This is a good time to talk to your legislators.

Is your legislator having public meetings this Spring? FIC now has a good idea of what bills will be proposed for a vote this legislative session. Print this list and ask your legislator to oppose these bad bills for Connecticut . .

2025 List of Bad Bills & Analysis

Did your legislator vote “no” to protect girls’ sports?  Check out the list and ask your legislator how they voted on the amendment to HB7066 to protect girls’ sports and why.

Abortion and Gender Constitutional Amendment – SJ 35 now heads to the Senate Floor (see how your legislators voted in Committee)- A CT Constitution Amendment that would preempt all state restrictions on abortion and enshrine discrimination against women in preference to gender (i.e. men dressed as women) into the Connecticut Constitution. Family Institute of Connecticut and friends from the detransitioner, “Progressive“, medical, LGB and transexual communities were there to explain the dangers of “gender affirming care” for minors to our legislators on the GAE Committee, including an exchange between Representative Mastrofrancesco and Jamie Reed, Gender Clinic Whistleblower, and insightful questioning by Senator Rob Sampson of a mother who insists her baby was transgender. Oh gee, Jamie’s video feed was mysteriously cut minutes into her testimony!

Gender critical observers from X also captured some of the sad and astonishing testimony by supporters of SJ 35, including the CT ACLU who considers it too difficult to define gender! There was coverage by The Hartford Courant. You can read testimony by FIC’s Director of Public Policy here and take a peek at the 12 hour long public hearing (speaker order). It was not a good look that day with well-heeled doctors insisting that “affirmation” of gender dysphoria with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries were the only path to treat minors and young adults, while simultaneously denying that surgeries were being performed in Connecticut – a lie, since we know that Connecticut has paid for the removal of breasts of young girls as young as 15 to treat gender dysphoria and interventions documented for children under age 17 1/2. Many young people were present that day and the “kids are not alright” – shaking, muttering, clutching their stuffies – “gender affirming care” is harming these kids and this hearing was Exhibit A on why CT needs to do better.

Legislators, it is time to rethink CT’s commitment to “gender affirming care” which sterilizes and mutilates, blocks the emotional and physical development of children who are uncomfortable with their sexed bodies. Everyone please contact your legislators here about this bill.

  • A Constitutional Amendment adding “sex”, as defined, will preempt all state restrictions on abortion (outlined in HB 7213 below).
  • A Constitutional Amendment to add “sex” to the constitution which includes all “gender identity and expression; and related health care” will make it impossible to protect girls against boys playing in their sport or restrict puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for minors in an experimental and misguided attempt to treat “gender dysphoria”.
  • Basic statutory interpretation directs that a more recent Constitutional Amendment will control and preempt conflicting statutes or regulations, including any restriction on abortion.
  • Could void CGS 19a-601 limitations on persons under age 16 requiring counseling. It would preempt all 19a-602 limitations on abortions after “viability” and interfere with any restrictions on who may perform an abortion.

Bill to remove all abortion regulations – (see how your legislators on the Committee voted – a “yea” vote is a vote against current protections for newborns born alive from abortion, conscience protections for persons who do not want to participate in abortion and all reporting requirements for abortion clinics) unable to win so far through the regulatory process in the Public Health Department, HB 7213 was introduced by abortion extremists to remove all regulatory restrictions on abortion including C.G.S 19a-116: informed consent and counseling requirements and their associated regulations sections 19a-116-1 et.al; and the reporting requirements, conscience protections, “infant born alive” protections and third trimester restrictions on abortion in sections 19-13-D54 of the Connecticut Regulations. This is the biggest assault on abortion restrictions in Connecticut since Roe v. Wade. Contact your legislator here about this bad bill. The bill was only amended the morning of the committee vote by the leadership of the Public Health Committee to delete the “infant born alive”, conscience protections and third trimester prohibitions in section 19-13-D54 of the regulations of Connecticut. Those provisions were not part of the March 24 public hearing! View FIC’s written testimony here and learn more details about this awful bill. Watch the Republican A-Team fight (on left in screen shot) for common sense abortion regulations in Connecticut at the Public Health Committee meeting on March 26 (public notice of the bill amended to erase all abortion regulations THAT MORNING – with no exceptions for religious objections!).

  • Eliminating reporting requirements for reporting will hide disproportionate outcomes of abortion on minority populations in Connecticut.  Only 19% of Connecticut’s population is Black & Hispanic, but they account for 57% of all abortions.  
  • Without state conscience exemptions, medical providers including nurses, students and doctors will have fewer protections and may be subject to punishment for not participating in abortion (19-13-D54f).  
  • Connecticut law was enacted in reaction to concerns of infants born alive and being abandoned or experimented on. This 50 year old regulation (19-13-D54) has been and continues to be necessary to protect infants born alive in Connecticut.

Library Porn Bills – SB 1271 (KIDS) (see how your legislators voted in Committee) and HB 7014 (ED) (see how your legislators voted in Committee) Library Bills that prevent parents and members of the community from objecting to sexually descriptive and explicit books in school and public libraries. HB 1271 (lines 173 to 180) creates a cause of action for parents to be sued. Contact your legislator here about this bill. Maia Poet, a young detransitioner also testified against these bills, warning parents about subversive books in school libraries that lead kids into gender transitions and believing they may be born in the wrong bodies. FIC was there for the hearings against these bills and helped facilitate the testimony of experts and concerned parents and community members which can be seen at the Committee on Children’s 9 hour hearing here and the Education Committee’s 12 hour hearing here. View FIC’s written testimony on SB 1271 and HB 7014.

Bringing Kids to CT for Gender Transitions & Abortion – SB 7 (see how your legislators voted in the Committee) these legislators voted “yea” to create a $30 million slush fund 🤑🤑 (sec. 37) and” Safe Harbor Fund” (lines 1049 to 1064) with state administrative resources for free payments to doctors who provide abortions, puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and cross-sex surgeries to treat gender dysphoria on minors and collateral expenses for minors, even under age 16, to come to Connecticut for these procedures. FIC was there for the public hearing along with some gender critical activists and doctors in opposition to SB7. Submit quick written testimony against this bill using “March 24, 2025 hearing date, “oppose” and “SB0007” at this link.

  • Puberty blocking drugs are being used experimentally to “block” a “wrong puberty” – which prevents sexual and mental development and arrests natural maturity and a pathway to naturally overcome gender dysphoria.

Shield Law for Outlaw Gender and Abortion Doctors – SB 1530 (GAE) (see how your legislators voted here and watch the hearing) and HB 7135 (JUD) will protect doctors who break the law in other states using telehealth technology to perform and/or solicit “gender affirming care” procedures and abortions, even on minors. You will remember that a hearing was held last year to make a “technical fix” to this law, to repair a drafting error made in the middle of the night when legislative leaders added “gender affirming care” in a 2022 budget implementer bill. This was a subversion of the democratic process, but set that aside.

On March 24, 2025, two committees held hearings on bills to make the “technical fix” and also add protections for surrogacy, in-vitro fertilization, cryo-preservation of gametes (egg freezing) and everything related to “fertility” (HB 7135, line 7 & HB1530, line 19) illegally performed or solicited out-of-state and additional protections for providers who break the law in other states (HB 1530, lines 40-41). The statute is untested and broad, meant to facilitate providers in Connecticut who solicit children to come to Connecticut for gender transitions and abortions. But it could do more, possibly protecting doctors who perform abortions and “gender affirming care” illegally in other states, but flee to Connecticut to avoid prosecution (HB 1530, lines 40-41). It creates hurdles for those children to sue providers for that illegal solicitation and creates special causes of action against those kids for even filing a lawsuit (HB 1530, lines 42-44) – it is an abhorrent law to protect the genital mutilating doctors in private practice, but also gender clinics in Connecticut at Yale, Middlesex Hospital, Hartford Hospital and more.

The abortion and gender extremists in Connecticut love the killing of nascent life and mutilating & sterilizing children so much that they are willing to protect others who break the law to do it. This is an outrage and would be considered a disreputable use of state resources if under another administration – but this is 2025, where these proposals are lauded and approved. Friends and members of Family Institute of Connecticut were there to testify against these bad bills from the perspective of young people who have been hurt by “gender affirming care” and many of our members also spoke out against abortion. Some even made Channel 8 news! We need you to submit written testimony as well. Please follow these links to submit your own written testimony against these awful bills. You can read FIC’s testimony here. Listen to Representative Dubitsky call “gender affirming care” what it really is during the Judiciary Committee vote . . . mutilation of children: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxTV8UvZvCSO5Qe7Uhaho83ZB05n7RQpqd

What can you do?

Your legislators want to hear from you as we head into May – when most of the voting this session will occur. This is a critical time to contact your legislators. 1) Discover who they are and sign up for their newsletters. 2) Print the list of bad bills and ask your legislators where they stand. 3) Follow up with an e-mail asking them to oppose these bad bills. A vocal few (or many) can make a difference. Thank you!