GLOBE Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Titus
Introduced
Summary
Advance LGBTQI human rights worldwide. This bill would set a U.S. policy and tools package to reduce violence, discrimination, and criminalization of people based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex characteristics by creating new diplomatic posts, funding, sanctions tools, and immigration changes.
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- People facing persecution and civil society: Would get targeted grants, emergency assistance, technical support, and capacity building through a new Global Equality Fund and a USAID Global Development Partnership, with a focus on historically excluded groups.
- Refugees and asylum seekers: Would treat persecution for sexual orientation or gender identity as membership in a particular social group, repeal the asylum filing deadline, expand Priority 2 refugee processing for vulnerable LGBTQI nationals, and expand access to appointed counsel in some proceedings.
- U.S. government operations and partners: Would create a permanent Special Envoy and a USAID Senior LGBTQI Coordinator, require PEPFAR partners to train on LGBTQI health needs, allow self-selected sex markers on State Department IDs, publish a biannual sanctions list with visa inadmissibility consequences, and require regular reporting and interagency coordination.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
9 provisions identified: 8 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Easier asylum and refugee help
This bill would remove the legal filing deadline for asylum, and it would apply to cases filed before, on, or after enactment. It would treat persecution based on sexual orientation or gender identity as a valid basis for asylum. If you are indigent and ask, a court would appoint a lawyer for covered removal cases at government expense. LGBTQI people from countries that fail to protect them could get Priority 2 refugee processing. If a refugee shares SOGI information with U.S. staff, the State Department would share it with a resettlement agency only with the refugee’s consent to avoid unsafe placements.
Simpler IDs and citizenship for families
The State Department would let you choose the sex marker on passports and consular birth records, including a nonbinary “X”. Within 90 days, it would issue rules clarifying that a biological link is not always needed for a child born abroad through assisted reproductive technology to get U.S. citizenship, if the parent is legally recognized at birth. The bill would also treat a qualifying “permanent partnership” like marriage for this Act, with clear age, relationship, and commitment rules.
More reporting and police training abroad
The State Department’s annual human-rights reports would include laws, discrimination, and violence tied to sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex characteristics. Posts would report incidents, drivers, and responses, and regional plans would include strategies, investigations, and victim support. The Department would track how much aid goes to LGBTQI-related programs and share indicators with the OECD on request. U.S.-supported international law-enforcement academies would teach LGBTQI rights and how to document and prosecute hate crimes.
Stronger U.S. leadership on LGBTQI rights
This bill would create a permanent Special Envoy for LGBTQI human rights at the State Department. It would set up an interagency group, led by the Secretary of State, to coordinate urgent responses, long-term policy, and sanctions advice. USAID would add a Senior LGBTQI Coordinator to guide inclusive development work across the agency.
PEPFAR training and reports on equity
The PEPFAR Coordinator would require all partners to get training on LGBTQI health needs and human rights and set up ways to ensure fair access to services. The Coordinator would promptly tell Congress about obstacles and fixes. Within 180 days, the government would send three reports to Congress on: use of U.S.-provided commodities as evidence for arrests, the effects of partner notification and index testing, and how the Mexico City Policy has affected the global LGBTQI community.
Aid partners must serve everyone fairly
U.S. humanitarian, development, and global health funds would not go to partners that exclude people from services, unless a program has a valid focus on higher-risk groups. Recipients would need to make reasonable efforts to ensure subs comply. If they cannot follow these rules, they would agree to return funds and could face penalties. The State Department would brief Congress every quarter on how it monitors compliance.
More support for U.S. diplomats' families
The State Department would give employees and families more information on LGBTQI issues at posts overseas. It would make every effort to ensure U.S.-supported schools abroad have active nondiscrimination policies, and include LGBTQI-focused school info in post reports and bidding materials. The Department would also push host countries to issue visas and accredit LGBTQI family members. It would send Congress a classified list within 180 days naming countries that refused accreditation in the prior two years and actions taken.
New funds and partnerships for equality
The State Department would create a Global Equality Fund, if Congress provides money, to give grants and emergency help to human-rights groups. The Secretary could also accept private and nonprofit contributions to support the fund’s goals. USAID would launch an LGBTQI Global Development Partnership to back leadership, research, inclusive development, and entrepreneurship with help from donors, companies, NGOs, and universities.
Visa bans for foreign LGBTQI abusers
The President would publish a list within 180 days, and every six months after, of foreign persons tied to severe abuses against people due to sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex characteristics. The list could include a classified annex, with 15 days’ notice to Congress. Listed people and their immediate family would be inadmissible and ineligible for U.S. visas or entry. Any current visas would be revoked under existing immigration law. There would be procedures to remove names and to answer congressional requests within 120 days.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Titus
NV • D
Cosponsors
Cohen
TN • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Casten
IL • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Dean (PA)
PA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Strickland
WA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Schneider
IL • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Jacobs
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Omar
MN • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Moulton
MA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Gottheimer
NJ • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Krishnamoorthi
IL • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Peters
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Davids (KS)
KS • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Brownley
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Castro (TX)
TX • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Lieu
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Kennedy (NY)
NY • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Lynch
MA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Goldman (NY)
NY • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Jayapal
WA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Torres (CA)
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Barragan
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Nadler
NY • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Meng
NY • D
Sponsored 7/16/2025
McGovern
MA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Pocan
WI • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Ramirez
IL • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Huffman
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Garcia (CA)
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Crockett
TX • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Tlaib
MI • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Simon
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Williams (GA)
GA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Johnson (GA)
GA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Balint
VT • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Costa
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Mullin
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Keating
MA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Khanna
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Chu
CA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
McClellan
VA • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Moore (WI)
WI • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Hayes
CT • D
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Amo
RI • D
Sponsored 6/30/2025
Bera
CA • D
Sponsored 7/16/2025
Fletcher
TX • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
DeSaulnier
CA • D
Sponsored 8/15/2025
Quigley
IL • D
Sponsored 10/6/2025
Johnson (TX)
TX • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Cisneros
CA • D
Sponsored 9/3/2025
Sherman
CA • D
Sponsored 10/24/2025
Moskowitz
FL • D
Sponsored 11/17/2025
Harder (CA)
CA • D
Sponsored 11/18/2025
McBride
DE • D
Sponsored 11/21/2025
Horsford
NV • D
Sponsored 12/15/2025
Houlahan
PA • D
Sponsored 12/18/2025
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