This bill creates a 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 taskforce 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.

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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 Research Lab at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.

6. A representative of the Technical College System whose duties or expertise
includes protecting the rights of transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender
nonconforming students in the Technical College System or eliminating
discrimination in higher educational programs, policies, or initiatives.

7. A representative of the Department of Children and Families whose duties
or expertise includes expanding access by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming youth to the department's services
or eliminating discrimination in departmental programs, policies, or initiatives with
respect to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender
nonconforming youth.

8. A representative of the Department of Corrections whose duties or expertise
includes protecting the safety of transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender
nonconforming populations or eliminating discrimination in departmental
programs, policies, or initiatives.

9. A representative of the Department of Workforce Development whose duties
or expertise includes expanding access by transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and
gender nonconforming populations to the department's services or eliminating
discrimination in departmental programs, policies, or initiatives.

10. A representative of the Division of Equal Rights whose duties or expertise
includes expanding access by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex,
nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals to the division's services or
eliminating discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex,
nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals in the division's programs,
policies, or initiatives.

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11. One member appointed by the attorney general who is a representative of
the LGBT Bar Association of Wisconsin.

12. Two members appointed by the speaker of the assembly who are
transgender, intersex, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming individuals.

13. Two members appointed by the minority leader of the assembly who are
transgender, intersex, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming individuals.

14. Two members appointed by the majority leader of the senate who are
transgender, intersex, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming individuals.

15. Two members appointed by the minority leader of the senate who are
transgender, intersex, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming individuals.

16. Two members appointed by the governor, one of whom is a representative
of a social service agency that provides services and support to transgender, intersex,
nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals and one of whom is a
representative of Fair Wisconsin.

17. A representative of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin,
appointed by the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of
Wisconsin.