to sue.
This ruling limits the ability of the state to regulate these harmful practices; but it does not make a practice that is rejected by every major medical association legal nor does it change the fact that the discredited practice of conversion “therapy” is harmful, wrong, and unethical.
Minnesotans know that conversion “therapy” is anything but therapy. We have spent years working to protect vulnerable members of our state from harmful practices through state and local regulations designed to ensure that all can trust the medical care they are seeking is safe and effective.
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules 8-1 in Chiles v Salazar which challenged Colorado’s ban on the discredited practice of conversion “therapy.”
"When you build connection with everyone, no one is unequal." Watch the eighth and final interview in our Queer Joy in Resistance series now!
We are disappointed that the DOJ is pursuing legal action against our state and its policies; but we are confident that the state of Minnesota will continue to work to protect the rights of all our students.
OutFront will continue to stand up for our communities, and support our schools.
While arguments about fairness and safety are a big topic of cultural debate, there is no indication that trans athletes are universally at a greater advantage–and the government’s policies would have dramatic impacts on students–including on cisgender students who would face greater scrutiny.
MN law clearly protects trans people in education and public accommodations including in bathrooms, locker rooms, and, yes–sports.
These policies have been fully in place since 2014, and Minnesota continues to be a leader for participation by girls and women at all levels of sport.
The federal Department of Justice has sued the state of Minnesota, alleging that our state has violated Title IX by allowing transgender athletes to compete alongside their peers, and allowing trans students to use bathrooms, locker rooms, and other facilities free from discrimination.
All of us should have the right to make essential decisions about our bodies, lives, and futures.
The only people who should be involved in navigating these important and complex decisions are patients, their families, and the expert health care providers who serve them. Not politicians.
This administration has repeatedly attempted to exceed its authority over the rights of LGBTQ+ people and to remove essential support for our community. Today’s decision will help to stabilize a challenging landscape, despite continued threats to care access in Minnesota and across the country.
After legal challenges from MN’s Attorney General and a coalition of state partners, an Oregon judge shared yesterday that he will be vacating that declaration–removing a major legal threat to care providers.
Bottom line: Gender affirming care remains safe, legal, and protected here in Minnesota.
In December of 2025 the Secretary of Health and Human Services issued a flurry of actions targeting gender affirming care and care providers, including a declaration claiming best practice care was “neither safe nor effective.”
"What I really like about our community is that things feel possible. There's a very small gap inbetween the effect that you want and the effect that you can make." Watch the seventh interview in our Queer Joy in Resistance series now!
"Find that thing that's for you...figure out how to immerse yourself in there, because that is when you will find your community and find people who are more like-minded...it's just finding the right community for us." Watch this sixth interview in our Queer Joy in Resistance series now!
"I love that my community...cares a lot about other people whether those people are like them or not like them, and want to see their point of view or just their world." Watch the fifth interview in our Queer Joy in Resistance series now!
"Building collective belonging and collaboration requires deep connection...it requires some kind of consistency. Showing up over and over again, taking small steps to build respect or trust with other people." Watch the fourth interview in our Queer Joy in Resistance series now!
Today, it was announced that Children’s Minnesota plans to pause medical gender care services for youth patients starting in March.
Read our full statement at outfront.org/news.
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Be sure to follow along for action alerts and opportunities to rally with our communities as we advocate for policies that ensure all Minnesotans can live full and authentic lives.
As we head towards the start of Minnesota’s legislative session in just a few weeks, we expect to hear more about this topic at a state level.
We’re ready.
If the last few weeks haven’t made it clear enough: Minnesota is a place of welcome and inclusion and we will continue to stand up for ALL of us.
We have successfully held back efforts to enact discriminatory and exclusionary policies before. We don’t expect this moment to be any different.
In Minnesota, inclusion is not just the right thing to do—it’s the law.
Through more than a decade of fully inclusive policies, Minnesotans of all genders are able to play and compete with their friends—and we are proud of it.