Remove Gender Identity From New Hampshire Statutes

HB 1564 takes a direct and comprehensive approach: it removes the term 'gender identity' from every place it currently appears in New Hampshire statutes. This is not a narrow carve-out or a targeted exemption. It is a wholesale correction of how the state defines and enforces protected categories across nearly every domain of law that touches daily life.

The concept of gender identity as a legally operative category has functioned, in practice, as a mechanism for compelling agreement. Employers, schools, churches, and private citizens have faced legal exposure not for discriminating against a person, but for declining to affirm a particular set of beliefs about human nature. That is a category error in law, and it places serious burdens on those whose faith convictions rest on the biblical truth that God created humanity male and female.

Removing this language from statute does not leave anyone without recourse for genuine mistreatment. Protections based on sex remain in place. What disappears is the legally enforced obligation to treat a person's subjective sense of gender as equivalent to biological reality, an obligation that has been used to override parental rights, open sex-segregated spaces, and silence conscientious objection in schools and workplaces.

For people of faith, this matters because law shapes culture, and culture shapes children. When the state embeds gender identity into statute, it signals that this framework is authoritative and normative. Parents who are trying to raise their children with a clear, grounded understanding of what it means to be human find themselves working against the grain of law itself. HB 1564 would remove that friction.

The American Council supports this bill as a principled act of legislative correction. We believe the law should reflect reality as God created it, and we urge New Hampshire legislators to advance this measure and restore statutory clarity on the fundamental truth of biological sex.