SB 443

This bill creates the Transgender Equality Task Force. The task force is

required to study the legal and societal barriers to equality for transgender, intersex,

nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals in Wisconsin and provide

recommendations to the governor and the legislature on how to ensure the equality

and improve the lives of those individuals. The recommendations must address the

following areas:

1. Health care.

2. Long-term care.

3. Education in primary and secondary schools.

4. Higher education.

5. Housing, including the prevention and reduction of homelessness among

transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming youth and adults.

6. Employment.

7. Criminal justice, policing, and prisons.

8. Any other issue the task force considers relevant.

The task force consists of the following members:

1. A representative of the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance whose duties

or expertise includes insurance services and policies as applied to transgender,

intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals.

2. A representative of the Department of Financial Institutions whose duties

or expertise includes financial services and policies as applied to transgender,

intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals.

3. Three members appointed by the secretary of health services, one of whom

is a representative of the Department of Health Services whose duties or expertise

includes protecting the rights of transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender

nonconforming individuals or eliminating discrimination in departmental

programs, policies, or initiatives; one of whom is a physician who specializes in

transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming health issues; and one

of whom is a member of the Wisconsin Transgender Health Coalition.

4. A representative of the Department of Public Instruction whose duties or

expertise includes protecting the rights of transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and

gender nonconforming students or eliminating discrimination in educational

programs, policies, or initiatives.

5. Two members appointed by the president of the University of Wisconsin

System, one of whom is a representative of the University of Wisconsin System whose

duties or expertise includes protecting the rights of transgender, intersex, nonbinary,

and gender nonconforming students in the University of Wisconsin System or

eliminating discrimination in higher educational programs, policies, or initiatives

and one of whom is a representative of the Trans Counseling Advocacy Research and

Education Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.